Purcell music for a while
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- purcell - music for a while
- melody
- word painting
- 'pains' (bar 12) dissonance
- falling notes, repeated. (B23-25 'drop')
- melisma 'wond'ring' B10
- long melisma 'eternal' B20
- ornamentation
- appogiatura (b13 or 35)
- trill B13
- grace notes B31
- mordent B36
- sequences
- conjunct movement with passing notes
- soprano melody has a range of a 9th
- word painting
- RYTHM
- lots of quavers and semi quavers
- time sig 4/4 quadruple time
- dotted rhythms in harpsichord RH
- slow tempo
- occasional syncopation (bar 20)
- occasional off beat rhythms
- texture
- the RH of the harpsi provides its own melodic interest
- its improvised/ornamented (provides counterpoint to the soprano
- the acc is in the LH of the harpsichord and bass viol
- melody and accompinament
- the RH of the harpsi provides its own melodic interest
- harmony
- mostly functional and diatonic
- occasional suspensions ans dissonance
- some false relations
- end of ground bass phrase leads into the start of the next w/ a P cadence and octave leap in bass part
- TONALITY
- general sad mood A MINOR
- modulates to c major in middle of piece
- STRUCTURE
- based on repeating ground bass
- ground bass does change in B22 in order to modulate to cmajor
- loosely ternary ABA form
- melody
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