Composers Imagination

Question 1

patronage

Answer 1

musician as servant musican as employee

Question 2

Haydn’s contract

Answer 2

aid Joseph [Haydn] shall take care that he and all the members of his orchestra follow the instructions given, and appear in white stockings, white linen, powdered, and with either queue or a tiewig.

Question 3

Approaches to Working with the text

Answer 3

1. work WITH the text: support what it offers2. work AGAINST text: take it apart, distort it…3. EXPLOIT the text: exaggerate what it offersAdam Bradley, The Poetry of Pop. Yale University Press, 2017

Question 4

Prosidy

Answer 4

rhythm and melody in words

Question 5

Over the Rainbow

Answer 5

our lines per verse- two clauses- one sentence per verse- few multisyllable words- text setting largely syllabic? (vs. melismatic)codaword-painting- 2nd chord is minor - “somewhere” leap and “rainbow”- “bluebirds”- question at end: melody rises

Question 6

sprecstimme

Answer 6

speech-singing