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Tchaikovsky

Tchaikovsky. Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture. Key Words. Overture – music usually heard in one movement before an opera. Programme Music – descriptive music which tells a story. Sonata form – Music divided into 3 sections Exposition Development Recapitulation. Tchaikovskys Style.

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Tchaikovsky

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  1. Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture

  2. Key Words • Overture – music usually heard in one movement before an opera. • Programme Music – descriptive music which tells a story. • Sonata form – Music divided into 3 sections • Exposition • Development • Recapitulation

  3. Tchaikovskys Style • Very creative and used lots of different combinations of instruments • He used lots of contrasting keys, tempi and textures in the music • He likes to write scale passages • He used sonata form

  4. Themes • Friar Lawrence • The Strife Theme • The Love Theme

  5. Themes

  6. Friar Lawrence Theme Friar Lawrence Theme heard 3 times:

  7. Frair 1st Time - Introduction • FRIAR LAWRENCE THEME FOR 1STTIME • F# minor • Heard in the Bassoons and Clarinets • Hymn-like • Homophonic • Low register

  8. Friar 2nd Time - Introduction • TRANSITION WITH THE FRIAR LAWRENCE THEME FOR 2ND TIME (bar 41) • F minor • Theme in flutes and oboes • Contrapuntal • Higher register • Pizzicato strings • Scale passages

  9. Friar Third Time - Introduction • LINK PASSAGE WITH A VARIED FRIAR LAWRENCE THEME FOR 3RD TIME • (bar 83) • E minor • Theme is in the woodwinds • Dynamics getting louder • Tempo getting faster • Tremolo strings • Timpani roll • Much more lively

  10. Strife Theme and Love Theme Exposition 1ST TIME WE HEAR THE STRIFE THEME: • flutes and violins playing in octaves (bars 112-115) • Homophonic texture (melody with accompaniment) • Loud volume • Repetition • Syncopation • Dotted rhythms • Fast tempo • Bminor

  11. Strife Theme and Love Theme Exposition • 2ND TIME WE HEAR THE STRIFE THEME: • D minor – G minor – B minor • Played as canon by cello and double bass and followed by piccolo/flute/oboe • Imitation at the octave and double octave • Distance of a minim • Canon is repeated a 4th higher • Because it is played as a canon…the texture is Polyphonic

  12. Strife Theme and Love Theme Exposition • 3rd TIME WE HEAR THE STRIFE THEME: flute violin and trumpet • B minor – D major • Louder dynamics ff • Brass join in • Timpani more involved

  13. Strife Theme and Love Theme Exposition • Love theme part 1: Coranglais(English horn) and muted viola (con sordini) in unison b184 • Key of D flat Major • Homophonic texture: melody on Coranglais and viola with • Syncopated horns in background • Wide leaps 1st time • Pizzcello and double basses • Rising harp arpeggio

  14. Strife Theme and Love Theme Exposition Lets look at LOVE THEME PART 2now • Love theme part 2: 1st violins………… • Continuous crotchets • Homophonic texture • Strings are divided into 4 parts(div) and muted (con sordini) • Wide leaps 2nd time • Repeated notes

  15. Strife Theme and Love Theme Exposition Gradually more instruments are added to thicken the texture Love theme part 1 again semi quaver scale introduction passage

  16. Strife Theme and Love Theme Exposition • Love theme in higher register in flute + oboe • Love theme part 1: flutes and oboes in a higher register………… • Love theme introduced by rising semiquavers in flute and oboe • Pizz cello and double bass • Rocking/Broken chords on violin and viola • No percussion • THE LOVE THEME PART 1 IS REPEATED exactly as the above but this time the Clarinets join in with the flutes and oboes • Bass trombone joins in • A short Codetta brings the section to an end with the harp playing crotchet chords

  17. DEVELOPMENT SECTIONFriar Lawrence Theme and The Strife Theme FRIAR LAWRENCE THEMEBminor to F sharp minor STRIFE THEME • Horn (later flute/clarinet) 7 BAR BUILD UP 2nd violin =strife rhythms • No key signature • Dialogue between strings/wood • Lots of semi-quavers • Pizzicato IN CELLO/D.BASS • Polyphonic texture • Sequences • Staccato violins

  18. DEVELOPMENT SECTIONFriar Lawrence Theme and The Strife Theme • 2ND TIME • FRIAR LAWRENCE THEMEG minor STRIFE THEME Horns strings • Exact repetition • 3 note Semi-quavers idea across orchestra • Sequences 326-330 • Crescendo

  19. DEVELOPMENT SECTIONFriar Lawrence Theme and The Strife Theme 3rd time FRIAR LAWRENCE THEME B Minor strife theme (rhythms) • Trumpets with orchestra accompanying • Syncopation in strife theme • Descending line in cello/tuba and bassoon

  20. Recapitulation section (bars 353-462)

  21. Transition to Coda • transition (bars 462-484) • C# minor to B minor • Strife rhythm • Loud drum roll brings recap to a close

  22. Coda

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