music for a while
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- Created on: 23-12-17 18:34
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- music for a while
- context
- he composed music for church, stage and royal occasions
- wrote In the baroque period 1600-1750
- music for a while was written for play called lee's play oedipus
- used to calm Alecto until she drops her whip and the snakes fall from her head
- intruments
- solo voice
- continuo in bass viol and harpsichord
- not many tempo or dynamic markings
- bass part of bass viol is doubled by harpsichordist left hand
- right hand of harpsichord is improvised guided by harmony implied my purcell
- structure
- ternary form ABA
- returning a section is shorter and more embellished
- ground bass
- feature of baroque
- three bars long
- quaver steady rhythm
- use of chromatic notes provides tonal ambiguaty
- it is a lament (song displaying sorrowful feeling) , feature of many pieces with ground bass
- ternary form ABA
- tonality
- song in A minor
- modulations always confirmed by perfect cadence
- ground bass not diatonic
- texture= Mel Dom Hom
- melody
- rising and falling sequences
- ornaments
- stepwise movement
- range of just over octave
- continues vocal phrases beyond end of ground bass 3 bars to avoid predictability
- word painting
- syllabic
- "pains"= dissonant chord
- "wond'ring"= melisma
- Laius rising from his bones= rising chromaticism
- six repetitions of "all"= suggests multitude
- "eased"= slurs
- "free the dead"= ground bass turns to g major (cheerful key)
- "drop"= single quaver off-beats
- Harmony
- variety comes from layouts and decorations provided by harpsichord
- false realisation= when a chromatic and then natural version of a note occurs simultaneously or close
- tierce de picardi b23
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