A level Music Revision - Williams

Question 1

Melody

Answer 1

Modal style
Folk song-influenced melodic writing Pentatonic outline
Repeated notes to emphasise the power of the gale (bars 11-12).
In bar 13, the voice descends chromatically. Repeated notes and chromaticism are features of the next section from bar 34.
Dorian in character
Standard untransposed Dorian mode is D to D with a distinctive flat third and
As in the first song, a simple diatonic modal beginning leads to a more chromatic
style. The beginning of the song is mainly conjunct, but later there are larger leaps (bars 14-15).
In ‘Bredon Hill’ the vocal music begins as if it is in the standard major key of G, but again the flat
seventh F natural at bar 29 indicates modal writing – in this case an untransposed Mixolydian
(G to G). The middle of the song is again more chromatic.

Question 2

Harmony

Answer 2

Suggested whole tone
Parallel chords
Impressionist
Dissonance
Chromatic
Dorian
Seventh chords
(Starts with minor 7ths in root position)
Become 11ths
Sometimes second inversion sevenths

Question 3

Tonality

Answer 3

Eb in first inversion,
Ab minor chord,
Suggested whole tone
Parallel chords
Impressionist
Pentatonic like
Dissonance
Chromatic
Dorian

Question 4

Rhythm and Metre

Answer 4

Triplets and sextuplets
Sextuplet semiquavers
Cross-rhythms
Hemidemisemiquavers in piano
Free time, recetative
Time sig changes
Animado (Animated)
Tied semibreves
Natural rhythms of speech

Question 5

Texture

Answer 5

Parallel first inversions
Piano doubles upper strings
Ostinato sextuplets in right hand
Unison trills
Voice doubled to 2 octaves below
Homophonic
Block chords
Fortissimo tutti 50
Mel-dom-hom

Question 6

Sonority

Answer 6

A piano and string quartet
Block chords illustrate the sound of church bells.
Trills
Parallel chords
Una corda
Ostinato accompaniments
Rapid arpeggios
Tremolo strings
The cello has triple stopped pizzicato in bar 8 and elsewhere.
Sul ponticello
A combination of pizzicato and arco is used to suggest the sound of bells 5/6.
Open harmonics are used

Question 7

Structure

Answer 7

OWE:
Instrumental intro
Modified repeat of the verse
New music for introduction
Modified repeat of third verse
End
AABBA/B
IMTP:
Omits 3rd and 4th verse of poem
Pairs of verses
AB
AB
A1-B1
BH:
Intro
A-A-B-B1-C-D-A1
Postlude