Thy Hand Belinda and When I am Laid in Earth
- Created by: EleishaAbbie
- Created on: 29-04-15 18:14
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- 'Thy Hand Belinda' & 'When I am Laid in Earth'
- Texture
- voice+strings= homophonic texture
- melody doesn't move with ground bass - creates hightened dramatic tension
- melody starts after the ground bass
- strings and ground bass move in similar motions - suspensions
- descending movements hints at 46 (riternelle)
- riternelle - moves in close imitation with voice and ground bass cadence together
- descending movements hints at 46 (riternelle)
- strings and ground bass move in similar motions - suspensions
- bar 25 almost resolved
- Melody
- every pitch uses between C+D - before death = F#
- descending chromatic melodic line in bar 2
- melody similar to first section (much varied) - chromatic descent of perfect 4th
- bars 6-8
- moves in close proximity
- bar 7 - WIALIE
- leap of perf 4th in bar 9
- melodically static with dom pedal - Ds lift mel to higher resolution
- bar 25-26
- contrasting melisma in bar 34
- melodic climax in 42-43 with descent of 8ve to finish bar 44-47
- Rhythm
- quadruple time - Baroque recitative
- minim in recitative should be equivalent in performance to a dotted semibreve in the aria
- complex rhythm in bar 2
- rest signifies separate phrase
- vocal part has a variety of faster moving rhythms
- including scoth-snap in bar 8
- metre of aria- simple triple w/ a minim beat
- comment in Baroque era for ground basses
- hemiola bars 4-5 of aria
- quadruple time - Baroque recitative
- Structure
- begins and ends in different keys, feature of Baroque
- aria begins ground bass alone
- aria is built around g.b
- but melody doesn't work with g.b
- Structure
- begins and ends in different keys, feature of Baroque
- aria begins ground bass alone
- aria is built around g.b
- but melody doesn't work with g.b
- it is clear in bar 36 onwards that they were out of sync
- statements 8 and 9 of ground bass
- it is clear in bar 36 onwards that they were out of sync
- each statement is 5 bars long - unusual expected to be 4
- ritornelle = outro, statements 10+11
- it is clear in bar 36 onwards that they were out of sync
- statements 8 and 9 of ground bass
- Structure
- each statement is 5 bars long - unusual expected to be 4
- ritornelle = outro, statements 10+11
- Tonality
- minor
- fits texts
- recit ends in Gmin phrygian cadence
- Gmin throughout recit underlines tragic/dramatic situation
- variety & colour provided by the chromatic descents in the ground bass
- minor
- Harmony
- 9-8 suspensions - bar 4
- mid minor 7th sus.
- pungent maj 7th against bass
- striking contrast between min + maj and upward resolving false relations between Eb and Enatural
- bar 7 and 8
- starts diatonically moving approaching perfect cadence
- Texture
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