Gcse Music Analysis Essay

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he beginning melody starts with a solo horn, while the strings play sixteenth notes behind it, giving the harmony. Then the harp quickly plays before the strings takes over the melody. The melody is then shared with then shared with the lute for a short period before returning to strings only, followed by the trombones joining in as well on the melody. At about one minute and ity seconds, there is a brief moment of silence before the violins come back with the melody playing quietly. They then play the melody with the trumpets for a brief period, before the trumpets drop back out. With approximately twenty-ive seconds let in the song the brass secion takes over the melody for the remainder of the piece. Harmony in this piece is played …show more content…

This piece has a full texture, as for most of the ime there are more than one instrument playing harmony or melody. This song has an on the beat rhythm, and is played in quadruple meter. This song has a medium-fast tempo for a majority of the piece. This song has a light but brassy imbre due to the violins oten holding the melody, but while receiving string harmony from the brass secion at imes. This song has a clear color from the crisp notes played by all instruments. This song comes from the end of the ballet, The Firebird Suite. This song is played with loud dynamics for a majority of the ime, but has brief moments of sot dynamics that build up to loud dynamics.This song from The Firebird Suite is the revised ediion from 1945. Ballets aim to tell a story using music and dancers, not having any dialogue in the piece. Ballet music is used to relay the emoions of the story to the audience, while the dancers tell the story throughtheir dancing. This song creates emoion through their use of changing dynamics, choice of instruments, and tempo played at. The music alone is able to create a feeling inside the listener,even without seeing the dancers showing it is used to do just that. Without music ballets wouldsurely be a

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