Haydn Flashcards
1
Q
What is the tonality?
A
- Functional tonality
- Perfect Cadences
- Tonic and Dominant Pedals
- Eb major
- Modulates to related keys
- Ab (subdominant) b.37-47
- F minor (supertonic minor) b. 48-58
- Bb Major (dominant) b. 64-68
2
Q
What is the texture?
A
- Largely 4 part
- Violins parallel 3rds, 6ths and 10ths
- Three parts in the second phrase of the refrain
- Homophonic 139-140
- Violin 1 dominates
3
Q
What is the rhythm and metre
A
- Compound duple metre
- Adagio b.148
- Simple duple b.148- 152
- Dominated by dotted crotchets and quavers
- Motives (rhythmic dimuition)
- Adagio begins on an anacrusis
- Lombardic rhythms
- Rests/ Silence/ General Pauses
4
Q
What is the melody
A
- Periodic phrasing
- Arpeggio patterns
- Chromatism but mainly diatonic
- Dissonance
- Passing notes
- Auxillary notes
- Echappee
- Ornamentation
- Articulation
5
Q
What is the harmony?
A
- Functional Harmony
- Tonic and dominant chords
- Perfect Cadences
- Pedals
- Chromatic harmony
- Harmonic sequences
- Suspensions
- Dominant 7th Chord b.28
6
Q
What are the perfomance forces and their handling
A
- String Quartet
- Violin 1 dominates
- No Doubling
- Arco
- Staccato
- Double Stopping
- pp : sf
7
Q
What is the structure?
A
- Rondo Form ABACA
- A = Refrain with repeats
- B = Episode
- A = Refrain
- C = Episode
- A1 = Refrain altered
8
Q
What features of the Haydn show it is a classical work?
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