Stylistic Features of set works

FLow my tears, John Dowland

• lute, harpsichord and counter tennor (instrumentation) 
•  lack of dynamics written  
•  phrygian cadences typical of renaissance music 
•  word painting was often used in renaissance for example happie being the highest note in the piece 
•  melancholly important in the elizabethan england, which is a huge feature of flow my tears 
• vocal range has fairly narrow range of a 9th modality is  end of bar 1-beginning of bar 2 E suspension,bar 2 G#-G natural false relation ,bars 12-14 the vocal solo is imitated by the lute

• no percformance marks: expected to know
• the partita, popular dance suits in boroque period
• ornaments some but not many, as the musicians add their own on repeat
• as most boroque pieces the dances are in the same key
• gigue has fugal texture like many boroque gigues
• regular four bar phrases 
• rounded binary and binary from are typical of the boroque period

• periodic phrasing (equal length phrasing sounding like questions and answers. 
• clear harmonic progressions centered on 1 and V⁷ with regular cadences to define keys. 11-V⁷-1 in bars 35-36.
• appogiaturas (fully written not as grace notes) chromatic and diatonic. 
• melody-dominated homophony although with plenty of interest in the accompanying parts.  
•  rondo 
• instrumentation: clear string ensemble two violins one viola and one cello - homogonous sound

• twelve tone row retrorade, 
• inversion, retrograde inversion, forwards. angular intervals atonal 
• contrupuntal but very little does more than one instrument play at one time, except the climax

•  strong back beat, with drum using cross stick technique
•  strong bass guitar regular and steady playing on the first beat, unlike reggae.
•  all root chords simple chord progressions stays in Db major throughout 
• hook, with chords 3-2-1  
•  pentatonic scale (melody) and backing vocals with a range of a 6th 
• trumpets add a south american feel from naibouring contries to home jamaica. 
• verse-chorus structure hypnotic alternations between chords 1-1V

• four simple chord progressions, one from pacabelles cannon slightly altered towards the end regular 
• four bar phrases
•  lyrical flowing melody especially in chorus to make it easy to sing along 
•  clear influences in the introduction (imagin) from other british bands, like beatles
•  instrumentation: drums guitar bass and vioce. (voice doubled over to add strength common in brit pop) 
• mancunion band members  
•  simple root position chords 
•  verse chorus structure 
•  lyrics with nostalgic tale of a relationship that has faded away. 

• strong dynamic contrast 
• chromatic ascent in section B 
• false relations,
• prepared and unprepared suspensions, 
• notes of anticipations 
• SATB a capella 
• two imperfect cadences one perfect cadence.