Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Formal Analysis Help....

Hi all,
So our formal analysis is due tomorrow and I thought I'd get a head start tonight with my piece. I think I got it right but maybe I misheard something so I'd like to put the basics of it up here a bit early so if you notice a discrepancy, especially in the harmonic analysis, you can let me know before I turn in the finished one tomorrow evening. Thanks! Here's what I have. The youtube of the video/music is below.

I started with the lyrics and analyzed the overall form of the piece:
Eminem-“Lose Yourself” from the 8 Mile Soundtrack

Introduction
Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity
To seize everything you ever wanted-One moment
Would you capture it or just let it slip?

A-Verse
Yo, His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy
There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti
He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready
To drop bombs, but he keeps on forgettin

What he wrote down, the whole crowd goes so loud
He opens his mouth, but the words won't come out
He's choking, how everybody's joking now
The clock's run out, time's up over, bloah!

A-Verse
Snap back to reality, Oh there goes gravity
Oh, there goes Rabbit, he choked
He's so mad, but he won't give up that
Easy, no
He won't have it , he knows his whole back's to these ropes
It don't matter, he's dope

He knows that, but he's broke
He's so stagnant that he knows
When he goes back to his mobile home, that's when it's
Back to the lab again yo
This whole rhapsody
He better go capture this moment and hope it don't pass him

B-Refrain/Chorus
You better lose yourself in the music, the moment
You own it, you better never let it go
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo

B-Refrain/Chorus
You better lose yourself in the music, the moment
You own it, you better never let it go
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo

A-Verse
The soul's escaping, through this hole that it's gaping
This world is mine for the taking
Make me king, as we move toward a, new world order
A normal life is boring, but superstardom's

close to post mortem
It only grows harder, only grows hotter
He blows us all over these is all on him
Coast to coast shows, he's know as the globetrotter
Lonely roads, God only knows

A-Verse
He's grown farther from home, he's no father
He goes home and barely knows his own daughter
But hold your nose cause here goes the cold water
His don't want him no mo, he's cold product

They moved on to the next schmoe who flows
He nose dove and sold nada
So the soap opera is told and unfolds
I suppose it's old partner', but the beat goes on
Da da dum da dum da da

B-Refrain/Chorus
You better lose yourself in the music, the moment
You own it, you better never let it go
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo

B-Refrain/Chorus
You better lose yourself in the music, the moment
You own it, you better never let it go
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo

A-Verse
No more games, I'ma change what you call rage
Tear this roof off like 2 dogs caged
I was playing in the beginning, the mood all changed
I been chewed up and spit out and booed off stage

But I kept rhyming and stepwritin the next cypher
Best believe somebody's paying the pied piper
All the pain inside amplified by the fact
That I can't get by with my 9 to 5

A-Verse
And I can't provide the right type of life for my family
Cause man, these food stamps don't buy diapers
And it's no movie, there's no Mekhi Phifer, this is my life

And these times are so hard and it's getting even harder
Trying to feed and water my seed, plus
Teeter totter caught up between being a father and a prima donna
Baby mama drama's screaming on and
Too much for me to wanna

A-Verse
Stay in one spot, another day of monotony
Has gotten me to the point, I'm like a snail
I've got to formulate a plot fore I end up in jail or shot
Success is my only option, failure's not

Mom, I love you, but this trailer's got to go
I cannot grow old in Salem's lot
So here I go is my shot.
Feet fail me not cause maybe the only opportunity that I got

B-Refrain/Chorus
You better lose yourself in the music, the moment
You own it, you better never let it go
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo

B-Refrain/Chorus
You better lose yourself in the music, the moment
You own it, you better never let it go
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo

Outro
You can do anything you set your mind to, man

The Overall Structure of the piece is:
Introduction(a1)-A-A-B-B-A-A-B-B-A-A-A-B-B-Outro(a2)-in d harmonic minor

The verse: Consists of a pedal D with a i-iv(second inversion)-i-V

Refrain consists of Pedal D in the base with i-iv (second inversion)-V (over pedal D making the major 7th between the D and leading tone really great) followed by the i once again.

This is what I have...thoughts would be really helpful!




1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Guidelines are available on the course website under "Syllabus & Lecture Notes."