O Wilhelme Pastor Bone - basic points
Basic overall view of the piece.
- Created by: ashtonfrancesca
- Created on: 12-01-14 12:28
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- O Wilhelme, Pastor Bone - John Tavener
- Background
- 16th Century
- Sacred Music - Evotive antiphon in the service
- Structure
- Divided into 2 main sections (stanzas) with divisions within the stanzas
- 1st stanza is addressed to St William & 2nd is a prayer for Cardinal Wolsey
- Melody
- Mostly syllabic apart from bars 51&56
- Imitation between parts with much repetition
- Not much word painting - vitae sordes bar 23/24 it sounds minor (death)
- Mainly conjunct with moments of disjunct (bar 58 - bass part & treble) but 3rds, 4ths and 5ths are the norm
- Resources
- 5 part choir - Treble, Mean, Countertenor, tenor & bass
- Bar 43 - Treble's split until bar 47 (gymel)
- Metre
- 4/4 except bars 31 in 3/2
- Tonality
- Modal - Starts and ends in Aionian Mode
- Bar 22 - G minor until bar 52 (with Eb in key of Gm)
- Texture
- Mainly homorhythmic & homophonic. Elements of both contrapuntal and MDH.
- Much Imitation (Bar 23 - confer opum)
- Antiphonal
- More contrapuntal towards end (last 6 bars)
- Harmony
- Passing Notes
- Cadences
- Perfect Cadence - bar 52 bass part
- Plagal Cadence at end of piece
- Tierce de Picardi (bar 32)
- No definite chord structure
- Mainly root and 1st inversion chords
- Traditional - doubles only the root
- Not much dissonance
- Full of suspension
- Nota Combiata (bar 52)
- Rhythm
- Quaver action
- Similar throughout - minim followed by crotchets
- Simple rhythm
- Many tied crotchets
- Opening: treble part gives feeling of triple time rather than 4/4
- Background
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