Belshazzar's Feast Israelites Lament

Introduction

• Minor 3rds --> Pathos
• Con rubato 
• Sets mood of lament for the psalm 
• Dark haunting cello tune 
• Low tessitura tremolo viola 

Fig 1

• D minor 
• Bass clarinet, Organ and Timpani plays a tonic pedal 
• 2 bars after first female entry
• Melisma on 'waters' 
• 4 bars after NO accompaniment 
• 'Babylon', dissonance, D and Eb 
• False relation, Sop Eb 'there' Alto E 'Babylon'
• Smooth movement of vocal parts --> fits the text 

• Double chorus 
• HEAVY accompaniment, piano, cello, double bass, timpani and bass drum, depict tears falling
• Word painting- Sop, Alto, Tenor 1 echo 'wept' semitone fall each time
• Dissonance, Bass 'A', Sop 2 and Alto 1 'Ab' 
• 7 part vocal writing a cappella 
• Melisma on 'willows' 

• Short orchestral interlude 
• Almost atonal 
• Oboe solo imitated by Saxophone
• Accompanied by contrabasson and celllo 

• Tenors and basses tell the story 
• Sop and alto punctuarte 
• Dissonance through 2nds 
• 3/8 TS, --> driving force 
• 'Song' Eb-Cb pleasant interval 

• Homophonic 
• Institent - Piu mosso 
• Bb major 
• 3/4 --> growing hysteria 
• 'Zion' tritone, IRONIC 
• 4 part free counterpoint 
• Melisma on 'sing' 

• Heavily flatside harmony, suggests Ab minor 
• Unaccompanied --> sorrowful 
• Suspensions:
• Alto P=Cb, S=Cb, R=Bb
• Tenor P=Eb, S=Eb, R=Db 
• False relation, Alto Bb, Bass C 
• 4 part free counterpoint 
• Melisma on 'Lord's' 
• Chords
• 'strange' Amajor7 
• 'land' C#minor+A 
• 'in' C#min, 'a' +A
• 'strange' Fmajor 7 
• 'land' B diminished+9th