Brandenburg Concerto - GCSE Music Set Work

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  • Created by: Livi
  • Created on: 25-06-17 17:31

Brandenburg Concerto - Resources and Context

  • Late Baroque Piece, concerto grosso
  • Three Solo Instruments:
  •  Flute
  •  Violin
  •  Harpsichord
  • Chamber Orchestra
  • Virtuosic part for harpsichord
  • Basso Continuo with figured bass
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Brandenburg Concerto - Melody

  • Based on triadic, scalic ideas
  • Opening melody of section A = the subject
  • Opening melody of section B = based on the subject but transposed to B minor
  • Use of sequences
  • Ornaments - Trills and Appoggiatura
  • More ornamentation added by performer
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Brandenburg Concerto - Harmony

  • Simple, diatonic chords
  • Mostly triads in root position or first inversion
  • Dominant 7ths
  • Some discord from the ornamentation
  • Tonic and dominant pedals
  • Perfect cadence to end each section
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Brandenburg Concerto - Texture

  • Monophonic in bars 1-2 and 233-234
  • Rest is contrapuntal
  • Frequent use of imitation
  • Section A is fugal
  • Some tutti sections
  • Canon (eg B193)
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Brandenburg Concerto - Rhythm

  • Tempo = Allegro
  • Written in 2/4
  • Triplet quavers make it sound like 6/8
  • Gigue style
  • Lots of triplets and dotted rhythms
  • Semiquavers in the harpsichord
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Brandenburg Concerto - Structure and Tonality

  • Ternary Form (ABA)
  • Section A: B1-78
  •  Fugato
  •  D major with modulation to A major
  • Section B: B79-232
  •  Ritornello structure
  •  B minor with modulations to F# minor and A major
  • Section A: B233-310
  •  Fugato
  •  D major with modulations to A major
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