Happy Days

Tone Colour:

-Main vocals (male)-main melody the whole of the theme song except for when the flute takes over

-Drum kit-accompaniment

-Backup singers (male)-counter melody

-Keyboard-accompaniment

-Bass guitar-accompaniment

-Flute-main melody in the small time it plays (0.33)

Texture:

-The texture is homphonic; melody and accompaniment

-The texture begins quite thick with all singers, drums and bass guitar in straight away

-As the dynamics increase, the texture thickens with the keyboard in

-In the chorus, the texture changes a little as all the instruments stop for a few seconds while all singers keep singing. this happens 8 times. 

-After this variation the flute is added which again thickens the texture

-The texture variation occurs again but this time the bass and the keyboard  continue to play with the singers. again this pattern is repeated 8 times, with slight difference on the 3rd, 5th and 7th bars

-All instruments and singers are then in for the ending with a small crescendo being played. the common pattern, a.k.a the chorus is also the rhythmic pattern used as the outro of the theme

Duration:

-The tempo is quite fast

-The time signature is common time (4/4)

-At 0.13 the backup singers sing the main theme for the TV show and at 0.32 the flute plays this same rhythm

-At 0.34 clapping hands is apparent. they clap twice on beat 2-& and once on beat 4. 

-Although the drums are accompanying the main melody, they still play many of the rhythms that the vocals play, example at 0.50; it hits the drums on the same beat as the singers sing