The Lamb
A mindmap made using the Edexcel notes fo AS level music, on Tavener's The Lamb. Fee free to make suggestions/comment :)
- Created by: Nora
- Created on: 04-05-13 11:45
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- The Lamb
- Performing forces
- Four part SATB choir
- Unaccompanied
- Ranges of upper parts are narrow: soprano=aug 5th alto= maj 6th tenor=maj 7th
- Bass range = major 9th low Es at end of verse provide depth and weight
- Parts sometimes cross (alto and soprano)
- Some difficult melodic and harmonic intervals
- Dynamics restricted to mp-pp
- Texture
- Verse 1: monphonic, two part (homorhythmic), monophonic, two-part (homorhythmic), four-part (homophonic, chordal)
- Verse 2: octave writing, two-parts doubled at octave, octave writing, two-parts doubled at octave, four-parts
- Structure
- Poem has two stanzas
- same musical material for both BUT textural change
- strophic
- each bar corresponds to a line of poem BUT broken bar lines show couplet thinking
- Tonality
- No key signature
- opening of each verse in G major (ambiguous because later harmonised in in E minor)
- Bitonality in 2nd to 6th bar of each verse; G major and Eb major
- Last four bars Eminor aeolian
- Begins and ends in different but closely related keys
- All inversion exact e.g. bar 2 (does not remain within a scale
- Harmony
- Two part writing
- harmonic intervals do not imply chords
- melodic pattern against inversion
- diminished 3rd created in bar 2
- double false relation
- Four part harmony
- more conventional
- triads and seventh chords
- discords prepared and resolved
- Less conventional
- some modal harmony at cadences due to no leading note
- soprano and tenor have consecutive 5ths on 'tender'
- Some dissonances Am9 in bars 7-10; bars 17-20
- tenor's second note is an unprepared 7th
- Two part writing
- Melody
- Bars 1 and 2 are basis for all that follows
- Influence of serialism: retrogrades, inversions and 7 note set
- Bar 1: two three pitch segments
- Bar 2: same with exact inversion in altos
- Bar 3: all seven pitches combined to make new melody (P)
- Bar 4: retrograde of bar 3
- Bar 5: P in soprano inversion in alto
- Bar 6: Retrograde in soprano; retrograde in alto
- Bar 7-10 melody from 1 + 2 harmonised ordinarily
- Bar 1 stepwise movement, major and minor thirds, repeated leaps
- Last four bars introduce 4th and 5ths in basses (V-I)
- Word setting syllabic, some pairs of quavers slurred with a single syllable each
- Rhythm and Metre
- No time signature, bar lines reflect poetic structure
- always guided by the words
- much fairly slow movement in even quavers
- one or two long notes emphasise end of line/bar
- Seven syllable lines: 6 quavers + crotchet, feeling of quadruple metre
- Three of 6 syllable lines: 6 quavers + dotted crotchet + crotchet. emphasis on penultimate syllable
- last bar of each verse has rhythmic augmentation
- verse 2, last 4 bars slower than verse 1 + augmentation + rit. = very slow!
- Performing forces
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