Purcell Elements for Music
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- Created on: 25-01-22 12:45
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- Henry Purcell Music for a While
- Instrumentation
- Solo. Voice
- Originally composed for countertenor
- AccompaniedBy lute, bass viol and harpsichord
- Known as basso continuo
- Recording sounds a semi tone lower than written pitch of A minor
- Solo. Voice
- Structure
- Piece structured as. A ground bass in Ternary Form
- Features. Of a ground bass include
- In a minor key
- A straightforward rhythm
- Unusual in this piece as ground bass is 3 bars long
- Slow tempo
- Ending with a perfect cadence
- Solemn mood
- Use of chromatic notes to give bass part melodic interest
- Features. Of a ground bass include
- Intro (1-3)
- Perfect cadence in bar 3 beat 4 confirms its in a minor
- Ground bass is:
- 3 bars long
- All equal quavers
- Slow
- Harpsichord RH is melodic
- Originally would have been figured bass as a realisation for harpsichordist
- Can be shown in bar 1-lower mordant
- Originally would have been figured bass as a realisation for harpsichordist
- Section A (4-21)
- Word painting
- Eternal bars 19-21 is long
- Wondering. Bar 10-11 gong in a descending scale
- Melisma
- Bar 16 free.
- Melisma
- Bar 13 perfect cadence on eas’d
- Melisma
- Bar 16 free.
- Dissonant intervals for feelings of pain
- E..g bar 12 beat 3 - soprano sings E over D minor chord
- Word painting
- Section B ((22-28)
- Stars in relative major C
- Bar 22 perfect cadence
- Bar 23 Tierce de Picarde on word snakes
- Word painting in 24 with ‘drop’
- Drama is also heightened by the fact Purcell places the short onomatopoeicWord on the off beat
- Section A1 (29-38)
- Conclusion and summary of teh song
- 35-38 is a reprise of bars 32-35
- Last chord is a spread arpeggiated chord
- Because harpsichord can’t sustain
- Conclusion and summary of teh song
- Piece structured as. A ground bass in Ternary Form
- Instrumentation
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