Is My Team Ploughing?

Question 1

context

Answer 1

a conversation between a dead man and a living man

Question 2

sonority

Answer 2

-una corda
-con sordini, mysteriousness
-bar 9 reduced instrumentation

Question 3

structure

Answer 3

modified strophic form, three pairs of verses
-AB, AB, A1B1

Question 4

melody

Answer 4

-simple diatonic start that gets increasingly chromatic
-dorian melodic line at the start
-starts off conjunct but later there are larger leaps
-bar 50, WP, top A is the highest note sung, emphasises the word ‘dead’ (alongside ff and tutti accompaniment)
-bar 57 septulets represents the ghost flying away
-vocals recitative style

Question 5

harmony/tonality

Answer 5

-diatonic harmony at the beginning
-simple diatonic chords are given mysterious quality by placing Dm and G chords after each other (G chord is the raised 6th of Dorian)
-parallel movement, chords and melody
-parallel open 5ths (Tudor Church)
-static harmony, represents the ghost

Question 6

texture

Answer 6

-beginning, homohythmic
-ghost has thinner/reduced texture, when the ma sings it is thicker, block chords (bar 9), imitates the poem
-bar 50, tutti
-bar 53, monophonic
-varying texture overall

Question 7

tempo/metre/rhythm

Answer 7

-recit, long held notes allow free time feel for vocalist
-frequent metre changes and tempo changes indicated
-triplets, septuplets

Question 8

wider listening

Answer 8

sonority:

structure:

melody:
Thomas Tallis, Fantasia
-Tudor Church music, parallel movement

harmony/tonality:

texture:

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