GCSE Music Exam

• Renaissance, 1550 - 1650
• Early/Medieval Music
• Step dynamics, no gradual changes
• Played by small gorups of performers called Consorts
• Full or Broken Consorts
• Instruments
  • Shawms (Like an Oboe)
  • Sackbuts (Like a Trombone)
  • Lutes (Pear shaped string Instrument)
  • Recorders
  • Viols
  • Harpsichord
• Drones are used
• Performed in a Royal Court

Possible Composers - Byrd, Palestrina, Gibbons

These are both from the Renaissance Period

Pavanne

• 4 beats per bar
• Slow and Stately
• Has a minim, crotchet, crotchet rhythm in the background
• Binary Form, A, A1, B, B1

Galliard

• 3 beats per bar
• Lively and Upbeat
• Hemiola Rhythm
• Binary Form A, A1, B, B1

• Baroque, 1650-1750
• Small Orchestras were used
• Instruments
  • Harpsichord for chords
  • Cello for bass line
  • Violins, Violas
  • Recorders, Flutes
  • Trumpets
  • Oboes
  • Baroque Organ (Pipe Organ)
• Music for strings only, sometimes with solo instruments
• Melodies using sequencing and imitation
• Step dynamics, no gradual changes
• Harmonies began here as they replaced the nodes with major and minor scales
• Music was written to order in these times and all composers worked for a patron such as the Church a royal court or a wealthy noble

Possible Composers - Bach, Teleman, Vivaldi, Pachelbel, Handel

These are both from the Baroque Period

Sarbande

• 3 beats per bar
• Slow Pace
• Sometimes sound Sad/Sombre
• Slight accent on the second beat of the bar

Gavotte

• 4 beats per bar
• Fast/Medium Pace
• Binary Form
• Strings generally used with harpsichord for solo instrument