Poulenc Bar 22 to the end

Poulenc Bar 22 to the end

This asynchronous lessons will cover the main developments in the piece from bar 22 to the end in preparation for a quiz on this section on Thursday

What have we heard up until now?

Some fairly traditional melodic ideas

A mixture of diatonic classical harmony and neoclassical ideas such as the use of octatonic scales

Movement through a variety of key centres

Multiple Choice

What key have we reached at bar 23?

• B minor

• A minor

• Bb major

• Bb minor

Multiple Choice

What chord in bar 22 allows us to move to B minor?

• E#7

• F#7

• B major

• F major

Multiple Choice

What do we call this type of temporary key movement?

• Modulation

• Tonicization

Multiple Choice

What is the harmonic rhyth of bars 23 to 25?

• None

• 2 chords per bar

• 3 chords per bar

• 1 chord per bar

Multiple Choice

What type of descending scale are the Oboe and Bassoon playing in bar 26 ?

• A melodic minor

• A harmonic minor

• An octatonic

• A chromatic

Multiple Choice

How can we describe what is happening here in bar 30 ?

• Descending major 7th chords.

• Ascending dominant 7th and German 6th chords.

• Descending dominant 7th and German 6th chords.

• Descending minor 7th chords.

Multiple Choice

What is Tierce de Picardie?

• A major chord of the tonic at the end of a musical section

• A minor chord of the tonic at the end of a musical section

• A major chord of the tonic at the end of a piece

• A final major chord at the end of a piece of music

Tierce de Picardie

While it’s not that common to see Picardy thirds in the middle of a piece, it makes sense to do this when modulating from one key to the next. Pieces that start in a minor key and want to make the transition much smoother will sometimes cadence on the major tonic of the minor key, and then proceed to start a new section on the dominant of the new key.

Most often this takes place when using parallel majors. Ideally, a piece won’t employ too many Picardy thirds as it could give a false sense of conclusion.

Multiple Choice

What two chords are used in bar 49?

• A7 to G

• B7 to D

• C7 to F

• F7 to C

Multiple Choice

What two chords are used in bar 50?

• C# major to D min

• C# minor to D maj

• C# 7 to D maj

• C# dim 7 to D min

What you should now do

With the rest of your time you have in this lesson you should create a series of revision cards or list that identifies each important development by bar from bar 23 to the end. You can then use this to revise for the test on Thursday. If you refer to the annotated score in the revision notes folder I shared with you, you will see that from the start of the B section (bar 23) most of the music falls into 3 or 4 bar sections. These sections should be used as your basis for revision.