Purcell Music for a while
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- Created on: 01-06-18 12:23
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- Purcell- music for a while
- Performing forces and their handling
- voice and continuo
- scored for soprano, harpsichord and bass viol
- r-hand of harpsichord is an elaborate realisation
- L-hand of the harpsichord plays ground bass
- ground bass also played on bass viol
- Text setting and word-painting
- vocal line is mainly syllabic
- melismatic moments 'wond'ring' bar 10
- repetition is used 'drop' bar 23
- 'pains' dissonance bar 12
- 'eas'd' bar 14 dissonance resolved
- Melody
- compass/range of a ninth, just over an octave
- mostly conjunct
- frequent passing notes
- extensive use of ornaments: trills -bar 13, Appoggiaturas-bar 35, mordents
- Structure
- ground bass structure
- 3-bars long
- quaver rhythms
- semitone intervals
- it modulates
- Texture
- melody- dominated homophony
- accompaniment provided by ground bass
- right hand of harpsichord provides counterpoint with vocal line
- Tonality
- A minor key (coloured by tierce de picardie
- tonality is sometimes ambiguous due to chromatic nature of the ground bass
- central section modulates to related keys
- modulations are confirmed by perfect cadences
- Tempo, metre and rhythm
- 4/4 metre
- slow tempo
- dotted rhythms and syncopation
- Harmony
- chords are diatonic and functional
- perfect cadences and cadential 6-4
- suspensions
- dissonance
- false realisation seen in groundbass and harpsichord
- Performing forces and their handling
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