RVW

Question 1

OWE 2 melody + wider listening

Answer 1

Word painting arch “under heaving hill” WL: Mahler 7 lyrics mention devil - septuplets

Tritone in melody under uricon WL: Hundings first entry in die Walkure

Question 2

OWE 2 texture + wider listening

Answer 2

Melody + accompaniment texture for storytelling WL: Tragedies Debussy

Moto perpetuo ostinati accompaniment reflects gale WL: Moto pertetuo waves in RVW sea symphony mvt 3

Question 3

OWE 2 structure + wider listening

Answer 3

Strophic to match Housmans poem WL: Butterworth is my team ploughing

Introduction to establish wind figures in strings WL: Pensee De Printemps Massenet

Question 4

OWE 2 Harmony + wider listening

Answer 4

Chromatic falling harmony at the end of verse one reflects gale WL: Word painting of larks in Im Abendrot last four songs

Superimposed harmony Ab material under G chord WL: petrushka chord C and F#

Question 5

OWE 2 sonority + wider listening

Answer 5

Sul ponticello before verse 5 word painting WL: Parallel ascending chords and trills for birds at the start of lark ascending

Violin arpeggios represents gusts of wind WL: Don Quixote flutter tonguing for sheep

Question 6

OWE 2 rhythm + wider listening

Answer 6

Moto perpetuo accompaniment figure represents wind WL: RVW sea symphony mvt 3

Tremolo and short note lengths for gale WL: similar effect for waves in La Mer mvt 3

Question 7

OWE 2 tonality + wider listening

Answer 7

Bitonality in verse one Ab and G WL: Petrushka chord C and F#

Disguised tonality in the opening WL: Schubert Dichterliebe contains no clear cadences and floats between A major and F# minor

Question 8

IMTP 2 melody + wider listening

Answer 8

Dead mans melody uses a lower tessitura WL: Schubert Erlkonig

Melody Reaches peak of A after stopping at Ab previously when climax is reached WL: rest of the cycle (OWE bitonality)