Purcell Trumpet Concerto - Movement 2 Flashcards
2nd Movement: What does the second movement bring in terms of contrast and mood?
Direct contrast after exhilaration of opening, mood changes and is gently expressive.
2nd Movement: What does the trumpet play and what is the current texture?
Trumpet is at rest and strings play in homophonic texture often in short gestures of 2-3 notes.
2nd Movement: How are these short gestures articulated and what affect does this have?
They are punctuated by rests which convey a thoughtful and melancholic sentiment, with a slow tempo, minor tonality and almost entirely conjunct melody.
2nd Movement: What is the current rhythmic movement?
Crotchets throughout.
Dotted patterns preceding cadence points.
Minims at phrase endings.
2nd Movement: What is the structure?
Binary form (A A’ B B’)
2nd Movement: What key does the first bar establish and what chord progression does it use?
B minor (the relative minor).
I Vb I progression with F# repeated in melody.
(Extra info: Major 3rd of the D tonic chord in end of first movement.)
2nd Movement: What does the second bar develop?
Stronger Vl V I progression with melody rising three notes by step as bass descends.
(Extra: this extends the breadth of texture.)
2nd Movement: How do the phrases continue to develop?
Two one-bar phrases followed by two-bar phrase, melody rising chromatically through D# for four notes before falling by diminished 5th to cadence.
2nd Movement: How is this D# chromaticism harmonised and how does it relate to the first movement?
By the secondary dominant (V of the IV), the melody is reminiscent of motif B.)
2nd Movement: How does the cadence end and whats so special about it?
Perfect cadence in B minor with 4-3 suspension in it.
2nd Movement: Bar 5-8 are a repeat of the same material, but how much higher are they repeated?
Pitched a fourth higher in the subdominant, or E minor, which subdues the mood (or dampens it.)
2nd Movement: Though the progressions are identical (in the key of E minor) how does Purcell create variation in the melody?
Melodic shapes of both outer voices are varied, using the falling diminished fifth to create a short descending sequence.
Rising minor 6th in bass now replaced by inversion, falling major third.
2nd Movement: How does this next cadence end and what modulation does it prepare for?
Cadence ends with Picardie third in preparation for modulation to A major in next section.
2nd Movement: How does the B section intensify emotion?
With a series of falling gestures in the melody and increasingly chromatic harmony exploring darker side of key spectrum.
2nd Movement: What is so special about the phrases in the B section?
All phrases begin with anacruses and melody is entirely conjunct, starting and ending with falling tones, but descending by semitones throughout bars 10-13.3.
2nd Movement: What are some particular features to note in this section?
As melody falls, bass tends to rise in contrary motion.
Sequence of appoggiaturas.
Repeated Cs in bars 11-13 which extend phrase.
Unresolved 7th in bar 11.
Vb7 in F in bar 12.
Augmented triad in bar 13 (IIIb in A minor.)
2nd Movement: How are these six bars repeated?
With expanded textural range, using the A major chord in bar 14 as the V of D major and exploring Bb major (a distant key.)
2nd Movement: How does Purcell switch back to D major in the final moments of this movement?
He uses another Picardie third to switch from D minor to final D major chord, preparing for tonality of next movement.
