On Wenlock Edge-Vaughan Williams

• Based on 'A Shropshire Lad' by A.E. Hausman
• Celebrated for his interest in folk music
• 'On Wenlock Edge' is a song-cycle consist of six poems for a singer, string quartet and a piano
• Concerns mortality and the nature of life and love
• 20th Century English Composer
• Took influence from Bela Bartok, the nationalist movement and folk/early choral music.
• French impressionist influence due to his studies in Paris with Ravel
• English folk songs:
  • traveled around the countryside
  • influenced by modality

Is My Team Ploughing?-George Butterworth

• Block chords
• parallel 7th chords
• living man-triads
• imperfect cadences

Der Kranke Mond-Schoenberg

• Frequently uses repeated notes
• Triplets
• Use of word painting
• Varied phrase lengths
• Twelve-tone scale
• Atonal

Schubert

• Chromaticism with word painting

On Wenlock Edge

• Repeated notes 'The Gale it Plies'
• Mixolydian Mode
• Pentatonic scale
• Whole tone scale
• Restricted note range

Is My Team Ploughing?

• syllabic setting
• high notes (verse 6)
• chromatic scale
• Dorian mode

Bredon Hill

• Aeolian mode (verse 1)
• Locrian mode (verse 5 + 6)

On Wenlock Edge

• song cycle
• verses sometimes repeated but altered
• some cyclic writing

Is My Team Ploughing?

• song cycle
• intro with verses
• verse sometimes repeated
• repetition of text

Bredon Hill

• repetition of text
• song cycle
• cyclic writing
• variation in links between verses

On Wenlock Edge

• Homophonic opening
• Antiphony-verse 3
• voice and piano-verse 3 and 4

Is My Team Ploughing?

• Polyphonic-cello and living man
• static chords-verse 1 and 3
• Piano and cello-verse 2
• octaves-verse 6

Bredon Hill

• Melody dominated homophony-verse 1
• overlapping chords-opening
• monophonic-final

On Wenlock Edge

• Non-functional
• bare 5th-at the end
• bitonal-2nd half of the verses
• 4th chords (G4 in Verse 1)

Is My Team Ploughing?

• french 6th-verse 2
• parallel chords-verse 5
• Tristan chord-living man

Bredon Hill

• bare 5ths-before v6
• suspended chords throughout
• bitonal (verse 4)
• 4th chords (throughout)

On Wenlock Edge

• triplets-intro
• cross rhythms-verse 1
• long sustained notes-opening

Is My Team Ploughing?

• syncopation-intro
• changeable meter-end of verse 1
• dotted rhythms-intro

Bredon Hill

• dotted rhythms-verse 6
• colla voce-verse 1
• free rhythms-verse 7
• cross rhythm-verse 7

On Wenlock Edge

• strings tremolo-opening
• trill-opening
• sul ponticello-verse 5
• triple stopping-verse 1

Is My Team Ploughing?

• strings tremolo-intro verse 5
• con sord-opening

Bredon Hill

• pizzicato-verse 6
• double stopping-opening
• harmonics-end

Strings and vocalist