Steady dotted minim chords in piano almost throughout
Dotted rhythms in vocal part
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Melody and Word Setting
Generally syllabic
Melisma (bars 54-55)
Overall vocal range of a 13th
Melody line revolves around Fsharp (from bars 1-41)
Features a descending tonic triad
Turn (bar 21)
Word painting
-Opening bars, 'dark, still night' matching the low pitching and slow tempo
-First high point bar 31 - 'Overwhelmed by pain'
-Second high point bar 41 - 'my own face'
Scalelic melody (bar 49)
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Harmony
Inner pedal
Open 5ths chords (bar 4)
Tritone chord
False relations (bar 13)
Chromatic chords at the climaxes (bar 32 = french augmented 6th/bar 41 + 51 german augmented 6th)
'Neopolitan' (flattened supertonic) chord bar 59
Plagal cadence (bars 61/62)
Tierce de Picardie (end)
Suspensions (bar 27/28 + 29/30 + 36/37)
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Tonality
B minor
One modulation to D sharp minor (bar 47)
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Structure
Through-composed, divided into 3 verses
Piano introduction and short linking passages
Some repetition in the vocal line (bar 5/15)
Reptition of four bar ostinato-like figure in piano (bars 1-4)
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Texture and Performing Forces
Tenor with piano
Melody-dominated homophony throughout, the piano taking the melody line only when voice is silent
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