AS Music Developing Musical Understanding Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms Thematicism, melody & line

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What we will be covering Themes & motifs Cells defined by interval Exposition bars How themes & motifs are defined

Exposition bars

The aesthetics of melody: melodic theme 1 Bar 1 Opening cadence motif Establishes what key? C minor Theme 1 How is the key confirmed? Tonic to dominant in bass B flat modal leading note

The aesthetics of melody: melodic theme 1 continued Dominum motif Establishes what key? C major How is this related to C minor? Tonic major False relation motif What two keys Are represented? C minor C major Bitonal Theme 1 Bar 7

The aesthetics of melody: melodic theme 1 Stravinsky’s melodic shapes are: Reduced or small Repetitive Narrow range Identify these melodic intervals

The aesthetics of melody: melodic theme 1 variation Theme 1 variation Sopranos & Altos Theme 1 as ostinato in Tenors & Basses Dominum motif Theme 1

The aesthetics of melody: melodic theme 1 variation Theme 1 variation Sopranos & Altos How is the variation achieved? Voices in parallel thirds Melody of theme extended Addition of A flat & C

The aesthetics of melody: melodic theme 1 variation Theme 1 as ostinato in Tenors & Basses How is the ostinato defined? Voices in parallel octaves Rhythm reduced to minims

The aesthetics of melody: Dominum theme Bars This theme is defined by Octave unisons Dotted rhythm DO – MI - NUM Text Cadence

The aesthetics of melody: false relation motif What intervals are predominant? Minor third C to E flat Major third E natural to C Minor sixth C to E natural Plus semitones & octaves

The aesthetics of melody: Dominum theme bars Dominum motif This employment of the Dominum theme bring s the section top a close Key?C major Harmonic device?Tierce de PicardieVoices in octaves

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More themes

Theme 3 Laudate DOMINUM theme Theme 3 What chord? C major Later becomes

Ostinato motif This theme is defined by 3 musical devices OstinatoChromaticism Triple time additive rhythm

Ostinato motif continued a 2? What does this mean?Bassoons 1 & 2 to play in unison poco sf What does this mean?Little sf

Melodic theme 2

Melodic theme 2: structure Stravinsky’s melodic shapes are: Reduced or small Repetitive Narrow range Identify these melodic intervals

Melodic theme 2: metric structure Additive rhythm implying what metre? 4444 Simple quadruple time

Melodic theme 2: metric structure and ostinato Compare the employment of additive rhythm Ostinato motif Melodic theme 2 Ostinato motif 3 4 Melodic theme 2 4 This metric device is commonly called? Hemiola

Melodic theme 2 & Ostinato: texture What textures are achieved between the Ostinato and Melodic theme 2? Ostinato motif Melodic theme 2 2 part counterpointHeterophony

B section bars Laudate DOMINUM Ostinato Melodic theme 2 Laudate DOMINUM Melodic theme 2

Ostinato Laudate DOMINUM Chorale motif

B section bars Laudate DOMINUM Ostinato Melodic theme 2 Laudate DOMINUM Melodic theme 2

Ostinato Laudate DOMINUM Chorale motif

B section bars New ostinato figure Variation? New material: triplet motif

Theme 2 variation

B section bars New ostinato figure Variation? New material: triplet motif

Exposition bars

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