4. Walking bass- a type of bass line in which each bear of a measure is a different tone. The bass line is usually a conjunct type of melody that enables the bassist to go from one chord to the next.…
(C) the only Baroque Era form that continued to be used in the Classical Era.…
Label - NA-M.K-4.2 Performing on Instruments, Alone and With Others, a Varied Repertoire of Music…
8. The harmonic support for the elaborate solo melodies was provided by the bass line which usually consisted of two instruments, the bass and the piano.…
Codetta-marks end of sonatas, ends in a perfect cadence; not necessarily signals the end of the piece; a smaller version of a coda…
o 2. A popular technique was imitative polyphony (musical motives wandering from vocal line to vocal line within the texture imitating one another so that the same theme or motive was heard now in one voice, then in another, and so on throughout the piece.) 1:68…
Common meter, which consists of four lines of a particular number of beats that end in the rhyming pattern of a-b-a-b.…
|5.|cadence | |A place in a melody where a musician will most likely pause for a breath is at the |…
The first movement of the Sonata had the tempo of Allegro moderato. As the name states, the tempo is fast in comparison to the Preludes by Bach. The movement introduces the melody as darker and on the lower side of the piano. To offset the darker feeling, very few high not trills thrown into the mix. The dark melody is very brute and continues to crescendo and speed up. What comes to mind is a battle preparation scene in which the music increases to max volume for the battle itself. While the movement is increasing in tempo and volume, more notes are being added to create another melody. However, the piece starts becoming chaotic and incomprehensible till it abruptly ends. A single high note is repeated for a few beats, sounding like a bell chiming, which represents the start of the next movement Sostenuto e pesante. In comparison to Allegro moderato, Sostenuto e pesante is exceptionally slower and has a consistent melody and notes being played. Another melody is being added, but ever so often a chord is being played. The chord sounds purposely distorted to contradict the melody. Distorted chords become a prominent part of the piece but then recedes back to the constant melody. After a few measures, the movement ends and quickly goes to the next piece Allegro molto. Allegro molto is a higher and faster movement than Sostenuto e pesante. This movement is clearer than the ending of Sostenuto, with no…
What do you hear in this example that is rather unusual in a work for orchestra?…
use of the tritone - augmented 4th, creates tension and something bad is about to happen despite love story…
Showing improvment on the first movement, the Menuetto demonstrates muchnoting that each movement of the sonata is based around the tonality of A. This is unusual as there is typically a change considered the huge This sort of stylized Turkish military music, full of march rhythms and effects, was quite the vogue in Mozart’s day.…
For the following terms and concepts from lectures and the assigned chapters in Grout & Williams: please be able to:…
The baroque era in music saw an uprising in the technique of illustrating the significance of words through music. A basic example is using dissonance. The Messiah opens with a Sinfonia, a term that corresponds closely with with canzona and sonata; referring principally to orchestrated introductions to operas and cantatas, also known as an operatic overture. This work is divided into three parts reflecting a Christian worldview with the entire libretto coming from the Bible and is based mainly in the King James Version was first performed in Dublin on April 13th…
The performing resources for this cantata were a solo soprano vocalist accompanied by basso continuo. The published score contained only the simplest version of the singers melody. It was the performers responsibility to add in ornamentations and trills to decorate the melody line[1]. Similarly, the accompanist, playing the basso continuo part was required to realize…