Henry Purcell's Music for a while 1692
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- Music for a While - Henry Purcell
- Dynamics
- Baroque instruments have small dynamic range
- Uses some crescendo's and diminuendo's in vocal part for phrasing
- Baroque instruments have small dynamic range
- Rhythm and Tempo and Metre
- No tempo marking, but slow
- 4/4 simple quadruple time
- quavers and semi quavers are the most prominent rhythms
- occasional dotted rhythms bar 10
- syncopation bar 20 and 24
- ground bass only quavers
- Structure
- ground bass - harpsichord
- 3 bar repeated rising arpeggio pattern
- Ternary form
- repeated A section is not identical
- A - Bar 1-15 B - Bar 16-29 A - Bar 29-38
- repeated A section is not identical
- ground bass - harpsichord
- Melody
- soprano range - 9th
- Mostly conjunct
- passing notes Bar 5
- no leaps greater than a 4th - bar 7
- Rests break up phrases bar 11
- descending sequences bar 20
- Extensive ornamentation
- trills
- mordants
- Grace notes
- appoggiatura's
- Grace notes
- mordants
- trills
- Instrumentation
- Written for voice and basso continou
- Incidental music
- secular music
- aria from 2nd movement of Oedipus
- Texture
- melody dominated homophony throughout
- accompaniment is ground bass which is the Harpsichord
- Harpsichord provides counterpoint with vocal line
- Harmony
- Minor key
- Some ambiguity due to harpsichord
- modulates to related keys:
- E minor Bar 14
- G major Bar 16
- C major bar 21
- A minor Bar 23
- C major bar 21
- G major Bar 16
- E minor Bar 14
- chords are diatonic
- Perfect cadences are used to confirm modulations
- Bar 14
- Bar 16
- Bar 21
- Bar 23
- Perfect cadences are used to confirm modulations
- Minor key
- Dynamics
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