A Level Music: Kinderscenen by Schumann: No 1
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- Created on: 12-06-14 15:05
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- Kinderscenen: No. 1, Of Foreign Lands and People' by Schumann
- Structure
- Rounded binary form (A: BA)
- Binary because the double bar lines divide the piece into 2 sections and Rounded because the 2nd section (B) is rounded off by a return of the opening
- A: doesn't modulate, repeated exactly same. B: melodically distinct from A, fleeting reference to E min and triplet figuration in middle part that continues
- Each part is repeated (the first 8 bars are repeated at end, after a 6-bar middle section)
- Rounded binary form (A: BA)
- Tonality
- G Major
- Modulation to E Minor at bar 12 with no resolution to tonic
- Harmony
- Perfect cadences: bars 21-22
- Chord V usually has added 7th: heard in 1st inversion: bar 2, root position: bar 7 and 3rd inversion: bar 12
- Ambiguous harmonic touches
- Sophisticated chromatic harmonies: diminished 7th chord: bars 1-3
- Rhythm
- Dotted rhythms
- Frequent rhythmic blurring when dotted pattern coincides with triplets
- Performers therefore plays rubato, encouraged by ritardando followed by pause: bars 12-14
- Metre
- 2/4
- Ambiguous: continuous triplet rhythm obscures the metre
- Textures
- Melody dominated homophony
- Broken chords shared between both hands
- Contrast between legato and semi-staccato bass at beginning
- 2-part counterpoint between outer parts: bars 9-14
- Sustained notes in inner parts: bars 5-14
- Balanced periodic phrasing
- 3 textural layers in A: upper melody, inner quaver triplets and independent bass line
- In B, 3 layers continues but notation is different: upper melody is thickened in 3rds whilst triplets associated with bass line as it adapts the melody of bars 1-8
- Melody
- Simple
- Repetitive: opening 2-bar phrase
- Entirely diatonic
- Sequence: bars 9-12
- Juxtaposition of unrelated triads of B maj and G maj: bar 12
- LH countermelody based on circle of 5ths: bars 9-12
- Thematic feature of a rising minor 6th leap, followed by a stepwise descent: bars 1-2
- Bass melody: bars 9-12: borrows elements of opening bars
- Range isn't extreme
- Structure
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