Corelli - Trio Sonata in D
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- Created on: 21-12-15 10:26
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- Corelli -Trio Sonata in D
- Background:
- Published in 1689 - mid Baroque
- Requires 4 players even though it is a trio sonata
- It is the last of a 4 movement sonata
- Published in 1689 - mid Baroque
- Structure:
- Binary with each section repeated
- Tonality:
- D major with modulations to related keys
- B minor - bars 27-28
- E minor - bars 31-32
- B minor - bars 27-28
- A major - bar 19
- D major with modulations to related keys
- Background:
- Rapid, compound duple time (6/8) - Style of a Gigue
- Rhythm and Metre:
- Syncopation - bars 26-27
- Feeling of 3/4 in bar 27 because of a hemiola
- Syncopation - bars 26-27
- Rhythm and Metre:
- Basic motif composed of 3rds and stepwise movements
- Melody:
- Inversion - bar 20
- Sequence - bars 8-10
- Inversion - bar 20
- Melody:
- Harmony:
- Functional
- Diatonic - mainly root position and 1st inversion chords
- Perfect cadences
- Suspensions
- Inverted pedal - bars 15-18
- Functional
- Texture:
- Idiomatic violin writing - although avoids lower register and anything above 3rd position
- Polarized - 2 high violins with low bass
- Broadly contrapuntal with fugal elements
- Frequently homorhythmic - bars 3-4
- Stretto - bar 20 - imitation after one bar
- Frequently homorhythmic - bars 3-4
- Broadly contrapuntal with fugal elements
- Polarized - 2 high violins with low bass
- Idiomatic violin writing - although avoids lower register and anything above 3rd position
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