Poor Unfortunate Soul-natas

Summer Oh, Human Rights, CC’21

While listening to this piece, which is in ternary form, I pictured the plot of a Disney movie. The A sections made up most of the story and were lighter, focusing on the hero in a major key. Meanwhile, the B section transitioned into a minor key with richer instrumentation, which I associated with a villain, since villains often are more interesting and complicated. Particularly, the dynamics of the B section reminded me of this scene with Ursula, as she goes between loud, dramatic singing to making snide comments and tricking Ariel. The repeated motifs in both sections reflected how something light and promising in the A section, or being a human for Ariel, can be just as deceiving and dark in the B section, or used to take over the world by Ursula.