music for a while - henry purcell
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- Created on: 23-03-19 17:48
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- MUSIC FOR A WHILE
- texture
- melody and accompani-ment
- accompaniment - ground bass
- RH harpsichord - counterpoint w vocal line
- tonality
- key signature A minor
- reflects the sombre nature of lyrics - a lament
- modulates in the middle to relevant keys: E minor, C major and A major, then returns to tonic Amin
- use of perfect cadences V-I
- sometimes ambiguous due to chromatic notes
- tierce de picardie
- a major chord at the end of a minor piece
- key signature A minor
- melody
- word painting
- technique of writing music that reflects sad nature of the song
- 'eternal' -lengthy melisma
- 'drop' - repeated in a descending pattern
- free the dead - bright G maj key
- 'pains were eased' - dissonance on pains, resolution on eased
- mostly minor key appropriate for mood of the piece
- mostly conjunct with small leaps
- passing notes are frequent (notes that don't belong in the chord)
- mostly syllabic with melismatic moments
- rests are used to break up phrases
- use of ornaments
- trills
- apoggiaturas
- grace notes
- mordents
- common to Baroque music
- descending sequences
- word painting
- tempo, metre and rhythm
- no tempo marking, but slow tempo would be appropriate
- written in 4/4
- dotted rhythms sometimes used in vocal line
- uses a variety of rhythms but mainly quavers and semiquavers
- occasional syncopation
- ground bass is entirely quavers
- dynamics
- no marked dynamics
- background information
- written in the Baroque era
- composed in 1692 for a play telling the Greek myth of Oedipus
- 2nd of 4 movements
- instruments
- soprano singer
- harpsichord
- LH harpsichord and bass viol act as ground bass
- bass viol
- LH harpsichord and bass viol act as ground bass
- voice and continuo
- structure
- ground bass structure in ternary form
- 3 bar repeating ground bass
- harmony
- dissonance used occasionally
- perfect cadences
- suspensions
- diatonic
- texture
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