Downland - Flow My Tears
A 2013 set work
- Created by: Charlie
- Created on: 30-03-13 19:41
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- Downland
- Background
- Downland was a lute player
- Published in 1600
- First Performance; given by composer in a private setting
- Genre: Lute Song
- Resources
- Solo Voice, Lute & Viola da Gamba
- Lute
- 15 - 24 strings depending on size
- A Renaissance fretted plucked instrument
- Structure
- Tripartite Structure (AABBCC)
- Melody
- Leaps are narrow - no more than a 4th normally
- 4 note lachrimae motif
- Augmented motif Bar 1 - 2
- Word setting: syllabic
- Melisma Bar 7
- Harmony
- Double suspension Bar 2
- Phyrigan Cadence Bar 2
- False relation Bar 5
- 7-6 suspension Bar 6
- 4 - 3 suspension Bar 7
- Passing 7th Bar 7
- Tierce de Picardie, last bar
- Tonality
- A minor/modal
- C Major no prep Bar 9
- E Major (dominant)
- Texture
- Imitation Bar 12 - 14
- 3 - part counterpoint
- Rhythm & Metre
- Single bar - flexible rhythm Bar 19
- Syncopation Bar 11
- Common time - feel of 2/2
- Background
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