Quick Analysis: "Far Too Late" from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cinderella
There hasn't been much new theater to criticize in a while, so here’s a quick low-level musical analysis of “Far Too Late,” from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella, released this morning . A little surprise for you all. Here is Far Too Late from my new @ALWCinderella , performed by @CarrieHFletcher in an empty Her Majesty's Theatre. - ALW pic.twitter.com/e3ZP4ftahF — Andrew Lloyd Webber (@OfficialALW) September 13, 2020 First off, this is a sad ballad in a major key. Bb Major. The verse starts with one two-bar phrase, repeated, slightly varied, three times. First, it’s a slightly elaborated outlining of the tonic chord, with the odd passing tone. Chord tones highlighted in blue. The second time through the phrase takes us down to the minor vi chord, pretty standard move, establishes us as sad. The repeated phrase is almost the same in its outlining of the chord, but now it overshoots the top note, and has to come back down. So we've got a non-chord tone on a stressed bea