Billy's Soliloquy

Billy's Soliloquy is half sung / half spoken in places. What musical term describes this technique?

What musical is Billy's Soliloquy taken from?

• Show Boat

• Carousel

• Phantom of the Opera

• Les Miserables

The introduction features prominent dissonance including:

• Bmajor, Eflat

• A7 - Gm

• Bm9, E9flat5)

When Billy contemplates a son, we hear frequent motifs played by the trumpet called:

• Funfairs

• improvisatory passages

• Virtuosic ventures

• Fanfares

'Old Man' is emphasised with what dissonant interval?

Sometime the melody, in the first section, has wide melodic leaps. This might be referred to as:

• angular

• consonant

• dissonant

• conjunct

The opening section features frequent changes of tempi which might be representative of:

• Billy's love of drama

• Billy's broken metronome

• Billy's fickle character

'My boy, Bill' features what prominent interval?

• Perfect 4th

• Perfect 5th

• Octave

• Minor second

The melody for 'My Boy, Bill' is doubled by what orchestral instrument?

• Cello

• Clarinet

• Violin

• Oboe

'pot bellied, baggy eyed' features a descending sequence and what prominent rhythm?

• Triplet quavers

• triplet crotchets

• Dotted quaver - semiquaver

• Sustained semibreves