Transcript JC Music Set Songs

JC Music Set Songs
Set C
Salve Regina
• A prayer deidcated to the blessed virgin Mary set in Plainchant.
• Plainchant is the oldest form of church music It is sometimes
known as Gregorian chant
• Words are usually in Latin.
Gregorian Chant.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK5AohCMX0U
Modal Music
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcllhFHAuwU
• Modal Music is essentially starting a melody on a pitch of the
scale and ending on that pitch too, you use the key signature but
you don’t end on doh your doh shifts to what ever degree of the
scale you have picked as your starting point.
• EG. C Major scale has C D E F G A B C
• IF YOU MAKE “D” THE DOH THE SCALE HAS NOW THE NOTES D E F
G A B C D WITH THE KEY SIGNATURE OF C MAJOR NO SHARPS NO
FLATS.
Musical Features of Salve Regina.
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Syllabic music. One note one syllable.
Mellismas - decorating the melody.
No regular beat like pop songs Free Rhythm
Dotted notes indicate to lengthen the note.
Monophonic unaccompanied music.
Mood is religious and revernant.
Tempo andante (walking pace)
Salve Regina
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B91RUv2lI8
Test
• What is the mood of this song?
• What is the tonality of this song?Major/minor or modal.. Explain in
as much detail as you can
• What is plainchant
• What is the Texture of this song?
• Is this song Syllabic or melismatic or both – explain your choice.
Art Songs
• A style of song where a poem is set to music by a known composer,
it will have instrumental accompaniment, most likely piano or
orchestra.
• The accompaniment will be like a duet and will most likely reflect
the mood of the words.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9ClvNQEc28
What do you hear?
• Using the following headings, analyze this song.
• Tonality, Mood, tempo, instruments, Melodic features, Rhythmic
features and articulations, form. Groups of 2.
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Caro Mio Ben Giuseppe Giordani 1753 - 1798
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Tonality Major (D Major) does change key to A throughout
Joyful mood
Tempo slow and dignified
Mezzo Soprano and orchestra sometimes piano.
Form ABA Coda.
Sequences
Descending step motion
Leaps and ornamentations.
Pause marks on score find them. Slurs (connected fluid notes)
Dotted rhythms.