The document includes summarised notes on the area of Secular Vocal Music, 1600 to the Present Day, in the A2 3 unit: Responding to Music.
The content of the notes is drawn from Factfile, the Eguide provided by CCEA, and some additional sources.
The majority of the notes of the setworks are set...
Copland : simple Gifts and I bought Me a cat from old American songs
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Weekes : Thule the period of cosmography and The Andalusian Merchant
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Handel : I Rage and 0 Ruddier than the cherry from Acis and Gaeta
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Schumann : wid mung ( Ab
major ) and Ich Groene Nicht Cc major)
vocal style
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reutitnea
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chorus
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lastinthefirstsetotold American songs
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Humour established from the outset by
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trombone acciaccatura ( glissando) -
sudden accents Yonder tree
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unpredictable rests b. 133¢
use of extreme contrasts of dynamics -
Sf → p
Changing metre Yonder tree b.
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- Main melody is pentatonic + melodytunderlying chords clash
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While Fmajortlmiuor chords are perfectly ordinary ,
the Bbinthe cello
against the C. in the voice and
the 9th chord add dissonance
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Imperfect cadence formedbyanfmajorchord
over a Bb and Cmajor Chord including D
① Cat ② Duck ③ Goose
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Trombone glissando -
muted brass -
hand stopped horn
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⑥ Cow ① Horse
staccato off-beat ihordsinmntedbrass high register woodwind
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double basses join cellos _
pizzicato violins
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Semiquaver staccato melody now in violins _
pizzicato double basses donblesarcocellos
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Dbmajorchordiu 1ˢᵗ inversion -
dissonance Etf
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,2022: Describe how animals are depicted musically by Copland
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: I bought Me a cat, with reference to
harmony , orchestration and the treatment of melody
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Abmnjor
Simple Gifts
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Joseph Brackett -
Ternary form
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first set of old American
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songs for low voice + piano -
Shaker
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1950-1 orchestrated in 1954 Communities
(Inthe Opening bars/ first verse /
Introduction / First Zbars Melody
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in octaves -1 without accompaniment Baritone soloist
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played byflnteioboeilllarinetsih octaves → strings-1 Woodwind
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lstclarinetinhigh register exploits sonority provide an accompaniment
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key of Ab
major consisting of sustained
recurring chords
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b. ↳ b. 3 perfect cadence -
motif
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chords are all
Although these
major + minor triads within key of Ab , Lin root )
they do not coincide with the / main beats
melody
thereby producing dissonances
b.io/A-theendotthererse )
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Cellos doubled by bassoon
Strings supported by harp chords
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→
Chorus
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Whetstine
simplicity is gained
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woodwind again in octaves
chorus
prefigure first 2barsot
↓
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first zchordfromsame
Perfect cadence
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Chords changing on the
off -
beats of the bar
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Orchestration of
Till by turning , turning ,
/ Chorus
b. v2
- unison violas + clarinets
anticipate first 2 bars
→
↓
reprise
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harmonisation is same as before
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only orchestration diff
lil double bass included
Iii ) flute t oboe added to wind chords
↓
brief coda
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repeated patterns in violin
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sustained muted brass chords
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use of upper strings
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Harp harmonics
↓
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reference to melody in
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perfect
cello -1 bassoon cadence
,2018 : comment on simple Gifts with reference to
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presentation of the melody t orchestration
, Weekes : Tnnele The Period of
, cosmography / The Andalusian Merchant
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English Madrigal
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1580 and 1620
acapellq
Characteristics of this genre
:/ Thule
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written for between 3-6 solo voices 6 Voices ↑
Texture imitative , some homophonic Thule
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predominantly
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passages
Through composed [ each section of the text is set to new music)
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Each line 1- text treated separately
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using rhythmic + melodic motifs
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Word painting Ascend not higher Flying Fishes
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Final section of Madrigal is often in Andalusian merchant
repeated with Lvpperparts
The period of cosmography
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Thule modulate to
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parallel 3%6-14
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new musical idea shift to relative minor (c)
EbM%°r→
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using Gmaj -16m chord syllabically
consisting 2perfect 4th →
introduced by 2 + continuous Quaver
soprano
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movement
immediately immituted -
melisma tic
by all voices -
contrary motion
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" Doth melt the frozen clime
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Thaw the sky " →
Eb C Fm Db Abloverlaps) -7 -
different voice pairings
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Progression otchorus
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