L'apres-midi d'un faune
A mindmap summarising the key features of the Debussy setwork for Edexcel. Feel free to suggest improvements/ask questions :)
- Created by: Nora
- Created on: 17-02-13 09:26
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- Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune
- Harmony
- Chord extensions (9th, 11th, 13th)
- Much use of 7th chords
- Pedals (bars 94-99)
- Musical colour
- Chromatic harmony
- Non-functional
- Half-diminished chords
- Rhythm and Metre
- B section more stable framework
- Changes of metre
- Triplets (bar 1)
- Opening metre: compund triple
- Other tuplets
- Difficult to discern pulse or metre
- Cross Rhythms
- Syncopation
- Structure
- (Loose) Ternary form and coda
- Tone Poem
- Reprise of A section much shorter than first
- Performing Forces
- Clarinets
- Tremolo (bar 95)
- Both A and Bb used
- Harp
- Glissandi
- Harmonics (bar 108-9)
- Doubling in upper wind (bar 55)
- Strings
- Tremolo
- Parts often divided
- Pizzicato and Arco
- Mutes used
- Sur la touche (bowing over the fingerboard)
- Woodwind solos focus on timbres
- Large Orchestra
- Horns
- Bouche (stopped, bar 93)
- Muted sometimes
- Clarinets
- Tonality
- Moments of tonal clarity essential to the structure
- Ambiguous
- Melody
- Bigger leaps (bar 3)
- Central passage more diatonic
- Melody built upon opening phrase
- Chromatic opening
- Scalic movement (bar 1)
- Use of whole tone scale (bar 32)
- Texture
- Doubling of instruments
- Flute solo monophonic
- Pedals (Bars 106-110)
- Mainly melody dominated homophony
- Homorhythm (bar 107)
- Harmony
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