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ON WENLOCK EDGE - Coggle Diagram
ON WENLOCK EDGE
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Texture
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Ostinato textures (e.g., piano sextuplets, unison trills in strings)
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Tonality and Harmony
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Modal harmony, false relations, word painting (e.g., "gale" - dissonance)
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Melody
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On Wenlock Edge: Folk-like melody, Mixolydian mode, pentatonic outline
Word-setting and Rhythm
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Mostly syllabic, occasional expressive melismas
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Rhythmic Features
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Frequent time signature changes & speed shifts (animando, etc.)
Background
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Song Cycle (1909): RVW set six poems; we study Songs 1, 3, and 5
Influences: English Folk Song Revival, Tudor Church Music (Byrd, Tallis Gibbons), French Impressionism, English Landscape (Wedlock Edge- Shropshire escarpment)
Musical Style: Blends folk, modal harmony, and impressionistic techniques