Vaughan-Williams - On Wenlock Edge

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Music

A-Level Music

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Melody

  • Modal

  • Pentatonic

  • Opening vocals has restricted range

  • Repeated notes to emphasise power of the gale

  • Voice descends chromatically

  • Rapid arpeggios add to mood as do trills

  • Mainly syllabic, some melismas

  • String trill acts as drone

  • Use of whole tone scale

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Harmony

  • Parallel first inversions

  • Dissonance at ‘gale’ - word painting

  • Parallel sixths

  • Chromatic chordal movement

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Rhythm/Metre/Tempo

  • Triplets and sextuplets

  • Cross-rhythms

  • Hemidemisemiquavers

  • Rhythmic augmentation

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Texture

  • Melody dominated homophony

  • Piano doubles strings

  • Reduced texture towards the end

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Tonality

Tonal centre on G

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Instrumentation

  • Piano quintet with tenor voice

  • Tremolo

  • Sul ponticello - word painting

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Dynamics/Articulation

Dramatic dynamic contrasts

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Structure

AABBA/B