grade 6 comprehensive classical

what key is per la gloria in?

G Maj (theres an F sharp)

what opera is per la gloria from?

Griselda -

what does andante mean?

walking pace

what does ¾ mean

simple triple time - three crotchets to a bar

what genre is per la gloria

baroque - ornamentation

other baroque composers

purcell, bach, handel (messiah), vivaldi (four seasons)

who is the composer of per la gloria?

giovanni battista bononcini

what are those > things

accents - those notes are more prominent

what does deciso mean?

decisive

what is the tr here

trill - ornamentation that adds to the baroque style

what is that little extra note

appogiatura - takes on the half value of the preceding note

what is the structure of per la gloria?

A section - per la gloria, B section - Amando penero, A section - senza spe me

what is that thing?

fer mata - pause (hold on this note as the vibe is right)

what is that piece of ornamentation?

accaciatura - a crushed quick note, doesn’t really take on the “half” weight of the previous one

what does dolce mean?

sweetly

what is a dominant/implying the dominant

the fifth note up from the root note - switching keys to that 5th note

what is the subdominant

the fourth note up from the root note

who composed she never told her love

joseph haydn, who used a sonnet from william shakespeare

what are the flattened notes in she never told

a, e, b, d

what key is she never told in

a flat major

what does largo assai e con espressione mean

slowly with expression

what are the downward facing triangles

very pronounced staccato

what is the fz here

fortzando - suddenly loud

cresc / crescendo

getting louder

what is that squiggle

crotchet rest

what is through composed

the music and words are different throughout the entire piece, as in she never told her love

what is strophic

the same music throughout but with different words, as in per la gloria

what genre is she never told her love

classical period

what are some other classical composers?

mozart (requiem), beethoven (5th symphony), haydn (surprise symphony)

what happens here

d natural implies e flat which implies a movement to the dominant (the base key being a flat major)

what is that symbol there

a mordent - crushed rapid movement between notes as ornamentation

what happens here

arpeggiation - the chord is separated out and sung/played one by one

is this a key change

no its chromatic

what does fp mean

forte piano - play loudly and immediately drop to quiet