Elfman, Batman Returns, Pt. II Birth Of A Penguin

Question 1

Starting key
What motif is used?

Answer 1

Dm
Penguin motif, altered version, augmented, violins

Question 2

What element is brought back from pt. I?
How does the texture change from pt. I

Answer 2

Rising & falling arpeggios, common throughout
Increases with synth choir & a bass ostinato

Question 3

When & how is the Batman theme played?
What happens after this?

Answer 3

When actor name appears
On horns
Trumpet fanfare

Question 4

Bars 11-20:
Key change
What is syncopation
What pedal is heard

Answer 4

Bflat m
Play off beat
Tonic throughout section

Question 5

When does the Batman theme return for the second time?
On what

Answer 5

12-15
Over accomp

Bassoon & clarinet (low wind)

Question 6

How is rhythmic diminution played in bar 17?

Answer 6

Batman theme goes from 4 bars to 2 beats

Question 7

What instruments are playing in between each other in bar 19?

Answer 7

Batman theme
Brass

Question 8

Bar 20:
Time sig
What chord does the Batman theme end on?
What plays over the theme?
How is the final beat slowed down?

Answer 8

5/4
Gflat/Bflat
Ascending violin arpeggio
Trumpets in Bflat

Question 9

When is the climax?
What chord is played?

Answer 9

21-51 when title appears
Ff C chord

Question 10

What ostinato is introduced in bar 25?
What plays the motif?

Answer 10

Military-like quaver triplet
Passed around instruments

Question 11

What first appears in bar 48?
When is this heard again?

Answer 11

Falling 3rd in vocal part
55

Question 12

52-84:
What happens in screen?
What chord is played?
What instrument has a key shift?
What key does it shift to?

Answer 12

Pram starts to slow
Dflat7 b
Brass
Chromatic shift to F#m (but with #6th)

Question 13

57-62:
What creates an unpredictable element?

Answer 13

Music follows 3, 2 bar phrases

Question 14

Section end, bar 62:
What key does the section end in?
What does the triplet motif change to?
What uses the falling 3rd pattern?

Answer 14

Aflat
4 semi quavers (seems faster)
Batman theme

Question 15

What plays the triplet motif in bar 75, 76, 77?

Answer 15

Trumpets & tuba
Horns
Trumpets

Question 16

How is the mood settled from bar 51?

Answer 16

Long >

Question 17

85-96
What chord is played?
What ostinato is played?

Answer 17

Open 5th
Snare drum

Question 18

When is a long peddled note played in the final section?
On what note?

Answer 18

85-92
B

Question 19

What is the final bar?
What playing technique is used?
On what instrument?
What chord is played?

Answer 19

97
Flutter tongue
Flute
Open chord of C# & G

Question 20

What musical device is used throughout?

Answer 20

Fragmentation ( taking & using a small part of a melody)