AS Music Developing Musical Understanding

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AS MusicDeveloping Musical Understanding

• Schubert
• Der Doppelgänger
• Tonality harmony

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This session
What we will be covering
Tonality
Harmonic devises
pedal
Tierce de Picardie
suspension
Modulation
appoggiatura
Augmented chords
false relation
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Tonality

• B minor
• Bare fifths have what effect on the music?

The music is robbed briefly of its tonality
Adds a ghostly, soulless feel to the music
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Pedal point

• What is a pedal point?
• What is its dramatic impact on the work?
• Identify bars that do not contain an F

Bar 41
The first climax of the work
Bar 48
Bar 50
Bar 51
Bar 59
Bar 61
6 bars out of 63 in total
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Suspension

• What is a suspension?

Bar 27 - 28
Bar 29 - 30
Bar 36 - 37
How many suspensions can you find?
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Appoggiatura

• What is an appoggiatura?

Bar 15 - 16
Bar 34 - 35
Bar 49 - 50
Bar 54 - 55
How many appoggiatura can you find?
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False relation
What is a false relation?
a dissonance
a harmonic device
Where two chromatically contradictory versions of
a note appear simultaneously or in close proximity
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False relation
Without false relation
With false relation
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French 6th
What is a French 6th chord?
This is an augmented 6th chord with an augmented
4th
C A
C F
Augmented 6th
Augmented 4th
Dissonant
Unexpected
Dramatic
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Neapolitan chord
What is a Neapolitan chord?
An augmented chord where the 6th note is
sharpened.
It is based on the flattened supertonic
Identify another Neapolitan chord
bar 59
C A
Augmented 6th
Dissonant
Unexpected
Dramatic
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Neapolitan chord
Why is the chord important?
The 1st bar not to contain the F pedal
Climax of the work
Prepares for return to B minor
The chromatic step is unexpected
Highest note in voice
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There is one modulation
Ds act as leading note to D minor
B minor
C/F
F no 3rd
D
New key
D minor
A
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The modulation is achieved by chromatic motion
Rising chromaticism is inherently dramatic
Arriving at D
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Final moments
bar 54
F 7/9/11
bar 55
F dominant 7th
Plagal cadence
Tierce de Picardie
Bars 61 - 62
Why does Schubert chose to end in the tonic major?