Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
The key facts about the set piece of work Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 3rd Movement
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- Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
- Composed by Wollfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Date of composition: 1787
- Instrumentation: string quartet
- Two violins, a viola, a cello and a bass
- Tonality
- Minuet: G major
- Trio: D major
- Tempo
- Allegretto
- In accented triple time 3/4
- Typical of the Minuet dance style
- Texture
- Homophonic (Melody and accompaniment)
- Harmony
- Diatonic with some modulations
- Ranges from piano to forte
- Melody
- Mainly conjunct
- Moving in semitones
- Mainly conjunct
- Rhythm
- Simple rhythms with lots of quaver movement
- Form
- Minuet - Trio - Minuet
- The minuet and trio are in binary form
- Whole piece is in ternary form
- Minuet - Trio - Minuet
- Location of diminished 7ths
- Bar 10 beat 1
- Diminished 7ths are four minor thirds on top of each other
- bar 11 beat 3
- Other features
- Cadences
- Conjjunct and disjunct movement
- also known as chromatic and oscillate
- Anacrusises
- Viola plays in alto clef
- Pivot chords
- The cello, bass and viola plays in octaves from bars 1 to 7 and later on in the piece
- key changes
- Modulation and inversions
- sequences
- Chromatic and melodic decoration
- Melodic decoration
- Appoggiatura
- A note which takes half the value of the note after it
- Trills
- Appoggiatura
- Articulation: Staccato
- Composed by Wollfgang Amadeus Mozart
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