Theme Song Analysis Of 'Let It Go'

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According to what I understand a theme song is a song that appears more than once in a film/movie. The theme song I will focus on is, “Let it go,” In the frozen Disney movie. The song writers behind this theme song are Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez When in the process of composing this song Robert Lopez and Kristen Lopez took under consideration the vocal range of Idina Menzel during composition. They took their inspirations from other Disney films such as the little mermaid and beauty and the beast together with some of the contemporary artists such as Lady Gaga and Adele. The theme song of frozen is played at the climax of the movie when Elsa decides to show her powers, causing her to run away from her home till the part where …show more content…

I thought that in the song this happened when else sings “don’t let them in, don’t let them see...” it shows her moving away from the harmonic centre. This fits with the mood of the song because as the song progress the mood changes since her perception of her current situation is changing and so is her emotional state changing too. When you move away from the stable configurations you create tension and energy (Reddit). This was evidently seen in the song as it progresses everything changes mood wise and emotionally speaking and even the scales change too. As the chorus comes along the mood changes from gloomy to happy and the minor harmonic centre changes to the major harmonic centre. This is evidently seen even in the lyrics when she says, “don’t let them in, don’t let them see…” then it later culminates with, “let it go, let it go.” The music really fits with the transformation because at this point she is telling her feelings through the song and this would be phrasing the …show more content…

Between the first verse and the chorus the song moves from minor to major, gets rids of the lower range notes that were mainly found in the first verse then It utilizes a faster and more playful piano harmony that created a lighter and a liberated feel into the chorus unlike the heavy and grounded feel that was in the first verse. So the music is mirroring Elsa’s actions, expression and

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