AO1: Vaughan Williams: No. 2 - 'Is my team ploughing?'

Question 1

MELODY: Dorian style recitative style melodic line at beginning REFLECTING PASTORAL SETTING

Answer 1

Vaughan Williams: ‘Three Elizabethan Songs’ (1891) No. 1 - opens in a transposed Dorian mode

Question 2

HARMONY: Juxtaposition of chromatic and diatonic writing reflects text - UNDERLYING TENSION - CHROMATIC VS. INNOCENT DIATONIC QUESTIONS OF GHOST

Answer 2

CHROMATICISM SHOWS UNREST - ‘Heart’s Haven’ - Vaughan Williams from Five Mystical Songs (1903) - SHOWS ‘TUMULTUOUS DAY’

Question 3

TONALITY: Modal writing

Answer 3

Vaughan Williams: ‘Three Elizabethan Songs’ (1891) No. 1 - opens in a transposed Dorian mode

Question 4

MELODY: Mainly conjunct at beginning but becomes more disjunct and angular throughout the piece - WORD PAINTING

Answer 4

Fanny Mendelssohn: the lied ‘Italien’ - WORD PAINTING. Where evolution of poet’s emotions are shown through a movement towards less conjunct writing

Question 5

TEXTURE: Melody dominated homophony

Answer 5

Fanny Mendelssohn - ‘Italien’

Question 6

SONORITY: Solo tenor - recitative style pianissimo to forte

Answer 6

Declamatory and lyrical writing - common to art song - Schubert’s Lieder Der Lindenbaum (1827)

Question 7

RHYTHM / METRE: Frequent time signature changes

Answer 7

Impressionist feel - Debussy’s Sarabande - Pour Le Piano

Question 8

RHYTHM / METRE: Quaver triplets - creates rhythmic interest

Answer 8

Vaughan Williams - ‘Easter’ - Five Mystical Songs