Music for a While by Henry Purcell

Purcell only wrote out bassline

Harpsichord melody is made up by player before recording/performing

Ternary form

Intro (1-3)

A (4-15)

B (15-28)

A1 (29-38)

Ground bass

Baroque

Minor key - solemn

Straight forward rhythm

Slow tempo

Chromatic

Finishes with perfect cadence

Ornaments

Arpeggiation

Can be written with all notes written out or as a symbol

Appoggiatura

Takes the value from main note after it

Usually dissonant

Slide

Trill

Upper mordent

Lower mordent

Used lots on harpsichord

Keeps a more sustained sound

Not usually written out in score

Tierce de Picardie

Used in minor key only

When section is ended with a tonic major chord

Lute in background

No part written out

No tempo marking

Slow tempo as it's hard to perform

Solemn feel

Realisation is written out

Basso continuo

Chords and bassline

Bass viol and harpsichord

Doubling

A minor

Main tonality

Repeated bassline

3 bar pattern, 4 quaver ostinato

Phrases are different lengths

Don't fit rigidly to bassline

Hides repetitive bassline

Runs up or down to note - doesn't change direction

Melisma

More than one note to a syllable

Modulation

E minor

Word painting

Suspensions

Turn

Bar 15

Note is held from one chord to next which it doesn't belong in

Dissonant

Common in late Baroque music

Baroque pitch

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