Flashcards on Key notes

Structure:

What is the form of the piece - ABA, ‘Ternary form’

Resources:

1. List the instruments used in the piece.

2. What type of voice is singing

1. .

   • Bass Violin

   • Harpsichord

   • Vocals

2. Soprano - high female voice

Ground Bass: (2)

Describe the ground bass throughout the piece

• Popular decide among the Baroque

• 3 bars long, based on a sequence of 4 notes which contain intervals of rising 5ths and falling 6ths.

• Heard 12 times in the composition

Melody - 2

• consists of ‘descending’ and ;ascending passages’

• Small range of notes - 9

Tonality

• Tonality of the piece: A minor

• Section A: Starts on tonic notes A minor

• B: G major

Harmony:

• mainly root position chords

• Chromatic notes in ground bass

• Dissonance

• Tierce de Picardy

• Perfect cadence at the end of each phrase.

Texture + Dynamics

• Homophonic

• Dynamics not written in the score (performers are expected to know which dynamics to perform and include.

• Imitation - repeating of a melodic line.

Metre and Rhythm:

4/4

Ground bass in quavers through

jus read thru one note.