Waaa Waawaa Part 1 Analysis

Piece 5 begins by giving a very somber tone that drew from me a bucket of melancholia that echoed deeply into my ears with each down stroke as the melody is poured out slowly into my soul. Suddenly, there is hope a rising sound crashes into me like a wave as each feathering high note begins to call out to me but still with a touch of profound sadness. The crashing of a drum then begins and it thunders into me a purpose, creating a drive as the intensity of it begins to increase along with the tempo, only to die back down into its familiar melody. Listening to this piece is like being hit by a hurricane. The music is slow and deep on the fringes of the tune and intense and mighty near its middle leading to “the eye of the storm”; following this
Two different woodwind instruments pump out a bass and treble melody that harmonizes and seesaws. The bass accompaniment churns out an A hum-A hum-A hum for nearly the whole song, while the consistently higher wind instrument’s melody goes on in a Waa Wawawa Wa waawaa wa waawa rhythm. These notes are played in a slow fashion that is both long and drawn out and somber in tone. These notes are much softer than either the percussion introduced in the crescendo or the high strings featured in the second peace and both become background instruments during this section. The string notes are sweeping high, and taunt and sound out much more cheerfully than the previous notes going aaah hmm aaahmm ahmmaaahmmaahmm ahmahmahmha ah ha ah hmmhaa. The Crescendo comes in powerfully backed by the beat of pounding bass drums and then snares too that lead up to a powerful and high climax featuring the strings on center stage. Finally the original Waa-ing melody is reintroduced, only to fade back out into the distance as slowly as it came
The music in verse A is slower paced and has a steady wobbling rhythm. The verse that connects them together, B, is a much more upbeat and complicated melody that progressively intensifies and then becomes nearly silent. Then, during the second A Verse, the same pattern is repeated but it fades out, progressively becoming quieter until the piece is fin.
While this table is not to scale of the dynamics of the melody of the song, it does give a visual description of the experience of listening to it. You can clearly see that while the two sections of A are nearly identical, you will notice that the second time A is played it is much quieter and although it makes the same movements, ultimately will never reach the great crescendo that makes up verse B. The beat becomes more complex during this crashing finale that is placed in nearly dead center of the work, largely because of the increased number of instruments and the overlap of