Music Analysis of Your Precious Smile by Eden Fox

Your Precious Smile is the music that Eden Fox composed in 2016. It first record in the album of “Stream Indie/Indie-Folk – Autumn/Fall 2016”. The composer of this music is Eden Fox, a French electronic music composer. Your Precious Smile is an electronic dance music (EDM), it usually uses for the place like bar, pub, prom. This type of music use for dancing, making the party funnier. This type of music composed in the present time, most of the music use the electronic synthesizer, some natural sound, and the electronic devices to compose. They usually don’t have specific chords.

Pitch

Water effects are the sound that made of electronic devices, and there’s no pitch in this sound.

Piano

From 0:00 to 1:08, the sound of piano had a middle pitch. Then it changed higher when the synthesizer become louder. Until 1:42, the piano sound is higher than normal. Start from 1:42, the sound of piano turned back to middle pitch.

Electronic Synthesizer

There’s no pitch in electronic synthesizer since it’s undefined. There’s only dynamics for the synthesizer.

Vocal Sound

During the time period of 0:17 to 0:33, the vocal sound’s pitch is about in the middle. The vocal sound’s pitch is about in the middle during the time period of 0:51 to 1:45. The vocal sound is exactly the same with last two when it’s 1:53 to 2:08.

Drum

Drums are the unpitched percussion instrument, which means that there’s no pitch inside this instrument.

Snap Finger

The sound of snapping fingers didn’t have the pitch because they don’t have tunes. Which means they are one unpitched percussion instruments.

Rhythm

The whole sheet of music has a normal speed. Although this is a kind of EDM, it’s still in the remix of ambient chill music. So, this music gave people a style of relax, and that’s why this music is not too fast. During the middle of the music, which is 1:08 to 1:43, the music become faster and changed into the speed of medium fast.

The piano in this music is actually replay the same part, and since the tempo of music is not too fast, the piano is also having the middle speed.

There’s no rhythm in the part of electronic synthesizer because it only appeared a while at the same time.

The vocal sound was a little faster than normal speed, which is medium fast. The vocal sound’s speed is same speed during the whole part of music.

It started with medium speed during the time period of 0:48 to 1:08, but then it’s getting faster when it’s 1:08 to 1:43.

Snap Finger Sound

The snap finger sound’s speed is same during the time period (0:33-1:08), which is about medium speed. But then it’s getting faster with the music during the time of 1:08 to 1:43.

Dynamics

Since it’s a type of special effect, it’s not a major melody. The water effects in this music is about p, which means soft.

The piano start with mf because it’s the major melody at first, which means medium loud at the beginning (0:00). But then it changed into mp when it’s 1:08, which means medium soft. After 35 seconds, which is 1:43, piano’s sound become the major melody and louder, which is same as the beginning.

The electronic synthesizer showed the crescendo (>), which is getting louder during the time period of 0:15 to 0:19. Same as 0:31 to 0:35. The synthesizer showed loud when it’s 0:50 to 2:08, since it’s the major melody at that time, it becomes f, which is loud.

At the beginning (0:17 to 0:33) of vocal’s part, it represents one of the major sounds in music, so it’s f at that time. But then it changed into second major melody at 0:51, so it become softer, which is mp at that time. Then it changed back to f during the time period (1:53-2:08). Which means it becomes major melody again.

Drum is the local accompaniment in this music, the only dynamics it has during the whole sheet of music is the p, which means soft.

Snap finger sound is also an accompaniment in this music. And it’s dynamics are mp during the appearance in music it has.

<2>Timbre

1. Water effects (0:00-0:21): This is a type of special effect that use for music composing. It was made by recording the sound from water, and it usually use for accompaniment of EDM.
2. Piano (0:00-2:08): Piano is one of the instruments that can be seen in daily life, it usually uses for accompaniment of music. But in this music, piano is use as one of the major melodies.
3. Electronic Synthesizer (0:15-0:19, 0:31-0:35, 0:50-2:08): Electronic synthesizer is a type of electronic instrument that use to make up different sound and remix. Electronic Synthesizer usually uses for electronic music.
4. Vocal Sound (0:17-0:33, 0:51-1:45, 1:53-2:08): Vocal sound is the sound that made by human, usually it’s the main melody of the music. But in this music, vocal sound is also used for accompaniment.
5. Drum (0:48-1:43): Drum is one of the instruments that can be seen in daily life. In this sheet of music, drum was used for accompaniment and set the tempo of music.
6. Snap Finger Sound (0:33-1:43): Snap finger sound is the sound that made of electronic devices, it is also use for accompaniment in this music.

Texture

The texture of music is homophonic. Since there’s only one to two major melodies at the same time, the rest of melodies become accompaniment. But during the middle part (1:08-1:43) of music, the texture of this song changed into polyphonic. Polyphonic is a type of texture which multiple major melodies appear at the same time, and that’s what happened during the time period of 1:08 to 1:4Vocal Sound, electronic synthesizer, and piano exist at the same time for major melodies.