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Music For a while - Purcell (Instrumentation (The Bass Viol also plays the…
Music For a while - Purcell
Context
Baroque
Written for the play, Oedipus
Lament - sad song (minor key)
Instrumentation
The Bass Viol also plays the Basso Continuo
Soprano
Harpsichord plays Basso Continuo
Realising figured bass
Structure
Da capo Aria
Ornamented A section
5 bar intro
Tonality and Harmony
Modulates to C major (relative major) at
B
Section
back to A minor for the return of
A
section
A minor
Dissonance
word painting, e.g. 'pain'