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Canon - Background - Johann Pachelbel - Written in/around 1680 - Published in 1920's Allegretto - Background - Work in symphony began in 1811 and finished in 1812 - First performance in Vienna in 1813 - Four movements - Allegretto - "a little lively" - Symphony no.7 - 2nd movement Previous Play Next Rewind 10 seconds Move forward 10 seconds Unmute 0:00 / 0:15 Full screen Brainpower Read More Mars - Background - Written by Gustav Holst - English composer - His music is characterised by use of irregular metres, pounding rhythms along with unusual haunting melodies - Planets is a 7 part suite written between 1914 and 1917 - Mars is the first movement Dies Irae - Background - Written by Karl Jenkins - Medieval poem describing the day of judgement - Ethnic percussion used - SATB choir A Midsummer Night's Dream - Background - Mendelssohn - German composer - Inspired by play - Written originally (at age 17) as a piano duet in 1826 - Overture is an instrumental composition written as an introduction to a work Peer Gynt - Background - Grieg - Nationalist composer - Uses or reflects the folk music of his country in his music - Author of play - Henrik Ibsen - First performed in 1876 Davy Jones Theme - Background - Worked on over 100 film scores - Most notable for combining electronic music sounds traditional orchestral arrangements Dr Who Theme - Background - Written in 1963 by Ron Grainer - Worked with Delia Derbyshire from BBC radiophonic workshop - A single plucked string was the source of the manipulation - Murray Gold rearranged it with additional orchestral sounds Messiah - Background - George Frederic Handel - German - English composer - Composed in summer of 1741 - First performance in Dublin in 1742 - Part 1 - Prophecies from O.T. - Part 2 - Concerns Christ's suffering & death - Part 3 - Relates to 2nd coming of Christ The Erl King - Background - Schubert - Composed over 600 Lieder - Setting of a poem by famous German poet Goethe - Song is "through-composed" Wicked - Background - Stephen Schwartz - American musical theater lyricist & composer - Won Grammy for wicked Run - Background - Original band was called "Shrug" in 1994 - Gary Lightbody, Nathan Connolly, Paul Wilson, Jonny Quinn, Tom Simpson - Fiction records company - Album - "Final Straw" Characteristics of Baroque period and when it was - Dotted rhythms - Contrast of homophonic and polyphonic textures - Use of ornamemtation - Terraced dynamics - Characteristics of classical period and when it was - Changes in dynamics were more gradual - using crescendos and diminuendos - Simpler textures - Harpsichord often replaced piano - Characteristics of romantic period and when it was - Music is intensely emotive and there is greater freedom - Dense textures - Orchestra expands - Characteristics of 20th Century and when it was - Large orchestra - Contrasting dynamics - Motifs - 1910 - Present Canon - Characteristic, time signature and period Contrapuntal 4/4 Baroque Canon - String progression Crotchet pattern, scalic semiquaver pattern, demisemiquaver patterns Allegretto - Period, time sig. and key Classical 2/4 A major Allegretto - Scored for: Classical orchestra - 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani and strings Allegretto - Analysis - Opens with an A minor chord played by oboes, clarinets, bassoons and horns - Begins f and fades to pp - Theme 1 is stated p by violas - Violas, cellos and double bass introduce theme 2 while 2nd violins continue with theme 1 - 1st violins take theme 1 an octave higher - Gradual crescendo - Oboes and bassoons add off-beat chords - Full orchestra tutti ff then diminuendo - Two bar cadence repeated quietly by oboes, clarinets, bassoons and horns - One beat silence leads into next part in A major - Theme 3 played by clarinets and bassoons Mars - Tempo, Time signature and period Allegro - Fast and lively 5/4 Romantic Mars - Analysis - Ostinato starts in timpani, harps and strings (col legno - wood of the bow) - Slow moving motif in bassoons and horns - Imitation is used (trumpets) - Theme played by flute and clarinet - Chromatic motif - Use of trumpets, bass and snare drum to create chaotic, war effect - Chords are dissonant Dies Irae - Time signature, key and period 4/4 D minor 20th century Dies Irae - Instrumentation Japanese flute, horns in F, timpani, harp, strings and percussion players using conventional and ethnic percussion Dies Irae - Analysis - Begins FF - 8 bar introduction in tonic key - 2 bar bass ostinato to theme is played in lower strings and accompanied by bass drum and tam tam - Relentless triplet upper string accompaniment - 2 quaver horn motif - Homophonic texture - Tuba Mirum rising in sequence - Syncopated horn motif, prominent cymbals builds towards thunderous and abrupt climax