Melody

Question 1

Pentatonic scale, ostinato

Answer 1

• Melodies influenced by pentatonic scale

• emulate slendro scale
• found in Javanese gamelan music

• Ostinato theme
-bars 3-4

-uses 4 different notes

Question 2

Motific writing

Answer 2

• Instead of melodic writing
• Recycle
• develop
• fragment

• Mimics Javanese gamelan music

Question 3

Triplet ostinato figure

Answer 3

• Bar 15

• Two pitches
-sounds like trickling water

• Oriental-style melody produces cross-rhythms

• two against three
• bar 16

Question 4

Whole-tone scale

Answer 4

• Bar 33
-start of B section

• LH links w/ two-note syncopated chords in seconds from A section to new section
• Non-diatonic melody
• Returns in bar 46 octave lower in LH

-accompaniment dissolves into trills (bar 50)

Question 5

Rippling ostinato figure

Answer 5

• Bar 78

• demisemiquavers
• high tessitura
• RH

• Accompaniment to main tune in LH