Music for a While

Question 1

Music for a While

Answer 1

Purcell,

1692,

Baroque,

Solo with accompaniment,

Music for a play.

Question 2

Music for a While Melody

Answer 2

Stepwise movement with occasional leaps e.g. bar 37-38,

Frequent passing notes,

Range of a 9th,

Rests for effect,

Risings sequences e.g. wond’ring and falling sequences e.g. eas’d,

Mordents e.g. bar 11,

Appoggiaturas e.g. bar 5,

Grace notes e.g. bar 6,

Trills e.g. bar 13,

Arpeggiation e.g. bar 37,

Very short decoration notes,

Ground bass.

Question 3

Music for a While Dynamics

Answer 3

No dynamic markings,

Performers decided how to play it.

Question 4

Music for a While Word Painting

Answer 4

Melismas on wond’ring and eternal,

Repetitions of all to suggest lots,

Suspension for discord on pains,

Drop repeated to symbol snakes falling as they are cut.

Question 5

Music for a While Tonality

Answer 5

A minor,

Sometimes modulates to E minor in A,

B section G - C - A minor.

Question 6

Music for a While Structure

Answer 6

Ground bass,

3 bars based on a 4 note sequence,

Formed from rising 5ths and falling 6ths,

Climbs from A to E,

Ternary Form,

B 16 - 29.

Question 7

Music for a While Harmony

Answer 7

Alternate root position triads,

First inversion triads,

Augmented C,

Diminished B,

False relations, left plays then it appears in the right e.g. Bar 1

Question 8

Music for a While Instrumentation

Answer 8

Voice,

Bass Viol and Harpsichord accompaniment.

Question 9

Music for a While Rhythm

Answer 9

4/4,

Walking bass (quavers in the ground bass),

Syncopation in bars 23-25,

No tempo specified,

Counted in quavers.

Question 10

Music for a While Texture

Answer 10

Homophonic,

Melody and Accompaniment,

Harpsichord sometimes creates counterpoint with the vocals e.g. Bar 9 and 11.