Ohime
A mind map summarising the key points of Ohime, especially useful for the extended answers. Feel free to ask questions/correct/suggest additional material :)
- Created by: Nora
- Created on: 22-01-13 20:28
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- Ohime
- Harmony
- Root position triads
- First inversion triads
- Dissonances justified by emotional text
- Tonality
- Predates functional tonality
- Dorian mode in G
- Mode blurred with Ebs and F#s
- False Relations
- Tonic and Dominant sometimes emphasised
- Chords I and V are important, especially at cadence points
- Sometimes cadences away from G
- Texture
- Number of parts
- Passages of three voice groupings
- Often all five voices sing together
- Antiphony in final section
- Four part writing rarely used
- Relationship of parts
- Chordal or homorhythmic
- Sometimes different rhythms simultaneously
- Occasionally counterpoint with a little imitation
- Freer homophony
- Number of parts
- Performing Forces
- Men and women
- Top notes reserved for first syllable of 'Ohime'
- Parts sometimes cross
- 5 soloists
- Canto: soprano range
- Quinto: like a second soprano
- Alto: probably a high tenor
- Tenor: more like a baritone
- Bass
- Tenor: more like a baritone
- Alto: probably a high tenor
- Quinto: like a second soprano
- Canto: soprano range
- Structure
- Through-composed
- Three sections mainly determined by textural changes
- Section 1: texture builds up, 3-part with antiphony, briefly 4-part, full 5-part
- Section 3: much is 5-part, 3-part passages
- Section 2: two sub-sections, the second a varied transposed down repeat, 3-part, then mainly 5-part
- Text not treated at uniform rate
- Slower treatment of the words in section 2
- Section 3 begins with faster word setting
- Rhythm and Metre
- Accented syllables normally on a strong beat
- Slow and fast passages occur in close proximity
- Monteverdi used the time signature C (bar lines supplied by the editor)
- Some rapid passages (repeated quavers)
- Syncopation is not wide spread but does occur
- Some slow moving passages (minim chords)
- Melody
- Small leaps (particularly falling thirds)
- Repeated notes
- Also: Leaps of a 4th or 5th and occasional larger leaps
- Much conjunct movement
- Balances ascending and descending movement
- Harmony
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