Mozart Opera- Marraige of Figaro- Overture

Exposition elements

Texture- bars 1-7

thin texture- melodic focus (strings in 8ves - monophonic)

with accompaniment from the winds, creating a rich yet delicate sound.

Texture (7-18)

(b8-12) woodwind in antiphony with each other + cello tonic pedal

(b12) tutti homophony

Melody (1-7)

auxiliary notes, conjunct line, irregualr but arched phrasing, chromaticism, transposed melody, outlining tonic triad

Melody (7-18)

rising and falling melody, arpeggios/ broken chords and scalic descent

b18- counter melody

Instrumentation (1-7)

strings and bassoon

Instrumentation (8-12)

woodwind, horn and cello

Instrumentation (12-18)

tutti

Harmony and Tonality (1-7)

uses primary chords, outlining I and V

Harmony and Tonality (7-18)

b7- tonic pedal in cello

diatonic

b17- cadential 6/4