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Music for a While Flashcards

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1
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Composer

A

Henry Purcell

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Time period

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1692 (baroque)

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Type of music

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Incidental music

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Instruments

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Voice (solo)
Harpsichord
Bass Viol

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5
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Structure

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Ternary

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Bass feature

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Ground bass (ostinato in the bass)

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Tonality

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A minor with ambiguity in the bass part (chromatic writing)
Dissonance
Suspensions

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8
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Modulations in the B section

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E minor

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9
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Harmonic features

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Perfect cadences

Suspensions

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10
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Texture

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Homophonic (melody dominated)

Some contrapuntal parts

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11
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Time signature

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4/4

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12
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Tempo

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Adagio (slow)

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13
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Rhythmic features

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Rests in bar 7

Weak beat accents in bar 24

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14
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Organisation of Pitch (word painting)

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Word painting on “drop” (represents snakes dropping from Alecto’s head)
Word painting on “pains” (dissonance, relates to pain)
Word painting on “eas’d” (resolves dissonance)
Scalic
Descending shape

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15
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How is the returned section A different to the first A section?

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Added ornamentation, melody is slightly changed to allow it to end in A minor

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16
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Vocal melody

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Conjunct with some leaps
Syllabic
Passing notes and sequences

17
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Ornaments used

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Mordents
Apoggiaturas
Slides
Grace notes
Trills
18
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Rhythm of ground bass

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Semiquavers

19
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Rhythm of vocals

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Quavers and semiquavers

20
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Rhythmic features on harpsichord

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Tied notes

Dotted rhythms

21
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Dynamics and expressions

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None written in the score

22
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Type of chords

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Root position and first inversion, Augmented and diminshed triads

23
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Example of false relation

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Bar 1, F# and F natural

Bar 9, G# and G natural

24
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Where is there use of a tierce de picardie

A

Bar 23

The harpsichord plays a C# for the first time changing it from A minor to A major

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