Instrumental - Corelli Flashcards
1
Q
What are typical featurse of the period?
A
- Broadly monothematic
- Modulations to closely related keys
- Polarisation of parts
2
Q
What are features of rhythm?
A
- Compound duple, 6/8
- In the style of a gigue (Irish dance that finished off dance suites in the baroque period)
- Quavers and semiquavers as well as long notes
- Hemiola (bar 27)
- Frequent syncopation
- Crossrhythms (bar 26, violin sounds 3/4 over 6/8)
- Violone entry in bar 6 starts half way through bar
3
Q
What are features of melody?
A
- Sequences (bar 1 - rising with passing notes)
- Inverted melody, bar 5
- Monothematic - all melodic invention deriving from the opening three-note motif based on a rising 3rd
- Addition of an anacrusis to motif for entries starting at bar 32
- High tessitura
- Mainly two bar phrasing (periodic)
- Almost all the melody is based on interval of a 3rd
- Occasionally an octave leap will break chains of characteristic descending sequences
4
Q
What are features of harmony?
A
- Functional harmony
- Frequent perfect cadences define phrase structure
- Interrupted cadence at bar 38-39
- Consonant - diatonic chords in root and first inversion
- Frequent suspensions and double suspensions (29.2)
- Suspensions occur in organ along by ii7b-V progression
- Bar 39.1 has an unresolved suspension - leaps up
- Circle of fifths (32-35) (B-E-A-D-G)
- Pedal points show end of section
5
Q
What is the structure of the piece?
A
- Repeated binary AABB
- Sections use same material but in different way
- As the movement is broadly monothematic, the structure is defined by teh repeat marks and the tonality
6
Q
What are features of texture?
A
- Contrapuntal mainly with three part texture
- Imitative canonic or fugal elements at opening
- Homorhythms
- Stretto, bar 11-13, and 2 bar phrases until stretto in bass at bar 6
- Polarised texture between top violins and bass violone
- Homophonic at cadence points e.g. 26-27
- Closes by dropping all three instruments down an octave for the last three bars
7
Q
What is the tonality of the piece and what keys does it modulate to?
A
- D major with modulations to closely related keys:
- A major at end of first half (9) - perfect cadence into this
- D major quickly in bar 22 then modulations passing through the circle of fifths, Bm (26), Em, A (32), G (34), D major at bar 36
- Bar 31-43 can be seen as a short codetta phrase
