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Type of dance that follows a structured format with even phrases
Fear No Danger is this type of dance Pg 97 Reh Let 7
Formal due to strong dance rhythms and rondo form w/8 m phrases
Pantomine Dance Top melody line echoes while bass and inner voices are altered to create dissonance. Lacks regular rhythmic pattern, phrases or repetition
Harm’s Our Delight is an example of this Pg 122 Trk 15
This chorus is also a tuneful air (dance) in Act II. It occurs after Dido hears distant thunder conjured up by the Sorceress. It contains imitation and is sung SATB.
Haste, Haste to Town Pg. 146 Trk 23
Queen of Carthage Pg. 123 Trk 16 Sorceress is plotting the destruction of Carthage and its queen, calls in her evil companions to help her in her evil plans
In the form of a tuneful air and a chorus, this has a repeated binary form. Occurs in the middle of the hunt where the hunting party stops to take in the country’s beauty. A section is entirely homophonic, B section contains imitation.
Thanks to these lonesome vales Pg. 139 Trk 19
Attaching melodic decoration to the words they are meant to describe
Important method of setting English declamatory airs wherein two syllables are set with a dotted eighth followed by sixteenth note
Scottish Snap Example Pg 95 Trk 5 (Whence could so much virtue)
DAILY DOUBLE One of Purcell’s innovations lies in the sophistication of his harmonic methods. Listen to the following excerpt pg. 95 (trk 5) in your score and name THREE.
Examples could include: • Major on fierce m. 8 • C minor on soft m 7 • Melt the rocks goes into g minor both a flat and a minor key m. 11
Tuneful Air or Dance Two Part Air Dialogue Declamatory Air Chorus
An example of a dialogue (begins in declamatory style and ends with a simultaneous duet)
Your Counsel is all urged in vain Pg. 169 Trk 31
Purcell composed each scene in a single key (with some interruptions as we discussed). Below are the keys, you name what it represents. C minor
The key representing D & A mutual love for each other (Scene 2)
Dido’s Death Scene VI
Purcell’s use of tonality offers a clear indication of how Aeneas’s role should be interpreted. Name the two places where Aeneas’s entrance disrupts the tonality.
Shift to e minor in Scene II Page 101 m. 11 where Aeneas sings of his love yet the music contradicts this by modulating to e minor with the following chorus “Cupid Throws the Dart” in e minor. Tonality depicts the disruption caused by Aeneas’s arrival in Carthage as well as the disturbance that has occurred in everyone’s emotions. Shift to a minor in Scene IV Page 150 Reh Let 28 Trk 24 Fourth scene is in d minor and D major. However in the concluding monologue occurs in the key of a minor where Aeneas and the spirit (Mercury) brings on the command of Jove that Aeneas is to wait no longer in beginning his task of creating a new Troy on Latin soil. Aeneas consents to the wishes of the Gods, but is not happy that he will have to leave Dido.
What does Ah Belinda The Triumphing Dance Oft She Visits When I am Laid In Earth all have in common?
Name four pieces where a ground bass occurs See notes on page 36 and 37 of your binder
Definitions is a note from one chord which is held into the next chord as a nonharmonic tone and resolved. Example: When I Am Laid The Bb in measure 7 after Reh Let 38. (B b held over from g minor chord in m. 6 and resolves to an inversion of a D7 chord.
Used for laments in Italian Opera, most common uses a descending scale, diatonic or chromatic with a cadence.