Bohemian Rhapsody Free Sheet Music
Agathe Thies
This is not, as I discovered, how the sheet music handles it. Every instance I could find of sheet music online has the downbeat before the "is", almost in imitation of the famous motif in Beethoven's Fifth Symphony:
Incidentally, if not for Freddie's count-in, this would make an excellent argument for my original interpretation of the opening "is" as a pickup against the sheet music. If a pickup were involved, it would explain the nine eighth-note distance between the two "is" onsets while allowing a simple 4/4 for the first measure.
The third line is another one with nine eighth-notes which reflects the 5/4 commonly found in the sheet music once you don't have to worry about the initial eighth-note rest. Metrically, this follows the same 3+2+2+2 grouping of the first line.
So where does that leave us? The common sheet music is clearly incorrect. There are a couple of notation decisions that could go either way and there's an open question of whether to bother conveying something like a 3+2+3 explicitly or just leave it implicit in a 4/4 measure.
Bohemian Rhapsody is a composition by Freddie Mercury (arr. Alan Fernie). In the Obrasso webshop are the Sheet Music for Brass Ensemble with the article no. 17339 available. The sheet music is classified in Difficulty level C (medium). More Music for entertainment for Brass Ensemble can be found using the flexible search function.
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