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Peter Maxwell Davies Flashcards

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1
Q

8 Songs for a Mad King is?

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Music theatre or monodrama

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Text inspired by?

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Miniature organ once owned by the king

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Instruments involved?

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Flute, clarinet, violin and cello

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4
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Sat in?

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Huge cages

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5
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Representing?

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Birds with whom the king has extended dialogues

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Notation depicts?

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Speaking, screeching, screaming, whining, half speaking, harmonics, chords and overtones across 5 octaves

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7
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Reliant heavily on?

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Actor Roy Hart, for whom the piece was written for

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First thing to mention?

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Song 2, word “Strangling” set to a long melisma over a wide vocal range

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Song 3?

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First page set out like a bird’s cage

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Suggesting?

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He is talking to a bird

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Which is?

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The flute

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12
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Song 4?

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Lyrical approach

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13
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For?

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“Sweet Thames flow soft”

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14
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Lowest?

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Vocal tessitura in whole work

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15
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When singing?

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“Deliver me from my people”

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16
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Tone?

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Despairing tone

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Setting?

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Syllabic setting

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18
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Next good word painting in song 4?

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“I am alone”

19
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Why is it good?

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No vibrato or instruments, pianissimo and small vocal range

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Suggests?

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The king’s loneliness

21
Q

Song 5?

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Musical parody of baroque dances

22
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By using?

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A harpsichord

23
Q

Performance directions?

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“ululate like a dog”

24
Q

On?

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“Howls”

25
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Schizophrenic?

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“Scorn you”

26
Q

Suggested how?

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Octave leap

27
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Song 6?

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Rapid breathing effect in its first words

28
Q

Which are?

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“I am nervous”

29
Q

To suggest?

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The anxiety of the King

30
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Song 7? Instructions?

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“Like a female vocalist” & “like a horse”

31
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Parody?

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Musical parody

32
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How?

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Swung jaz piano, stride in LH, syncopation in RH

33
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More?

A

Tonal style

34
Q

Parody is?

A

Handles messiah

35
Q

Elements from?

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Baroque era

36
Q

How?

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Chugging quaver continuo and melismatic vocal line

37
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Chromatic?

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Bass line brier to entry of vocalist

38
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Country?

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Country foxtrot

39
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Irony when singing?

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“I will rule with a rod of iron”

40
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How so?

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Sung in high-pitched, thin voice

41
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Leads to king?

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Smashing the violin

42
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Piano?

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Note clusters in piano

43
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Song 8?

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Announces his own death

44
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How?

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Extremely sanely, keeper metaphorically beats him off-stage with leather straps on bass drum

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