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Title: An Mhaighdean Mhara
Composer- Unknown
Title: The Little Sandman
Category- Irish traditional songs
Category- Art Songs
Background- This song was collected in the north of
Background- An art song is a poem set to music by a known
Ireland. It is a fairytale in Irish folklore that tells of a
composer with instrumental accompaniment. The accompaniment
broken-hearted man whose wife returns to the sea,
reflects the meaning of the words. This song comes from a
leaving him and his children.
collection of songs composed by Brahms for the children of Robert
Tempo: Go mall- Slowly
and Clara Schumann. The Little Sandman is based on the melody of
Key: G major
a German Folk song. Lied is the German word for song. A lied is an
Time signature: 3/4
art song.
Mood: brónach- sadly
Tempo: Andante (at a walking pace)
Type: Lament- a song of loss and regret.
Time signature: 4/4
Mood: Soothing and gentle
Form: ABCD, strophic form- the same music for each
Type: Lullaby
Form: AABCBC
verse
Performing medium: Solo soprano voice with piano accompaniment
Performing medium: solo singer sung in the sean-nós
Features:
style.
Melodic features:
Features:
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The melody moves mostly by step
Melodic features:
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There is a high point/climax in the B phrase
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The melody moves mostly by step
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Range of a 9th
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There is ornamentation used in bars 3,11 and 15
Rhythmic features:
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Range of a 10th
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Dotted crochet quaver rhythm
Rhythmic features:
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Crochet rests at the end of phrases
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The piece starts with an upbeat/anacrusis
A syncopated rhythm is heard throughout the
piece
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Composer- Johannes Brahms (1833-97)
Features of the accompaniment:
The piece starts with an upbeat/anacrusis
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Broken chords
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Repeating semiquavers
Key: G major
Category- Church music and carols-Salve Regina
Category- Folk Songs from other countries- Muss I Denn
Type- Gregorian chant, plainchant or plain
song- an unaccompanied single line of
melody sung in unison.The rhythm comes
from the words themselves.
Range- 6th
Key- Music is modal- this is based on the doh
mode.
The music is mainly syllabic- one note per
syllable but the last 3 phrases are melismaticmore than one note per syllable.
Texture- monophonic- single line of melody
Type- German Folk song- Love song
Origin- Germany
Composer- Unknown
Made famous by Elvis
Key- F major
Time- 4/4
Tempo- Moderate
Form-AABA’
Range- octave
Features- Simple rhythmsSequences- A pattern of notes repeated
higher or lower.
Use of anacrusis/upbeat
LISTENING- WORDS IN LATIN- NO
ACCOMPANIMENT
Category-Irish folk songs- Preab san ol
Type- Drinking song
Origin- Ireland
Composer- unknown
Key- G major
Time-3/4
Tempo- Go beo- lively
Form-AABA
Range- 9th
Features- Repeated note- The composer
repeats the same note at the start of the A
phrase.
-Repetition- The A phrase is
repeated 3times.
- Use of upbeat/ anacrusis.
LISTENING- WORDS- GERMAN?
LISTENING- IRISH WORDS
Category- Songs from operas, operettas, stage musicals.
Category- Art Songs- Caro Mio Ben- Come Happy
Category-Historical and Modern Ballads- Streets of
Cantatas, oratorios- O I got plenty o’ nuttin’
Spring
London
Type- song from the opera- Porgy and Bess
Type- Art song-the setting of a poem to music with
Composer- George Gershwin
instrumental accompaniment. Aria- a solo song
Type- Ballad- A ballad is a poem or a folk song that is
Origin- American
Composer- Guiseppe Giordani
usually about love, war, an adventure or an historical event.
Composed in 1935
Tempo- Larghetto- rather broadly- quite slow
This ballad is a modern protest ballad about homelessness
Key- G major
Time- C- four beats in the bar
and loneliness.
Tonality-major
Key- D major
Composer- Ralph Mc Tell
Time- 4/4
Form- ABA’
Origin- English
Tempo- Moderato- at a moderate pace
Range- 10th
Key- D major
Form- Ternary
Features- Sequences- A pattern of notes repeated higher or
Time- C- split common time- four beats in a bar split into 2
Range- octave
lower.
and 2
Features- Syncopation- Were the emphasis is placed on the
Ornamentation- Decoration of the melody using grace notes.
Tempo- Flowing- moderate
weak or half beat.
Sequences- A pattern of notes repeated higher or lower.
Dotted quaver+semiquaver rhythm
Form- ternary
Piano accompaniment.
Range- Octave
Range- b-d’ 10th
LISTENING-PIANO INTRO AND PIANO
Features- Triadic melody- The melody is based on the notes
Form – A B A’
ACCOMPANIMENT
of the triad.
LISTENING- MALE VOICE and AMERICAN ACCENT
Syncopation-Were the emphasis is placed on the weak or
half beat.
LISTENING- GUITAR ACCOMP- LIVELY
Category- Songs with simple descants, ostinati, simple 2-
Category- Popular songs, negro spirituals, jazz and blues
part songs, rounds and canons-
songs
By the waters of Babylon
Type- White spiritual- the hymns and gospel songs of the
This Little Light Of mine
white Americans of the 18th century,
Type- A round- is a simple canon for 2 or more voices in
Composer-Unknown
which one part closely imitates the other at the unison or the
Key-A major
octave- in the middle ages it was sung as an accompaniment
Time- 4/4
to a round dance. This is based on a psalm a religious song
Tempo- lively
with a verse and a refrain.
Form- ternary structure
Range- Octave
Composer- Unknown
Mood- Joyful
Key- A minor
Features- Flattened 3rd- The third note of the scale is
Tonality- Minor
flattened(blues note)
Time-C-four beats in a bar.
Syncopation-Were the emphasis is placed on the weak or
Form- ABC
half beat.
Range- 10th
LISTENING- LIVELY UPBEAT RHYTHM
Texture- Polyphonic-Two or more melodies
Features- Polyphonic texture
Minor key
Sequences- A pattern of notes repeated higher or lower.
LISTENING- MINOR KEY- WORDS- 2 VOICES