texture Flashcards
sinfonia and vivo
prominent characteristics is the rapid alteration between the loud tutti sections and quieter, mainly solo passages
sinfonia main texture
melody-dominated homophony bars 37-9
texture at beginning of sinfonia
treble-dominated homophony but with much fuller orchestration
sinfonia viola parts
occasionally doubles the violin tune, but down an octave
sinfonia has occasional
polyphonic sections
bar 7 sinfonia
polyphony
three-part texture in sinfonia
in bars 29-30
beginning of Gavotta texture
four part texture
homorhythm in gavotta
bar 23
broken chord textures gavotta
bar 50
beginning of variation 2 gavotta
solo bassoon has a contorted version of an alberti bass accompaniment
heterophony in vivo
bar 38, between flutes and trumpet
bars 17-18 sinfonia
melody and drone
bars 6-10 sinfonia
loosely imititative wind writing
vivo structure
typical of baroque music, it includes a bass part as an accompaniment