I listened to a song called Light and Day by the band Polyphonic Spree. This song is written for vocals, guitar, flute, harp, keyboard, and flute, and trumpet. This song has been represented in various movies (Breakfast Club) and TV shows (Scrubs).
I chose this song because it is structured in an unusual way for a Western pop song from American artists. Instead of ABA structure with a chorus, the song has a colotomic structure. In colotomic structure, there are specified instruments to mark off established time intervals. In the gamelan percussion ensembles of Java and Bali, for instance, timed intervals may be marked by the entrance of different instruments. In this piece, the entrances are made in progression by guitar, violin, harp, vocal (male then female), flute, then keyboard in time-spaced intervals. To mark the ending of the piece, a trumpet is introduced. Using an example from popular culture, like this piece, can provide an entry point into the colotomic structures of musics from other parts of the world.
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