Tavener - The Lamb
- Created by: Francisca
- Created on: 06-04-13 19:07
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- Tavener - The Lamb
- Background
- Composed in 1982
- setting of a poem by William Blake
- Has been used as an anthem or carol
- Regarded as postmodernism
- Rhythm and metre
- no time signature
- Performance direction = flexible
- Rhythm consists mainly of quavers, some long lengths towards the end of each phrase
- Augmentation applied to the end of each verse
- Melody and word-setting
- Word setting mainly syllabic, occasional slurs
- vocal range in the upper three parts limited to an augmentated 5th (E flat - B natural)
- Bass covers a range of a 12th (E-B)
- Opening motif generates material for the whole piece, consists of 4 pitch circling G (G-B-A-F sharp)
- Melodic material derives from inversion of original motif and retrograde
- Harmony
- Freely dissonant in the first 6 bars
- B. 7-10 there are modal cadences and a double suspension, creating the "JOY-SORROW" chord
- Tonality
- G major at the opening, becoming...
- Bitonal with the addition of the E flat alto line
- Closing in the Aeolian mode on E
- Structure
- Strophic
- Two verses...
- ...second varied only by its fuller texture
- Resources and Texture
- Four part unaccompanied choir (SATB)
- Restricted dynamics mp-pp
- Various textures employed...
- Monophony
- Two part homorhythm
- Four part homophony
- Octaves
- Octave pairings of soprano and tenor, alto and bass
- Background
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