Poulenc - Sonata for Horn, Trumpet and Trombone: movement I
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- Poulenc - Sonata for Horn, Trumpet and Trombone: movement I
- Background
- Composed in 1922
- Influences from Stravinsky
- Style - Neoclassical
- First movement of a three work movement
- Concert performance by proffesionals
- Rhythm and metre
- Quadruple time - 4/4 occasional 3/4
- Variations in tempo - central section has slow and fast sections - concluding section slow
- Acceleration
- Other features include:
- Syncopation
- Anacrusis
- Augmentation
- Rhythmic displacement
- Melody
- Largely diatonic
- Periodic phrasing reflects classical influences
- Opens with broken chord motif
- Larger leaps include octaves and 6ths...
- And at bar 36 two octave leaps in the trumpet part
- Ornamentation
- Major-minor fluctuations
- Harmony
- Use of functional progressions with cadences
- Neoclassical style evident - in the wrong note harmony
- Tonality
- keys clearly defined
- Use of modulation - helps define structure
- Structure
- Ternary form with coda
- 1-25 : Section A, G major modulating to D
- 26-57: B1 - E flat and B2 - B flat
- 57-85: Section A, G major incorporates part of B2
- Coda - chromaticism clouds key, last two bars clear that it is G major
- Instrumentation
- Written for...
- Horn in F
- Trumpet in C
- Trombone
- All parts require considerable skill to perform
- Written for...
- Texture
- melody dominated homophony
- Accompaniment split between trumpet and trombone
- Limited resources - lean harmonic support, broken chord patterns are used to supply this element
- Background
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