Haydn - ‘Quoniam tu solus’ from The Nelson Mass - Flashcards in A Level and IB Music

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Metre

Simple Quadruple

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Rhythm

Rhythms in choral parts dictated by text setting // Energy maintained by quaver movement (b.37, brass)

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Background

Mass in Latin // Words have been set to the music // ‘Quoniam’ - Singing to the glory of God

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Tonality

(Whole Mass is in D minor) // D major // Modulations to related keys (D, Em, D, A, Bm, C, D) // Passing transition/modulation to Em, b.49,3 into G major (D#)

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Structure

3 main sections: b.1-22 - 2 bar phrases (dictated by text) - Almost periodic // b.22-61 - Fugato/Fugal style // b.61-82 - Final Amen

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Melody

Scalistic melody // Fugato theme in b.22 (descending sequence), bass - tenor - alto - soprano

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Instruments (forces/resources)

Composed for SSATB and orchestra

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Texture 1

Melody Dominated Homophony (MDH) - b.4 // Antiphony - b.3-4 // Homorhythmic vocal parts - b.6 // Hetrophonic - b.6 (strings + bass), slow bass, fast strings // Fugato - b.22

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Texture 2

Imitative - b.22, b.62 // Contrapuntal/Polyphonic - b.22, b.30 // Stretto - b.39-40, b.44 (bass + tenor), entries get closer // Homophony - b.80-end // Choral homophony // Counter subject

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Harmony

Tonic pedals, b.20 // Fugato - circle of 5ths in bass of orchestra

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Haydn - ‘Quoniam tu solus’ from The Nelson Mass