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Composer Toydora analyzes Ryuichi Sakamoto's "A Flower Is Not A Flower" main theme (first 16 bars).
Questions and comments are welcome in the comments section.
1:22 Analysis begins.
2:12 Analysis of chord progression.
15:59 Analysis of voicing.
[Ryuichi Sakamoto]
One of Japan's leading composers.
He has an academic background and has achieved success not only in commercial music such as film music but also in art music such as experimental music and pure music.
During the YMO era, he became popular even on TV appearances and was called "Professor."
He is also known as a social activist and continued to work for peace and anti-war efforts.
~Overall impression~
[Rhythm]
- Extremely simple and completely monotonous.
→ This highlights the seductiveness of the chords.
[Melody/Harmony]
- The melody is unbelievably simple, and lacks assertion.
→ The use of appoggiatura is masterful in creating an alluring melody line that begins and ends with tension. Very seductive.
- The chord progression is a catchy standard progression. However, it progresses persistently with inversions while the root remains off.
→ An unbelievable II-V chord progression, "IIm9/III - V7/IV," with a fourth inversion that is not normally used, appears.
- The bass line repeats a progressive sequence smoothly.
→ Moving in the opposite direction while ignoring any limited progression. This is probably intentional.
- The voicing is very precise.
→ Since there are so many inversions, the sound collapses if the voicing is incorrect.
→ They don't try to balance it out with perfect fifths and selectively omit the fifth note.
[Expression]
- It is filled with challenges to existing rules and hierarchies.
→ It clearly rejects basic chord progressions.
→ It rejects limited progressions.