Duettino No.1 Flashcards
What key is the piece in?
G major
Brief summary of what is going on?
Figaro and his fiancée Susanna are excitedly getting ready for there new marriage life. Susanna is trying on her wedding hat and Figaro is measuring their new room for their bed. They are seemingly ignoring each other, each immersed in their own task. Before eventual humorously coming together with joy and love.
Figaro’s main theme, what instrument is it first heard in?
violin 1- starts on the upbeat with distinctive dotted rythem and a two-bar phases of repeated D crotchets followed by a falling 5th.
It is strong and on-beat like his manly character.
What does the woodwind and horns do to create tension at bar 9?
Thicken the texture, dynamic reaches forte, before an imperfect cadence resolves the tension at bar 9.
Susanna’s theme, what instrument plays it?
Played by the oboe, with a dotted crotchet followed by chatty quavers.
How do the violins add positive energy in bar 11,13,15
Semi quavers flourishes descending down the scale they are also conjuct
What is the horn used for?
As a pedal and adding strength, also players fanfare like phases such as bar 16
What happens at bar 17?
Rhythmic unison, desending scale
How does Figaro enter?
His theme is playing and he joins in singing down the octave. (“Cinque”)
When Figaro is counting what are his intervals?
Strong 3rds
