Flow My Tears
A mindmap summarising the Edexcel notes for Flow My Tears by Dowland. Feel free to make suggestions/ask questions :)
- Created by: Nora
- Created on: 02-05-13 20:52
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- Flow My Tears
- Texture
- Melody and accompaniment
- Enough individual movement in parts to be contrapuntal
- Bar 1 - Lute has 4 notes chord= 5 parts
- Little imitation, though bar 12 lute imitates voice
- Bar 12 'tenor' of lute in 6ths with vocals
- From halfway through bar 13: three parts, fully imitative
- Structure
- Tripartite (AABBCC)
- Internal phrase structure irregular, reflecting syllabic structure of stanzas
- number of syllables and music differs for each stanza
- Song unified by opening four note figure in all parts
- Repetition of text in bar 14
- Irregular 3/2 time in bar 19
- Harmony
- Typical of early baroque
- Most chords in root position
- Descending fourth influences the bass line
- Suspensions frequent
- Section C begins with 2 bar dominant pedal
- False relations
- Tierce de Picardie
- Tonality
- Key is A minor with aeolian influences (G natural)
- Section A ends with V-I
- Section B opens in relative C major, finishes on phrygian cadence
- Section C ends V-I
- Word-Setting and melody
- almost entirely syllabic
- cadential ornamentaion
- paired semiquavers
- range of major 9th, extremes used sparing
- falling scalic figure of bar 1 used in melody
- ambivalence of minor scale
- expressive minor 6ths, otherwise conjunct
- Rhythm and Metre
- simple quadruple time
- Bar 19 has 6 crotchets, 3/2
- no repetition of rhythm (except 22-24)
- tied and dotted notes; rests and syncopation
- natural stresses of words accommodated
- longer notes give greater weight
- most verses have longer notes lengths
- shorter values mainly in lute figurations and vocal cadences
- bass line in rhythmic counterpoint to vocal mostly simpler rhythmic patterns
- Texture
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