Play the Game
Writer:
Freddie Mercury
Year:
1980
Voices:
Women's four part
Ranges:
Tenor: F4 - E flat 5
Lead: B flat 3 - E flat 5
Bari: B flat 3 - B flat 4
Bass: D flat 3 - G4
This is arrangement is the outcome of a request to produce a single-song version of the arrangement I did of this song in a medley for the Harmunichs. Consequently a lot of the material of the chart matches that one exactly. Though not as exactly as one might imagine, as it turns out that certain characteristic details of the original arrangement only work in the context of the emotional arc created by the combination with another song.
Still the Harmunichs' rendition will give you a good idea of the style and feel of it, if not the overall narrative shape.