Summertime-George Gershwin
- Created by: lydiamillicent
- Created on: 21-11-15 15:53
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- Summertime
- Performing forces
- Written vocal line can be interpreted freely--Rubato
- Vocal decorations--Portamento
- String textures mainly used
- Colour from: Clarinet: bar 3 Bells: bar 6
- Wordless backing chorus- women's voices- verse 2
- Violin obligato - bar 26
- Texture
- 2nd verse denser in texture due to violin obligato/vocolisation
- Monophonic opening
- melodic fragments in accompaniment fill gaps in vocal line
- Harmony
- 16 Bar Blues: bm,bm,bm,bm em,em,f#,f# bm,bm,bm,bm d,e,bm,bm
- Added 6th chords (minor triads + major 6th
- Bm6-C#6-rocking from I-ii
- Perfect cadence at end
- False relations- bar 14
- Circle of 5ths - bar 41-43
- Tonality
- B minor- no modulatin
- V pedal
- Rhythm and metrre
- Simple duple time- alla breve
- Slow harmonic rhythms-often minims bar 8
- Syncopation-bar 15
- Rhythms notated as dotted quavers-bar 9
- Triplets - bar 12/19
- Violin countermelody uses mainly quavers
- Performing forces
- Melody
- Vocal part spans 1 octave
- Portemento- bar 10/21
- Summertime
- Performing forces
- Written vocal line can be interpreted freely--Rubato
- Vocal decorations--Portamento
- String textures mainly used
- Colour from: Clarinet: bar 3 Bells: bar 6
- Wordless backing chorus- women's voices- verse 2
- Violin obligato - bar 26
- Texture
- 2nd verse denser in texture due to violin obligato/vocolisation
- Monophonic opening
- melodic fragments in accompaniment fill gaps in vocal line
- Harmony
- 16 Bar Blues: bm,bm,bm,bm em,em,f#,f# bm,bm,bm,bm d,e,bm,bm
- Added 6th chords (minor triads + major 6th
- Bm6-C#6-rocking from I-ii
- Perfect cadence at end
- False relations- bar 14
- Circle of 5ths - bar 41-43
- Tonality
- B minor- no modulatin
- V pedal
- Rhythm and metrre
- Simple duple time- alla breve
- Slow harmonic rhythms-often minims bar 8
- Syncopation-bar 15
- Rhythms notated as dotted quavers-bar 9
- Triplets - bar 12/19
- Violin countermelody uses mainly quavers
- Performing forces
- melodies under vocal line are more chromatic
- Uses parallel movement- bar 12
- Whole tone scale - bar 19
- Orchestral line sometimes mimics vocal line- Bar 22/23
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