Analysis of The Duchess score - Portman

This presentation provides a detailed analytical account of The Duchess and End Titles, Mistake of Your Life, Six Years Later, and Never See Your Children again from Rachel Portman’s score to the film, The Duchess. The presentation covers analytical points of interest within each piece regarding the melody, harmony, texture, tonality, rhythm, metre, tempo, sonority, and dynamics to aid students in their ability to answer essay questions. Also covered is a chronological account of analytical points of interest within each music to help prepare students to answer listening questions on these works. The presentation also includes contextual information surrounding the work, including links to works of a similar style. The style of presentation is so that it could easily be converted into flashcards for revision after the presentation has been used for teaching and score annotations for example.