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Seachanges - Raymond Deane - Coggle Diagram
Seachanges - Raymond Deane
Features of 20th Century Music (Contemporary)
Abandoning tonality (major or minor keys, music became atonal)
Using many new and different instrumental techniques and using new instruments (creating new sounds)
Making up new forms
Using new composing techniques (inversion, retrograde, etc)
Coming up with new ways of organising music e.g. notes cells, twelve tone rows.
Instumentation
Piccolo
Quintet - A piece of music written for five instruments.
flute in G
Piano
Violin
Cello
Percussion (maracas, cymbals, crotales, marimba, tambourine, gong, bass drum, guiro, rain stick)
Tonality
The overall tonality of Seachanges is
ATONAL
, which means it has no key centre.
Some sections have a central or anchor note influenced by the four open strings on the cello C G D A.
The use of E flat in section 5 is a surprise departure in the tonality.
Musical Ideas
The three-note cell G A C and its inversion
The rhythms associated with the danse macabre
A quotation from the dies irae
Unusual performing techniques
Great prominence is given to percussion instruments
At various points in the piece all players, play the maracas. With all playing together at the end
The string players are required to make a variety of percussive sounds
Left-hand pizzicato is played on the cello
Snap pizzicato is used
The strings are played with the wood of the bow (col legno)
Strings are asked to play sul ponticello (above the bridge) and sul tasto (bowing over the fingerboard)
The cello is strummed like a guitar