Purcell Flash Cards

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Tempo

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No tempo indication, but it is slow.

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Time signature

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4/4 or simple Quadruple time.

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Syncopation

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Playing on the offbeat or the space between beats, used fairly frequently.

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Note types

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Mainly quavers and semiquavers.

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Dotted rhythms

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Example in bar 10.

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Ground Bass

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Entirely in quavers, a repeating rhythmic pattern (ostinato) in the lower register.

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Baroque period

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A period of music from 1600 – 1750.

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Henry Purcell

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1659 – 1695.

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Music for a While

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Second of four movements written as incidental music for John Dryden’s play based on Sophocles’ Oedipus.

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Ternary Form

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ABA1 structure with a shortened 2nd A section (A1) which is altered.