Purcell- Music For A While Flashcards

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Music for a while:background information (3)

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  • baroque era
  • 1692
  • written for play: Oedipus
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Music for a while:harmony (5)

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  • ground bass
  • diatonic
  • perfect cadences throughout
  • dissonances
  • Right hand harpsichord: elaborate realisation
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Music for a while:melody (6)

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  • Main a melody:soprano singer
  • mainly syllabic with melismatic sections
  • mostly conjunct
  • Ornaments: trills, appoggiaturas, grace notes, mordants
  • descending sequences bar 20
  • rests used to break up melodic phrases
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Music for a while:Word painting (5)

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  • “eternal”-long melisma
  • “drop”-repeated in a descending pattern
  • “free the dead”- bright key of G major
  • “wondering”-legato, melismatic melody
  • “pains were eas’d”- dissonance and resolution
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Music for a while:tonality (2)

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  • A minor: sad, sombre

- During the B section, modulates to several unrelated keys: E major, G major, C major, A major, A minor

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Music for a while:texture (3)

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  • homophonic
  • accompaniment: ground bass
  • Elaborate realisation on harpsichord may feel polyphonic
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Music for a while:rhythm and metre (5)

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  • 4/4 metre
  • ground bass uses repeated quaver rhythms
  • quavers and semiquavers
  • dotted rhythms and vocals
  • occasional syncopation
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Music for a while:instrumentation (4)

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  • soprano singer, harpsichord, bass viol
  • harpsichord and bass viol= basso continuo
  • viol and LH harpsichord play ground bass
  • RH harpsichord plays elaborate realisation
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