Partita No. 4: Sarabande and Gigue
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- Created on: 31-05-16 21:06
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- Partita No. 4: Sarabande and Gigue
- Melody
- Conjunct movement
- Scalic movement in faster passages
- Disjunct movement
- Often involves broken chords
- Beginning of GIGUE - broken D followed ny broken D7
- Minor 7th to outline crucial notes in 7th chord
- 22 and 23 SARABANDE
- Often involves broken chords
- Conjunct movement
- Harmony/ Tonality
- Use of major-minor tonality with modulations to closely related keys
- Each movement begins D major - mods to dom. in A section
- Return to tonic in B section
- returns via related keys (B minor 19-20, E minor 29-30)
- Functional harmony used
- Largely diatonic
- All sections end with perfect cadence
- Lots of dissonant moments
- Dim 7th over tonic pedal immediately before final chord of SARABANDE
- Some chromatic movement - C#-C in top part (41-43)
- 7th chords - 'broken' 7th bar 8 SARABANDE
- Suspension - bars 75 and 77 of GIGUE
- Appogiaturas add tension in closing bars both sections of GIGUE (41)
- Rhythm
- SARABANDE
- Simple triple time with slow beat
- Emphasis on 2nd beat only noticeable in both bars of opening phrase
- Frequent passages of quavers in LH (3-4)
- Use of syncopation - quavers beginning off beat (bar 5)
- Use of complex rhythms (sounds like free improve)
- GIGUE
- Compound triple time - 3 sets of semi per bar
- Almost continuous semiquaver movement
- SARABANDE
- Instruments
- No instrument specified
- Partitas usually played on harpsichord
- Some limited dynamic contrast available
- Texture
- SARABANDE
- Almost two-part writing
- RH melody with demisemi and semiquavers
- MDH
- LH supporting part with mainly quavers
- MDH
- LH supporting part with mainly quavers
- Beginning/ end of each section, other parts added
- Bar 2 is monophonic - one note at a time sounding
- GIGUE
- Three-part writing with some fugal textures
- Opening 6 bars monophonic - establishes fugal subjects
- Second fugal entry (answer) starts on dominant
- Makes 2 part texture
- Final entry (subject 1 on tonic)
- Builds up to 3 part texture (bar 17)
- 2nd section begins monophonically with new fugue subject (Bar 49)
- SARABANDE
- Structure
- SARABANDE
- Rounded binary
- Two sections
- Section A ends in dominant
- Section B returns to tonic
- GIGUE
- Binary
- Fugal elements, but not a regular fugue
- A ends in dominant key
- B ends with tonic
- SARABANDE
- Melody
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