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The song A Place So Perfect could particularly suit a singer whose voice has an ear-catching quality able to make the unaccompanied bars special.
The composer has to sought to find new ways to write music in a “Celtic” style. Again, there are no accidentals anywhere, but this time there is a central section with a different key signature. The notes sung all belong to the pentatonic scale made of the notes common to both key signatures. Other key-signature notes are to be found in the light dissonant accompaniment.
There are intrumental interludes, the sung melody has the form A1B1A2B2A3B3B4, and the words are a sonnet that has the rhyme-scheme ABBA-BCCB-CDDC-DD, with one of those rhymes coming mid-word.
In the demonstration audio file, the vocal part is played on a violin, and the accompaniment on an electric piano.
The sheet music gives the vocal part and a light, somewhat dissonant, accompaniment that is fairly easy to play on a keyboard instrument.
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sheet music.
The song can be sung unaccompanied, with each instrumental interlude replaced with a rest whose length the singer may choose. In the following audio file, a violin plays the unaccompanied air; in a live performance, longer rests can work.
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sheet music.
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