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Queen A prophet s song analysis
Queen – A prophet’s song

Background – The band had artistic space given to them from the record label, was from their third album, after a loss leading first album.
Mercury himself was from a very artistic background, exposed to classical music and high end art from early age, one partner he had was most famous ballet dancer in the world. High end upbringing, mixed race – Persian/zanzibar
High end art supported by the record label.
Classical music inspired, long development of the music not one repeating section, see Germanic development. Multi tracking had been invented 7 years ago, being explored.

Lyrics –
Wordcloud – seer/storm/mortal/bough/dowry/heed/hell/knowx22/wise/purge/fortune/
Dramatic. Drama influenced, playwright style? Shakesperian?

Music -
Reharmonization chords – Asus4 over bflat / asus4 / Fadd9 / Gsus2 / F$minor / Gsus2 / DmajAdd11
This is Dissonance, none triadic harmonies
These harmonies are syncopated, ending on an offbeat,
Metric modulation – two rhythms overriding each other, specific polyrhythm,
Two rhythms find common number, eg. ¾ beat over 4/4 = 12 reset point.

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