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Yr 10 Flashcards

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Orchestration

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  • Brass used in homophonic chords, fanfare like
  • Drums add rythmic momentum with repeated hi-hat in first chorus
  • Cymbal roll into chorus creating excitement
  • Strings sometimes tremolo for tension
  • Synth and glockenspiel used for magical sounds
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Rhythm, Metre and Tempo

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  • Vocal part mostly crotchets and quavers, sometimes long notes at phrase end
  • Rests break phrases, phrases start with a rest
  • Dotted rhythms throughout
  • Syncopation
  • Frequent rallentandos
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Texture

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  • Mainly homophonic
  • Sparse texture at the beggining
  • Coda is polyphonic
  • Ostinato accompaniement(Bar 88)
  • Homophonic chordal textures(Bar 132)
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Tonality

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  • Intro modulates a lot until reaching Dmaj at the verse
  • Unlimited section in Gmaj
  • Ambigious tonality at the beggining, chromatic descending scale
  • “Well are you coming” returns to chromatic melody of intro
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Melody

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  • Syllabic word setting
  • Leaps often a perfect 5th
  • Other times angular leaps e.g compund 5th (Bar 140)
  • Verse and chorus combine conjucnt and disjunct melodies
  • Melody is often legato for contrast to triumphant sections
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Music for a while

Melody

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  • Descending sequence e.g Bar 20
  • Rests used to break melodic phrases
  • Mostly conjunct
  • Repeated text
  • Lots of ornaments
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Music for a while

Word painting

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  • “Free the dead” in G maj
  • “Wondering” long legato melisma
  • “Pains were eased” features dissonance and resolution
  • “Drop” descending, detached
  • “Eternal” long mellisma
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Rhythm and Metre

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  • Occasional syncopation
  • Some dotted rhythms
  • Quaves and semi-quavers most common
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Harmony

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  • Right hand harpsichord plays a realisation from original figured bass
  • Suspensions occasionally used
  • Dissonance used for word painting e.g Pains
  • False relations particularly in ground bass
  • Perfect cadenced within ground bass
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Ground bass

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  • After 4.5 repeats the ground bass modulates, returns to home key in bar 29
  • Uses intervals of semitones
  • Ascending sequence within the ground bass
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Instruments

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  • Right hand harpsichord plays a realisation
  • Harpsichord and bass viol play basso continuo
  • Soprano singer, harpsichord, bass viol
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Music for a while

Background info

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  • Baroque era, 1692
  • Written for the play of Oedipus
  • The piece is incidental music
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Music for a while

Tonality

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  • Mostly A minor
  • Modulates frequently in the B section
  • C maj (Bar 22)
  • A major (Bar 23)
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Melody

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  • Text setting mainly syllabic
  • Backing vocals words and vocalisations (Bars 8-9)
  • Melody starts mostly conjunct
  • Verse and chorus combine conjunct and disjunct melody
  • Leaps often a rising major sixth (Bars 6-7)
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KQ

Texture

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  • Mainly Homophonic
  • Use of imitation
  • Use of layering
  • Three part texture guitar solo
  • Anitiphonal (Bard 67-68)
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KQ

Harmony and Tonality

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  • Eb Major
  • Most chords in root position, occasional inversions
  • Dissonance (Bar 30)
  • Circle of Fifths in Chorus (Bars 20-21)
  • Heavy use of altered or extended chords (F11 in Bar 47)
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KQ

Tempo and Rhythm

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  • 112 Beats per minute, moderate
  • In 12/8 compound quadruple time
  • Frequent syncopation
  • Could also be written 3/4 swung
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KQ

Background

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  • Released 1974
  • Glam Rock genre
  • Diverged from classic rock with adventorous harmonies and tonalities
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KQ

Instruments

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  • Freddie Mercury is a high tenor
  • Honky Tonk piano overdubbed
  • Guitar uses slides, bends, pull offs, hammer ons
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BC

Background

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  • Concerto Grosso (group of soloists)
  • Baroque
  • Chamber music - written for small group of musicians
  • Created as a job application to the duke of Margrave
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BC

Dynamics

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  • No dynamic markings for Harpsichord - no dyanmic range
  • Few dynamics markings, mostly comparitive - e.g violin plays quiter for flute solo
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BC

Structure

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  • Ternary form
  • A section is a fugal style
  • B section in relative minor
  • Fragments of A section melody in B section
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BC

Sonority/Instruments

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  • Unusual Virtuoso piano, scalic runs
  • Uses a baroque flute, wooden
  • String orchestra play ripieno
  • Soloists are concertino
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BC

Texture

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  • Flute and Violin play 2 part counterpoint at start
  • All soloists play 4 part counterpoint when playing together
  • Polyphonic with use of imitation
  • Uses many fugal techniques although it is not a fugue
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BC

Tonality

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  • Main tonality is D major
  • B section in B minor
  • Modulates to the V (Amaj) and V/V (Emaj)
26
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BC

Harmony

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  • Occasional Suspensions
  • 1st inversion and root position chords
  • Perfect cadences to mark end of sections
  • Uses standard Baroque chords (I,IV,V)
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BC

Rhythm,

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  • In 2/4, could be written in 6/8
  • Lots of triplets and dotted rhythms
  • Begins with an anacrusis
  • Harpsichord contains many fast semiquaver runs
28
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BC

Melody

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  • Ornaments - appogiaturas, trills
  • Scalic runs
  • Rising sequences
  • Lots of stepwise/conjunct movement
29
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SW

Melody

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Main theme:
* Bar 1, rising perfect 5th
* Bar 2 and 3 identical, leap of minor 7th
* Anacrusis
B theme
* Also anacrusis
* Ends with a descending Bb minor melodic scale
* Contrasting

30
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SW

Structure

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  • AABA structure
  • Follows action on screen
31
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SW

Background information

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  • A New Hope released in 1977
  • Uses Luke Skywalker Lietmotif
  • “Rebel blockade runner” supports action
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SW

Harmony

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  • When 2 planets show music is Bitonal
  • Uses some non-tonal chords like Ab Major in Bb Major key of A section
  • Intro to A theme has an inverted tonic pedal played in tremolo
  • B theme contains a brass dominant pedal
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SW

Texture

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  • Uses pedal textures e.g inverted tonic pedal or dominant pedal
  • A section accompanied by Block Chords or Appeggios
  • Mainly homophonic
34
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SW

Instrumentation

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  • Traditional style of romantic orchestra
  • Many instruments double melodies
  • Uses a full symphony orchestra
35
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SW

Tonality

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  • Bb Major
  • Dissonance when spaceships appear
  • Bitonality during action in ship
  • Switches to C major when planets appear
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SW

Rhythm,Tempo,Metre

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  • Homorhythmic Chords when Empire ship appears (like “mars”)
  • Theme A accompaniement, syncopated block chords
  • Tempo change when action appears
  • Both themes feature anacrusis

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