Chord Twins

One song that I found that follows the I-V-vi-IV progression is All of the Stars by Ed Sheeran. This song is in the key of B Major. I discovered this song had this chord progression by first playing the chords on my piano while humming along to the chords. I played the chords at different tempos to try and see if I could think of a song that wasn't in the Axis of Awesome's 4-Chord Song. It took me quite some time to figure it out, but I made this connection in my brain that I had heard these chords somewhere else. I started to hum the melody to All of the Stars while playing the chords, and even though it sounded slightly different, overall I found that it does have the chord progression once I played the first verse of the song with the I-V-vi-IV progression. All of the Stars has multiple elements to it so it was hard to hear the chord progression at first but by focusing only on the piano part I was able to figure it out.

Link to Song w/Lyrics:

Sheet Music:

Listening Journal #3

Paradise - Coldplay

Texture: Polyphonic

Timbre: Aerophone (Human Voice), Electranophone, Membranophone (Drums), Chordophone (Piano, Guitar, Violin) Ideophone (Bells or maybe the triangle)

Meter: 4/4 (Duple Simple)

Tempo: Adagio (It has a slow tempo)

I'm not sure if Paradise has syncopation or not. It certainly sounds like there are accents on the DA DA DA DADA DA DA DA DA part, but it is hard to tell.

* Here is the sheet music to Paradise below *

Listening Blog #2

America - West Side Story

America, the song from the musical (in this case the film version) West Side Story, is a good example of a hemiola. I can tell it has a hemiola because the song starts off in 6/8 time, then there is a shift in the piece (a hemiola) that makes it seem like the rhythm goes from 6/8 to 3/4. In the example below the piece starts off with 6 eighth notes and in the second measure 3 quarter notes are used make it seem like 3/4 time (triple simple).

Song Analysis- Of Monsters and Men

King and Lionheart - Of Monsters and Men

Meter: duple simple

Tempo: Moderato

Timbre: Aerophone (human voice), Chordophone, Membranophone

Texture: Homophonic