Music for a while 0.0 / 5 ? MusicPurcellGCSEEdexcel Created by: leah.cmCreated on: 08-03-23 17:10 Background & Resources - harpsichord - Bassviol - Oedipus - Alecto 1 of 16 Features Of the Ground Bass - sequence - quavers - arpeggiaic - 3 bars 2 of 16 Rhythm, tempo & Metre - syncopation - Dotted 3 of 16 Melody and word setting - conjunct - melody & accompaniment - melody dominated homophony 4 of 16 Word Painting - ornamentation -mordent -dissonance 5 of 16 Harmony - paired slurs - functional 6 of 16 Tonality G major A minor E minor C major Major Minor 7 of 16 Structure - ternary - da capo - Aria 8 of 16 music (bars 4–5) - Repeated, gets higher, perfect 5th Reinforcing the title, music is what will calm down the fury. 9 of 16 wond’ring (bars 10–12)- Descending , scalic,melismatic, legato pattern in a rising sequence To represent wistful thoughts 10 of 16 pains (bar 12) - Dissonance, e in the melody versus d in the harmony. Emphasise the feeling of pain. 11 of 16 eas’d (bars 13-14) - Dissonance which resolves each time. Heard 3 times in a descending sequence. Reflect the passing of pain. 12 of 16 and disdaining to be pleased (bars 14-15) - Descending scale with syllables in slurred pairs. Word paint the phrase. 13 of 16 ‘til Alecto free the dead (bars 15-18) - Repeated twice , brighter key of G major, some melismatic writing Reflect the raising of the dead 14 of 16 drop (bars 23–25)- Presented in a descending pattern on the weak off-beat and is sung with unusual levels of repetition nine times. 9 snakes dropping from alectos head. Onomatopoeic 15 of 16 whip (bar 27)- Sung as an appoggiatura. Onomatopoeic quality to the word. 16 of 16
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