Music For A While
- Created by: ObeseSlav
- Created on: 25-01-22 12:53
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- Music for A While
- Personal
- Henry Purcell (1659-1695) - Baroque Period
- Chapel Royal at Westminster Abbey
- Made a lot of music in the "stile italiano"
- Trio sonata, double-dotted notes and da capo arias
- Made music for ceremonial events, and songs
- King Arthur
- Dido and Aeneas
- Oedipus
- Oedipus is where this piece is from - written by John Dryden, it tells the story of a boy who accidentally kills his father and sleeps with his mother.
- Henry Purcell (1659-1695) - Baroque Period
- Lyrics
- Written for countertenor
- Word painting (e.g. bar 10)
- Music reflects what the words are saying
- Types of lyrics
- Melisma
- Multiple notes per syllable
- Syllabic
- 1 note per syllable
- Melisma
- Introduction
- 3 Bars long
- Realised - Realisation of Figured Bass
- Ascending sequence
- Chromatic Notes
- Main
- Instrumentation
- Lute
- Bass viol
- Written for harpsichord
- Baroque pitch - semitone higher than our recording
- Section A
- Syllabic introduction with -mu
- Harpsichord - accompanying role
- Word painting + melismas
- Emphasis of ALL - repetition + ascending bass pattern
- Section B
- Relative major - C
- Sharpemed third on snakes
- Tierce de Picardie
- "drops" - onomatopoeic
- Section A1
- da capo arias - vocal line embellished
- final chord arpeggiated
- Untitled
- Instrumentation
- Personal
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