To the music-oriented peoples!

[xoder]

So I have two clips that exemplify two elements I really enjoy in music, and they're both from the same song ("Take it Back" by the Barenaked Ladies on their new album Barenaked Ladies are Me). I wish to know what the names of the following elements are, assuming they have them!

First, what is the piano doing in this clip? [162KiB Ogg Vorbis Quality=0]
And second, what is it called when the vocals tell you what the music's about to do? [92KiB Ogg Vorbis Quality=0]

Do not fret if you do not know the answer. If you don't have it, I'll end up going to lj_genie and/or Ask Metafilter.

All clips © and (P) 2006 Desperation Records. All rights are still reserved to them. The above files are clips, reduced in quality, and for non-profit educational purposes under the Fair Use doctrine (which hopefully applies to Canada, where Desperation Records and BNL are based).

Comments

[faboo.livejournal.com]

the first's really simple arpeggios (playing the notes of a chord individually. generally sounds very nice `cause the notes in a chord are supposed to sound very nice together :)

the second is word painting (music the feels/sounds like what the lyrics are saying)

ps. edits thinks your oggs are text files
pps. you can log into edits?!

[xoder.livejournal.com]

Thanks much!

Re: PS: I'll yell at Alex in a sec
Re: PPS: Hellz yeah!

[xoder.livejournal.com]

He just added application/x-ogg. xiph.org says it should have application/ogg, but this should work better in the interim.