Handel

Question 0

When did handel die?

Answer 0

1759

Question 1

Where and when was handel born?

Answer 1

Halle, saxony 1685

Question 2

When was water music composed?

Answer 2

1717

Question 3

Who was water music composed for?

Answer 3

For King George 1 at a royal procession

Question 4

What was the purpose of water music?

Answer 4

To be regal and opulent, reflecting the majesty and position of the king and it had to please King George personally

Question 5

Who made up the upper group of the orchestra?

Answer 5

1st and 2nd violins, violas, oboes and trumpets

Question 6

Who made up the lower group of the orchestra?

Answer 6

Horns, cellos, double basses and bassoon (s)

Question 7

What do the trumpets do to start the first movement?

Answer 7

Stride up the tonic chord followed by a flourish of semi-quavers on the dominant

Question 8

What do the strings and oboes do in b1-5 of the 1st movement?

Answer 8

Move in unison down a d major scale

Question 9

Who copys the scale played by the strings and oboes from b1-5 in b5-9?

Answer 9

The lower group, accompanied by bassoons and cello

Question 10

Who is there antiphonal exchange between in b5-9?

Answer 10

Trumpets and horns

Question 11

What happens at b37?

Answer 11

2 groups combine in a grand tutti

Question 12

What ends the first movement?

Answer 12

Repeated perfect cadences

Question 13

What links to the 2nd movement?

Answer 13

Oboe cadenza

Question 14

What does the 1st movement end on?

Answer 14

A phyrigian cadence in b minor

Question 15

What is an alla hornpipe?

Answer 15

Lively english countrydance, often heavily syncopated

Question 16

What time signature is alla hornpipe in?

Answer 16

3/2

Question 17

What is the structure of alla hornpipe?

Answer 17

Ternary form

Question 18

What is the key in the a section of alla hornpipe?

Answer 18

D - A - D

Question 19

What is the key in the b section of alla hornpipe?

Answer 19

Bm - Fsharp - Bm

Question 20

What is the instrumentation on the A section of alla hornpipe?

Answer 20

Melody - trumpets, horns, violin 1/2, oboes
Harmonies - viola, violin 3
Bass line - cello, double bass and bassoon

Question 21

What is the instrumentation in the B section of alla hornpipe?

Answer 21

Melody- oboes 1&2, violin 2
Countermelodies - violin 1
Harmonies - viola and violin 3
Bass line - cello, double bass and bassoon

Question 22

Who doubles violin 1 and oboe 1 in alla hornpipe?

Answer 22

Violin 2 and oboe 2

Question 23

What happens in the last 9 bars of alla hornpipe?

Answer 23

No woodwind

Question 24

Who are silent in the opening of alla hornpipe?

Answer 24

Brass

Question 25

Who opens alla hornpipe?

Answer 25

Strings and woodwind

Question 26

Who joins at b11 of alla hornpipe?

Answer 26

Trumpets

Question 27

When are there perfect cadences in alla hornpipe?

Answer 27

B10-11 in d major B26-27 in the dominant, a major B38-39 in d major ALL HAVE A HEMIOLA

Question 28

What key is the b section in?

Answer 28

B minor (relative minor) with modulation to the dominant (f sharp major) at b57

Question 29

What does violin 1 play in the b section of alla hornpipe?

Answer 29

An elaborate part which oboe 1 cannot always double

Question 30

what is added in the b section to thicken the harmony?

Answer 30

violin 3

Question 31

what instruments are silent throughout the b section?

Answer 31

trumpets and horns

Question 32

what happens from b66 onwards?

Answer 32

full scored until then, instruments gradually drop out from b66

Question 33

what happens at the end of the b section?

Answer 33

players return to the beginning (da capo) and repeat the 1st half of the piece and finishing at b39

Question 34

what is a minuet/menuet?

Answer 34

popular court dance in 3/4 time

Question 35

what is the structure or the minuet?

Answer 35

binary A (repeated) B (repeated) x2

Question 36

what is the key of minuet?

Answer 36

d major (diatonic)

Question 37

what was the texture of minuet?

Answer 37

homophonic

Question 38

what is the instrumentation of minuet?

Answer 38

melody: tpts 1, vln 1&2, oboe 1 & horn 1 harmony: in 3rds - violin 3, tpt 2, horn 2, oboe 2 harmonic filling: viola bass line: cello, double bass and bassoon

Question 39

what instrument sounds an octave lower than written in minuet?

Answer 39

horns

Question 40

what do the brass play in the higher and lower registers?

Answer 40

higher register - stepwise | lower register - arpegios

Question 41

what happens in b1 of minuet?

Answer 41

all the instruments repeat the tonic chord except the bass line

Question 42

what is the whole piece punctuated by in minuet?

Answer 42

the drum-like rhythm in b7,11,15 &23

Question 43

what does b17-18 and b19-20 invite a contrast of in minuet?

Answer 43

dynamics - f and p

Question 44

what does lentement mean?

Answer 44

french term for 'slowly'

Question 45

what is the lentement movement?

Answer 45

dance movement - dotted rhythm SLOW GIGUE CALLED A LOURE

Question 46

what is the structure of lentement?

Answer 46

ABA - ternary form

Question 47

what is the key/keys of lentement?

Answer 47

A -D major B - B minor > E minor A -D major

Question 48

what is the structure of bouree?

Answer 48

binary (played thrice)

Question 49

what is the key of bouree?

Answer 49

D major - no modulation

Question 50

who plays the bouree the 1st time its played?

Answer 50

just strings

Question 51

who plays the bouree the 2nd time it is played?

Answer 51

brass + bassoon

Question 52

who plays the bouree the 3rd and final time it is played?

Answer 52

tutti + timpani

Question 53

what are the key characteristics of a bouree?

Answer 53

in 2, fast, anacrusis upbeat

Question 54

what instruments don't play in the b section of lentement?

Answer 54

no brass - reduced texture of just oboes, strings and bassoon