Music for while

• What are the instruments used?

  Soprano

  Harpsichord

  Bass viol
• What key is it in?

  A minor (coloured by a tierce de Picardie)
• What ornamentation is used?

  Upper and lower mordent

  Grace notes

  Appoggiaturas

  Trills
• What does the left hand of the harpsichord play?

  Ground bass
• What also plays the ground bass?

  Bass viol
• What is the vocal line mainly after speech rhythms?

  Syllabic
• What is paired in the vocal line?

  Slurring
• Where are the melismatic moments?

  Bar 10 (wond’ring) showing a wistfully descending legato melody
• What melodic device is used?

  Conjunct
• What structure does this piece follow?

  Ground bass
• Features of the ground bass:

  It is three bars long.

  entirely quaver rhythms.

  arpeggio

  semitone intervals.

  At the end there's a fall of an octave.
• What does the central section modulate to?

   

  These include E minor (bar 14), G major (bar 16), C major (bar 21), A major (bar 23), E minor (bar 27).
• How are modulations confirmed by?

  Perfect Cadence
• What harmonic device is used in the chords?

  Diatonic and functional
• What is the metre?

  4/4
• What type of rhythm is used in the vocal line?

  Dotted rhythm
• What was the texture of the piece?

  Homophonic
• What are some baroque lament characteristics?

  Minor key

  Slow tempo

  Ground bass

  Falling phrases

  Suspensions

  Dissonance

  Word painting
• What collective name is given to the 2 instruments that play the accompaniment?

  Basso Continuo
• What type of voice is singing the melody?


  Soprano
• What structural device is played on the bass viol and harpsichord?

  Ground Bass
• List all the performance forces heard in the piece.

  Soprano Voice Harpsichord Bass Viol

  
• Describe the text setting of the song.

  Mainly Syllabic with extended melismas
• What is a ground bass?

  A repeating bass line
• What is word painting?


  Where the music follows the meaning of the words
• What music period was this piece composed in?

  Baroque
• List 3 features of the ground bass

  Octave leap at end, Perfect cadence, all quavers
• How is word painting used on the word "wond'ring"?

  Long melismatic
• What instruments play the ground bass?

  Harpsichord LH bass Viol
• What device is heard on the word "pains"?

  Dissonance/word painting
• What is a Tierce de Picardie?

  Major chord in a minor section
• What harmonic device is heard on "snakes"


  Tierce de Picardie
• Feature of pitch and rhythm of the ground bass

  Octave leap at end - all quavers
• What is the tonic key?

  A minor
• Describe the general chords/harmony

  Functional and diatonic
• What harmonic device is heard at the end of the ground bass?

  Perfect cadence
• What instruments play the accompaniment?

  Bass viol and harpsichord
• Describe the how the word wond'ring is set


  Long melismatic
• What musical device is heard on the word "pains"?


  Dissonance
• What interval is heard between the words "music" and "music" at the start?

  Perfect 5th