wider listening

Question 1

movement 1

Answer 1

Wachet Auf- Bach
-melody: cantus firmus, mostly stepwise
-texture: fugal entries

Ich Elender Mensch- Bach
-melody: cantata, mostly stepwise
-texture: canonic entries
-harmony: chromatic movement, suspended chords

Jesu der du Meine Seele- Bach
-melody: cantus firmus, step wise, scalic, melismatic
-sonority: instruments double voices

King of Heaven Welcome- Bach
-melody: cantus firmus
-texture: expanding, fugal entries
-tonality: moving through related keys

Messiah- Handel
-melody: melismatic
-texture/tonality: pedal notes
-harmony: secondary dominants

Question 2

movement 2

Answer 2

Wachet Auf- Bach
-melody: scalic (strings)
-rhythm: moto perpetuo semiquavers

Jesu der du Meine Seele- Bach
-structure: ritornello
-sonority: obligato cello
-rhythm: moto perpetuo

Question 3

movement 8

Answer 3

Jesu der du Meine Seele- Bach
-sonority: instruments double voices

If Ye Love Me- Tallis
-melody: syllabic