Bach movement 3
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- Created on: 01-04-19 09:20
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- 3rd movement- allegro assai
- Structure
- Ritornello form
- Opening ritornello (1-5)
- 1st episode (25-42)
- 2nd ritornello (43-45)
- 3rd ritornello (60-72)
- 3rd episode (73-90)
- 4th ritornello (90-93)
- 4th episode (94-116)
- 5th ritornello (117-141)
- Ritornello form
- Style
- Gigue
- 9/8
- Dance like characteristics
- triple time metre
- running quavers
- Regular 4 bar phrasing at start of the opening ritornello
- Fugal texture adds to the sense of this movement being a fast and furious galloping hunt
- Melody
- Opening anacrusis a reminder of the 1st movement
- The subject uses 3 distinct patterns; each of 3 quavers
- Falling scale (also in sequence, and inversion)
- Featuring a lower auxiliary note
- Rising triad
- 1st episode (25-42)
- Solist
- Arpeggio figures and scales
- Solist
- special bariolage string technique displayed (105-116)
- Open e-string with the stopped note played on the a string in rapid succession
- Stopped notes rise in intervals as the pattern progresses
- Harmony
- A minor (tonic key)
- The subject and countersubject are wholly diatonic
- The answer is identical to the subject but in E minor (dominant)
- Harmonic rhythm is largely one per bar
- Leaping octaves in bass part (21-22)
- Bar 60 second violins in parallel 6ths
- Whilst soloist hovers on inverted dominant pedal notes
- 2nd violins double a third below 1sts (69)
- Harmony at (82) outlines a cycle of 5ths
- Am-Dm7-G7-C7-Fmaj7-Bm7-/dim5
- Tonality
- A minor (1-4)
- E minor (5-8) (dominant)
- A minor (9-12) (tonic)
- D minor,G major (13-14) (modulatory passage
- C major (15-18) (relative major)
- A minor (19-20) (tonic)
- D minor (21)(subdominant)
- A minor (22-24) (tonic)
- Texture
- Unlike a fugal opening the subject and countersubject are announced together above a supporting bassline
- Violins double the subject in unison (69)
- Contrapunctal texture
- Structure
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