Haydn 'The Joke' DR SMITH Analysis
This is a DR SMITH (Dynamics, Rhythm/meter, Structure, Melody, Instrumentation, Texture, Tonality, Harmony) analysis of the edexcel A2 Music set work (2013) - String Quartet in Eb 'The Joke' (Haydn).
- Created by: alisha97
- Created on: 13-06-13 13:08
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- Haydn
- Dynamics
- fairly detailed dynamics e.g. p, f, crescendos/ diminuendos
- Includes sf's (forceful accent) e.g. bar 41.
- Uses General Pauses (GP's) e.g. bar 155.
- Rhythm/meter
- In compound duple time(6/8) except in the adagio section where it is duple time (2/4).
- Mainly quavers, crotchets & dotted crotchets,
- Structure
- Rondo Form (ABACAetc)
- Adagio section is a coda. (bar 149)
- A sections are called refrains. Other sections are called episodes.
- The refrain is in rounded binary form (ABA)
- Melody
- 1st 3 note of violin 1 - important motif.
- developed e.g. last note bar 24-26 (now all quavers) repeated over and over in a rising sequence.
- 4th-6th notes of violin 1 - important motif.
- developed e.g. 2nd half bar 3 it in inverted.
- Melody mostly on violin 1 other than when violin 1 plays inverted pedal (all other parts play melody)
- very scalic and arpegiaic.
- In style of a jig - begins with annacrusis.
- some chromatic phrases e.g. bar 25-26(3).
- acciacaturas e.g. 2nd half bar 35 (violin 1).
- 1st 3 note of violin 1 - important motif.
- Instrumentation
- String quartet 2 violins, viola and a cello.
- Violin 1 plays melody most of the time.
- Violin 2, viola and cello play a simple, chord based accompaniment.
- Texture
- The texture is mainly melody-dominated homophony i.e. melody and accompaniment
- Violin 1 mostly plays melody and other parts play a simple chord based accompaniment.
- Adagio section is homorhythmic.
- bars 110-115 are imitative.
- Canon in bars 110-115 through all 4 parts.
- Lots of pedal points e.g. dominant pedal bars 16-28.
- Uses General Pauses (GPs) e.g. bar 155.
- The texture is mainly melody-dominated homophony i.e. melody and accompaniment
- Tonality
- mostly in Eb Major but modulates through Abmajor (bar 36) and Fminor(bar48) in the first episode(bars36-70).
- diatonic with some chromatic decoration notes e.g. the Anatural in violin 1 bar 4(lower auxillary)
- Harmony
- Lots of pedal points e.g. dominant pedal bars 16-28.
- inverted dominant pedal in violin 1 at bars 111-115.
- First tonic pedal not heard until bar 107-111(1).
- Mostly root position and first inversion chords.
- Dominant 9th chord (Bb-D-F-C) at bar 149.
- Use of perfect cadences e.g. last two bars (I-V7-I) - very classical.
- Dynamics
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