The Passenger (arr. Jan-Hendrik Herrmann) by Iggy Pop Sheet Music for Choir at Sheet Music Direct

Product Details

Artist Iggy Pop

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Iggy Pop Ricky Gardiner

Arranger Jan-Hendrik Herrmann

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 12

Arrangement Choir

Publisher Jan-Hendrik Herrmann

Level 2

Product ID 994645

Genre Pop A Cappella

Instruments Choir

Product Description

In an interview with The Guardian in 2016, Pop said "The Passenger" was partly inspired by touring with David Bowie: "I'd been riding around North America and Europe in David's car ad infinitum. I didn't have a driver's licence or a vehicle". The song captures this feeling in five verses with just a view changes of the lyrics and the iconic repeated la-la-la chorus driven by the endless swinging pulse of the song. All four parts get to sing the melody. Sometimes sopranos are split. Pulsating patterns give the arrangement a constant forward momentum that only stops for a view bars of a calm homophonic section. Although the parts are easy to sing the task is to keep the momentum going and still have the dynamic changes and the changes of sounds built a constant musical dramaturgy leading to the end.

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