Dowland; Flow My Tears
- Created by: CharleyGleeson
- Created on: 01-05-16 15:19
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- Dowland
- Performing Forces
- Domestic performance
- Voice range is 9th
- Vocals and lute
- Bass viol can be used
- Texture
- Contrapuntal
- 5/6 notes
- Little imitation
- Melody
- Extremes on compass avoided
- Most notes between G and C
- Falling scalic figure in bar 1
- Ambivalence of minor key
- Harmony
- Root and first inversion
- Descending 4th
- Phrygian cadences
- Fasle relations
- Suspensions
- 2 bar dominant pedal
- Tierce de Picardie
- Tonality
- A minor
- Aeolian inflections
- B section begins in C major
- Rhythm and Metre
- Simple quadruple time
- Bar 19 is 3/2
- No two bars have the same rhythms
- Bar 5,7,8 repeated 22-24
- Tied and dotted
- Syncopations
- Rhythmic counterpoint
- Structure
- Tripartite
- AABBCC
- Irregular phrasing
- Only repetition at bar 14
- Number of syllables differs
- Tripartite
- Text Setting
- Almost entirely syllabic
- Cadential ornaments
- Paired semiquavers
- Performing Forces
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