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[Sh6498]

What sort of awesome, examiner's-eye-catching words do you guys use to describe the character, rhythm, melody etc. of a piece?

[keltingmeith]

For the analysis, it's less having good words, and more having many words. For example, a thick texture could also be described as dense, heavy, "like a train", etc.

This is not an excuse to get all of these out at once, of course, but because they all have little nuances that make them slightly different. For example, consider this song. The texture starts off very dense, but it's not exactly "heavy" or very "thick" otherwise. However, as the dynamics increase, so does the texture, and it transitions into something I would call "heavy" by the chorus.