VPMA93H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Vido, Sound, Heterophony
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Narrow range (only 5 notes used, span of 5th) Overall arch shape (gently, undulating in between) Pitches are very near to each other (only half & whole steps) Composer wants text to be very audible, religious piece. Very strong sense of a home pitch (not in common period, not major/minor) Written in church mode (anything written before 17th century was written in mode) Arien, harburg, over the rainbow range: medium (voice, just for an octave) contour: undulating (up and down) disjunctive motion, lots of leaps. 2 different types of patterns: major pattern, minor pattern (whole step, half step) Motive/motif (uses one little motive to generate very large amount of music) 1st (home pitch) and 3rd degree of scale that the motive is concentrated on. 5, first movement (1808) (short- short-short- long) 1st motive, entire rest of song based on this motive. Motive outlines fundamental pitch in 3rd degree. Alternatives to major and minor scales whole tone, chromatic.
