Vaughn Williams

Question 1

Vaughn Williams, Linden Lea

Answer 1

Folk song feel:
Simple tune, not virtuosic
Rising & falling ideas/movement

Question 2

Schubert, Erlkonig

Answer 2

German romantic art song
Word painting: music ends as child dies, Dom 7 chord into jokey perfect cadence

Question 3

Debussy, La Cathedrale Englontie

Answer 3

Modal harmony
Quartal harmony
Parallel chords
Pentatonic
Modal tonality

Question 4

Vaughn Williams, Charterhouse Suite

Answer 4

Rarely wrote for piano
Kalie dance (Irish) influence - common folk song influence

Question 5

Gurney, Steep from the 5 Elizabethan Songs

Answer 5

Pastoral countryside, England
Bredon Hill comparison: constant marling movement (repeating triplet semi-quaver notes in piano accomp) gives same feel

Question 6

Debussy, Le Soiree Les Dans Grenada

Answer 6

Parallel chords to create moorish & evocative mood

Question 7

Henry Purcell, What Power Thou Aret & Didos’ Lament

Answer 7

Both have:
Scalic & chromatic passages throughout
Descending chromatic & descending passages
Plodding backing, descending in a scale