1. AS Music Unit 3 Developing Musical Understanding Vocal Music John Tavener The Lamb Introduction, Pitch Organisation & Tonality

2. What we will cover in this session Tavener The lamb Introduction: text Introduction: the score Pitch organisation The Lamb: live performance

3. John Tavener The lamb 1982

4. Text Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee? Gave thee life, and bid thee feed, By the stream and o'er the mead; Gave thee clothing of delight, Softest clothing, woolly, bright; Gave thee such a tender voice, Making all the vales rejoice? Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee? Little Lamb, I'll tell thee, Little Lamb, I'll tell thee. He is called by thy name, For He calls Himself a Lamb. He is meek, and He is mild; He became a little child. I a child, and thou a lamb, We are called by His name. Little Lamb, God bless thee! Little Lamb, God bless thee! Symbolic Child-like imagery Stark simplicity Rhymes Half-rhymes William Blake

5. Songs of Innocence Christian imagery AA BB CC DD AA AA EF GG FE AA Poet & artists Metaphysical

6. Score conventions No metre 11 quavers 11/8 Why?Allows for a more naturalistic setting of the text

7. John Tavener The lamb Pitch organisation

8. Pitch organisation bar 1: implied tonality Bar 1 Rigorously simple Tonal centre? G Implied key? F sharp leading note G major?

9. Pitch organisation bar 1 & 2 Prime Version Bar 1 Bar 2 What is the relationship? Prime Version Inversion

10. Pitch organisation bar 2 Relationship? The intervalsgetprogressivelysmaller MajorMinorMajor Minor Prime + Inversion

11. Tonality bar 2 G tonal centre G major E flat major Tertiary relationship Bitonal

12. Pitch organisation bar 3 Bar 3 Intervallic structure Bar 2

13. Pitch organisation: the hybrid (bar 3) Bar 3 Bar 2

14. The hybrid retrograde Bar 3Bar 4 Hybrid Hybrid retrograde Adoption of serial principles

15. Hybrid; hybrid retrograde & inversion Bar 5Bar 6 Hybrid Hybrid retrograde Hybrid inversionHybrid retrograde inversion

16. John Tavener The lamb King’s College Choir

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