Schumann: Rhythm
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- Created on: 23-02-15 10:31
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- Schumann: Rhythm
- No.1
- Time signature is simple duple, the triplet rhythm continues throughout
- Is this piece in simple or compound time?
- Melody features dotted rhythms
- Dotted rhythm against a triplet could be played in a variety of ways
- Might be equivalent to a triplet divided into crotchet-quaver
- The semiquaver would be written directly above the third note of the triplet
- Might be intended exactly as written
- Half of the third note of the triplet
- Might be equivalent to a triplet divided into crotchet-quaver
- Dotted rhythm against a triplet could be played in a variety of ways
- Schumann's 'rit' and 'ritardando'
- Typical of rhythmic nuances that he adds to harmonic and structural corners
- He appears to intended them only to apply where they are written, as he often fails to indicate a tempo
- Time signature is simple duple, the triplet rhythm continues throughout
- No.3
- Continuous semiquavers
- Each 2 bar phrase melody starts with a crotchet
- Child pausing before running in a new direction
- Inner part maintains the semiquaver movement as an arpeggio to keep momentum going
- Broad rhythm of sforzandi runs through the piece every two bars
- Interrupter only in bars 13-16
- No. 11
- Dotted rhythms
- Push music forward in alternate bars of the A section
- Each episode has its own characteristic rhythm, with semiquavers in pairs (B) or groups of four (C)
- Offbeat rhythms in accomp.
- Dotted rhythms
- General
- Romantic composers often base a piece on a single rhythmic and expressive idea
- Embraces both melody and accomp.
- Schumann lingered over a mood captured in a single phrase
- Romantic composers often base a piece on a single rhythmic and expressive idea
- No.1
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