A Level Music: Kinderscenen by Schumann: No 3
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- Created on: 12-06-14 15:25
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- Kinderscenen: No 3: Catch Me If You Can by Schumann
- Structure
- Rounded binary form (A: BA)
- Conventional notated repeat of opening 4 bars
- Rounded binary form (A: BA)
- Tonality
- B Minor
- Home key is regained after modulations by chords V7 and I of B minor
- Modulation to G Major: bars 9-10
- Modulation to unrelated key of C Major: bars 9-12 (hints Romanticism)
- Alternating C and G7 chords above double pedal on C and G
- B Minor
- Harmony
- Interrupted cadences: avoid establishing tonality: in G maj: bars 10-11 and E min: bars 12-13
- Music gets stuck on C chord: like disorientated blindfolded child
- Plagal progression (I-IV-I): first harmonic movement in number
- Perfect cadences: bar 20
- Appoggiaturas: bar 2
- 7th chords, mainly dominant 7ths
- Prolonged 'Neapolitan' chord in root position: bars 13-15
- 18th C progression reinterpreted in romantic context: Neopolitan flat supertonic, C major, approached via an interrupted cadence in E minor: bars 12-13
- Metre
- 2/4
- Rhythm
- Continuous semiquavers throughout
- Semiquaver arpeggio figures: keep momentum going
- Scurrying semiquavers: echoes 'catch me if you can' theme
- Each 2 bar phrase of melody starts with crotchet
- Broad rhythm of 'sforzandi' runs through piece every 2 bars: interrupted in bars 13-16
- Continuous semiquavers throughout
- Melody
- Sequence
- First 2 bars repeated in sequence, creating a 4-bar phrase which is repeated: bars 5-8
- Prominent flattened leading note, A natural, comes from use of descending melodic minor scale
- Rising sequence: bars 1-4
- Balanced by falling sequence: bars 9-12
- This carries music to C major (unrelated key)
- Balanced by falling sequence: bars 9-12
- Almost entirely conjunct, with leaps on accented notes: appoggiaturas: bar 2 and sforzano dominant 7th: bar 15
- Thematic use of figure of 4 conjunct semiquavers, ascending or descending: appears as a sequence in bar 2
- Sequence
- Textures
- Melody dominated homophony
- Difficult leaping accompaniment for LH to suggest jerky movement of blindfolded child
- 3 part texture: most active part is the top, bass line firmly on main beat and accompaniment on off-beat chords
- Bass and accompaniment both play active LH: stride manner
- Exception: open 5th double pedal: bars 13-15 and sustained chords with an inner ascending scale: bars 15-16
- Bass and accompaniment both play active LH: stride manner
- Structure
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