send in the clowns

Question 1

What is the key signature of the piece?

Answer 1

Db major

Question 2

What instrument has the solo at the beginning?

Answer 2

Clarinet

Question 3

What is the time signature of the piece?

Answer 3

12/8

Question 4

What tempo marking is used in the piece?

Answer 4

Lento

Question 5

What is the form of the composition?

Answer 5

ABA form

Question 6

What dynamic marking is used at the beginning?

Answer 6

Pianissimo

Question 7

What’s the accompaniment at start?

Answer 7

Rising arpeggio by harp with chordal strings

Question 8

What is the opening lyric mentioned?

Answer 8

Isn’t it rich. Are we a pair?

Question 9

What interval rises in the vocal melody at “isn’t it rich”

Answer 9

Major 2nd, perfect 4th

Question 10

What rhythmic feature is noted between fragments, isn’t it bliss and are we a pair

Answer 10

2 dotted crotchet rests

Question 11

What’s the accompaniment like

Answer 11

Block chords by strings and arpeggios by the harp

Question 12

What type of cadence follows each of the starting phrases of verse 1?

Answer 12

Perfect cadence

Question 13

what accompanies “me here at last on the ground, you in mid air”

Answer 13

strings double in 8ves and 3rds

Question 14

What type of chord is at the start of “me here at last on the ground”?

Answer 14

mediant minor 7 chord

Question 15

What is the time signature used in conjunction with the minor 7 chord?

Answer 15

9/8 time

Question 16

What melodic feature is primarily used throughout the piece?

Answer 16

Mostly conjunct

Question 17

What are the intervals at “you in mid air” ?

Answer 17

minor 3rd rise, then 8ve fall

Question 18

What happens at “mid”

Answer 18

Fermata and silence

Question 19

What is the musical reference in ‘Send in the clowns’?

Answer 19

Minor 3rd, perfect 5th

Question 20

What type of cadence is noted at the end of ‘Send in the clowns’?

Answer 20

Imperfect cadence

Question 21

verse 2, waht the cadence at “isn’t it bliss”?

Answer 21

Plagal

Question 22

What is the key signature mentioned in the verse ‘Just when I stopped opening doors’?

Answer 22

F minor

Question 23

What is the first leap at “just when I stopped”

Answer 23

Perfect 4th leap

Question 24

What type of note is used at the 3rd note at “just when I stopped, opening doors”

Answer 24

Lower auxiliary note/appoggiatura

Question 25

What type of melody is played by the flute and clarinet after "just when I stopped" and "opening doors?"

Answer 25

Dotted quaver counter melody. creating 2 against 3s

Question 26

What mode is the piece in at finally knowing the one I wanted was yours

Answer 26

Natural minor, Aeolian

Question 27

What is the melodic description in 'Finally knowing the one I wanted was yours'?

Answer 27

Constant quavers, perfect 5th major 3rd leap

Question 28

What texture is primarily used in the accompaniment at "finally knowing the one I wanted was yours" and "making my entrance with my usual flair"

Answer 28

Block chords

Question 29

What is the time signature noted again at "finally knowing the one I wanted was yours" and "making my entrance with my usual flair"

Answer 29

9/8

Question 30

What is the term used for the harmonic device at start and end of "finally knowing the one I wanted was yours"

Answer 30

False relation

Question 31

What type of bass motion is described in 'Making my entrance with my usual flair'?

Answer 31

Chromatic falling bass contrary motion

Question 32

What unresolved chord is mentioned at 'flair'?

Answer 32

Unresolved sus 4 and imperfect cadence

Question 33

What harmonic dissonance is used in the lyric 'Sure if my line'?

Answer 33

Tritone leaps and half-diminished 7th chord

Question 34

what is it like at 'No one is there'?

Answer 34

like send in the clowns. then returns to Db major

Question 35

verse 2, name cadences at where are clowns, send in the clowns

Answer 35

imperfect, then perfect