Music for a While - GCSE music 2018
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- Music For A While - Henry Purcell
- Instrumentation
- harpsichord
- Bass-Viol
- Soprano voice
- Melody
- Vocal range of a 9th
- Much of the music is conjunct
- Passing notes are frequent
- Leaps are small and no greater than a 4th
- Rests are used to break up phrases or for emphasis
- There are some descending sequences
- Lots of ornaments used
- Structure
- Follows a ground bass structure - short and reoccurring
- Arpeggio based
- The ground bass is heard 4.5 times before it modulates in bar 14
- Texture
- Melody dominated homophony
- Accompiment provided by the ground bass in the left and bass of the harpsichord and bass viol
- The righthand harpsichord provides counterpoint with the vocal line
- Tonality
- A minor
- Is sometimes ambiguous due to diatonic elements are chromaticism
- The central section modulates lots of times into different, relative keys
- Modulations are confirmed in perfect cadences
- Harmony
- Use of perfect cadences to end phrases
- Chords are diatonic and functional
- Suspensions are used occasionally
- Dissonances are infrequent but used for word painting
- Tempo, metre and rhythm
- No tempo indication - but usually played slowly
- The tempo is 4/4 time
- quavers and semi-quavers are the most predominant
- Dotted rhythms are sometimes used in the vocal line
- Ground bass is entirely quavers
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