Music for a while Purcell Past paper questions

What is the tonality of the extract?

Minor

Give some musical features from the Baroque period

-ornaments such as mordents and trills
-use of harpsichord
-basso continuo
-Ground bass
-diatonic harmony
-terraced dynamics

How does Purcell achieve variety on the repeated words "shall all"?

melismatic on "all"
rising and falling intervals
repetition on "all" which is word painting

what is the time signature?

simple quadruple

Describe the bass line

-uses ascending 5ths alternating with descending 6ths
-use of ground bass and ostinato
-walking bass
-played by bass viol
-all in quavers
-3 bars moving upwards then repeated
-based on a four note sequence

What two instruments play in the continuo?

harpsichord and bass viol

what two ornaments can be heard?

mordents and appogiaturas

what is the melodic device used on the word "wondering"?

Melisma