224 Week 6 Tutorial

Paisiello. Overture to Il barbiere di Siviglia

• Pedal bass until bar 8.

• Terrace Dynamics are utilised in the first page.

  • Terrace Dynamics are dynamics that build upon one another

Mozart Die Entführung aus dem Serail

Mozart used different/surprising instrumentation.

• Clarinet use was highlighted

• Bassoon use/solos

• Exotic Turkish percussion featured

• Piccolo in this piece to highlight an '“exotic Turkish” feel.

Mozart used scales and dissonance.

• This would have been surprising because a lot of classical period music was very consonant.

Lots of terrace dynamic use.

Emma Kirkby/Singing

Emma Kirkby is a famous singer who focused on earlier works.

• She did not use vibrato often in order to blend with the instruments around her.

  • She was one of the first singers to not use vibrato in her singing.

  • Her tone is very smooth because of this.

Vibrato was treated as an ornament rather than a default.

No two notes that she sings share the same weight.

Singers will use diction in phrasing by

stressing certain syllables.

• Strong vs weak syllables which then translates to stronger/weaker notes.

Messa di voce: A singing technique that involves gradually increasing and decreasing the volume of a sustained note.

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Appoggiatura Trills: Trills that start on the dissonance and go back and fourth before resolving to the dissonance.

• 90% of trills during the Baroque and Classical era were appoggiatura trills.

Old Instruments

Brass

• Brass instruments did not have valves.

• They were made just as a long pipe

• Notes were controlled by airflow.

• Horn players would stick their hands in their instruments to get different notes to appear.

  • For example C to C#