Music For A While - GSCE Music Set Work

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  • Created by: Livi
  • Created on: 22-06-17 09:24

Music For A While - Melody

  • Stepwise with occasional leaps
  • Passing notes
  • Range of just over an octave
  • Rising sequences used
  • Ornamentation=

     - Trills

     - Appoggiaturas

     - Mordents (rapid alternation of 2 notes next to each other on a scale)

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Music For A While - Context and Resources

  • Mid Baroque (written in 1692)
  • Incidental music (to be played as part of a play)
  • Solo voice with continuo accompaniment
  • Usually tenor or countertenor
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Music For A While - Structure and Tonality

  • Construceted over a ground bass
  • Ground bass is 3 bars long, based on tonic and dominant keys
  • Ground bass has rising 5ths and falling 6ths
  • Ternary Form (ABA)

      -A is in A minor ending with modulation to E  minor

      -B has modulations throughout

      -A1 is a repeat of A but with added   ornamentation

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Music For A While - Word Setting and Painting

  • Mainly syllabic but some melisma
  • Word repetition
  • Fall on 'drops'
  • Discord (lack of harmony between notes sounding together) on 'pains'
  • Long melisma on 'eternal'
  • Dissonance (lack of harmony among musical notes) on negative words and consonance (harmony between notes) on positive words
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Music For A While - Harmony and Texture

  • Homophonic Texture
  • Harpsichord creates counterpoint
  • Ground bass is 3 bars long and repeats
  • Chord progression of root position snd 1st inversion chords
  • Tierce de Picardie used (A maj used instead of A min)
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Music For A While - Rhythm and Dynamics

  • 4/4 time
  • Ground bass made of quavers
  • Continuous walking bass
  • Vocal part mainly quavers and semiquavers
  • Syncopation (a disturbance or interruption of the regular flow of rhythm) for off beats on 'drops'
  • Tied notes and dotted rhythms in right hand harpsichord
  • No dynamic markings
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