Tavener - The Lamb

Question 0

What is the form?

Answer 0

Strophic, ternary

Question 1

What is it written for?

Answer 1

SATB

Question 2

How many verses are there?

Answer 2

Two (1-10 then 11-20)

Question 3

What is the texture?

Answer 3

Monophonic Bar 1/3-4 showing innocent lamb

Entirely homophonic and mostly homorhythmic

Question 4

Where is there two part texture?

Answer 4

Bars 2/5-6

Question 5

Where are there octaves?

Answer 5

Bars 11/13-14

Question 6

Where are there two parts doubled at octave?

Answer 6

12/15-16

Question 7

What is the tonality?

Answer 7

The opening bars suggests G major

Question 8

What happens to the tonality in Bar 2?

Answer 8

An inversion is added suggesting Eb major, giving bitonal feel

Question 9

What Bars are in the Aeolian mode?

Answer 9

7-10

Question 10

What do the bitonal passages contain?

Answer 10

Numerous dissonances

Question 11

What is the joy sorrow chord and where is it found?

Answer 11

Am9 on ‘such’/’all’ etc always emphasised in the tenuto

Question 12

How is the word setting?

Answer 12

Almost entirely syllabic

Question 13

How is the range in the soprano part?

Answer 13

Very small Eb-B

Question 14

How is the dynamic range?

Answer 14

Very limited (pp-mp)

Question 15

What melody is it all based on?

Answer 15

The melody in Bar 1

Question 16

What is the Alto part in Bar 2?

Answer 16

An inversion of the melody

Question 17

What happens in Bar 3?

Answer 17

Original melody followed by inversion

Question 18

Bar 4?

Answer 18

Retrograde of the new melody

Question 19

Bar 6?

Answer 19

Alto part retrograde inversion of the new melody

Question 20

What is the music guided by?

Answer 20

The words

Question 21

What rhythmical device is employed at the end of each verse?

Answer 21

Augmentation (eg Bar 9-10)

Question 22

What is the metre?

Answer 22

Often 4/4 feel but no Time signature

Question 23

Give an example of a word on which a tenuto is employed

Answer 23

‘Made’ in Bar 1