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Deane

Seachanges. Deane . Contrast between Pacific and the Atlantic oceans Shakespeare – The Tempest Mexicans obsession with death. Inspiration. Violin Cello Piano Flute/Piccolo Percussion – Gong, cymbals, tambourine, bass drum Percussion – Crotales , maracas, guiro, marimba, rainstick .

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Deane

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  1. Seachanges Deane

  2. Contrast between Pacific and the Atlantic oceans • Shakespeare – The Tempest • Mexicans obsession with death Inspiration

  3. Violin • Cello • Piano • Flute/Piccolo • Percussion – Gong, cymbals, tambourine, bass drum • Percussion – Crotales, maracas, guiro, marimba, rainstick. Instrumentation

  4. Prominence to percussion instruments • Players asked to play maracas • All 5 players play maracas at end • String players make percussive style sound • Left hand pizzicato • Snap pizzicato where string slaps quickly back against fingerboard • Col legno – strings played with wood of bow • Sulponticello – above bridge and sultasto – bowing on fingerboard • Cello strummed like a guitar • Clusters played on piano • Strings play harmonics • Harmonics played on cymbal • Cymbal arco – played with bow • Double stopping – play two or more notes at same time. Unusual Performing Techniques

  5. Atonal • Some sections have a tonal centred on open notes of strings C, G, D, A • Section 5 Eb unusual tonality • Loosely rondo form • 3 different musical ideas • 3 note cell – G,A,C • Rhythms associated with Dance Macabre • Quotation from Dies Irae Tonality and Form

  6. Form

  7. IntroductionConjuring up images of heat and desert

  8. A1Play version of theme based on 3 note cell

  9. A1Main Melody and Inversion

  10. TotentanzRhythmic section where all instruments play the Totentanz rhythm

  11. A214 bars of main melody Violin and Inversion on Cello with flute countermelody

  12. Dies IraeBased on an inversion of Dies Irae

  13. A313 bar duet for flute (Main Melody) and piano (inversion)

  14. CodaFinal section combines Totentanz and Dies Irae – ends with all performers playing maracas

  15. Inversion – turn upside down • Subtraction principle – begin with 6 notes, then repeat leaving one out to 5 then 4, 3, 2,1 • Addition – adding notes • Augmentation – to make note values longer • Diminution – shorten the values of notes • Canon – a melody imitated by one or more parts • Retrograde – melody played backwards Compositional Features

  16. Unusual time signatures – 7/4, 5/4, 8/8, 10/8 • Changing time signatures • Rhythms associated with Danse Macabre • Tempo Changes – between 80 and 120 bpm • Cross rhythms b163 and b166-167 • Complex rhythmic patterns b76-84 • Rhythmic counterpoint between maracas b70-72 Rhythmic Features

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