dance influence

Stamitz Op.3 No.2:

• Very traditional minuet and trio as the third movement (dance movement to break up fast-slow-fast italian overture form)

• Standard reduction of forces in the trio to strings, oboes and horns

• Another old fashioned feature is that the B section of the rounded binary minuet starts a s new idea, instead of development before the return of the A section

CPE Bach’s Symphony in E minor:

• Minuet and trio wasn't common yet

• Followed fast-slow-fast overall form

 

Haydn No.31:

• Dance influences used in second movement

• Siciliana (baroque dance form) with 6/8 metre and lilting rhythms

• Third movement also useless a traditional minuet and trio

Mozart No.40:

• Minuet and trio third movement

• Triple time dance feel is disrupted by frequent syncopation and hemiolas

Haydn No.104:

• Ty;ical minuet and trio third movement

• However, offbeat accents and hemiolas disrupt  stately 3/4 feel

• Characteristic two quaver anacrusis

• Instrumentation in the trio at bar 65 reduces down to strings, oboe and bassoon

• Fourth movement also contains folk dance influences

• Melody at bar 3 influenced by Oj Jelena Croatian folk melody

• Characteristic stamping rhythm of two accented minims used throughout and first used at bar 6

Beethoven No.3:

• Beethoven moved away from tradition

• Movement 3 became a scherzo and trio

• Allowed it to be more fast and aggressive with greater focus on rhythm, drive and energy

Beethoven No.6:

• Third movement is a scherzo and trio

• Unusually trio is played twice creating 5 main sections with a shortened repeat of the scherzo

• Programmatic - movement called ‘Peasant Merrymaking’

• More influenced by ristic peasant dances, contrasting the refined courtly minuet

Mendelssohn No.4:

• Did not continue the move away from tradition returning to a minuet and trio for the third movement

• Finale fourth movement takes influences from Italian folk dances

• Saltarello

• Also contains characteristics of a Tarantella (fast, triplet rhythms), a fast dance traditionally connected with being bitten by a spider

• The drones at bar one support the folk dance influences

Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique:

• Composers began using other dance styles to influence their symphonic works

• Waltz second movement transforming idee fixe into 3/4 metre to reflect programmatic nature of seeing his love at a ball - ‘Un Bal’

• In final movement, idee fixe returns as a ‘vulgar dance tune’ on the Bb clarinet at bar 222 and the witched round dance motif is repeatedly stated in strings then interrupted by 3 syncopated notes in the brass