ANGELO IZZO
BASIC CONDUCTING FINAL EXAM
“LINCOLNSHIRE POSY, HARKSTOW GRANGE”
PERCY GRAINGER: BIOGRAPHY
- PERCY GRAINGER, BORN IN MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA IN JULY 8TH 1882, WAS A GIFTED PIANIST AS A CHILD.
- AFTER STUDYING A YEAR IN FRANKFURT, HE BECAME KNOWN AS A PRODIGY.
- AFTER ATTENDING A SEMINAR ON FOLK MUSIC, GRAINGER BEGAN COLLECTING FOLK SONGS AND NOTATING THEM DOWN ON SHEET MUSIC.
- HE QUICKLY GAINED RECOGNITION FOR REVITALIZING FOLK MUSIC AND GOING AGAINST THE TRADITION OF THE GERMAN GREAT COMPOSERS.
SPECIFIC INFORMATION ON PIECE:
- LINCOLNSHIRE POSY IS A SIXTEEN-MINUTE PIECE CONSIDERED BY MANY TO BE GRAINGER’S MASTERPIECE.
- THE ENTIRE PIECE REVOLVES AROUND THE VARIOUS FOLKSONGS THAT GRAINGER HEARD DURING HIS TRIP TO LINCOLNSHIRE, …show more content…
“SLOWLY FLOWING” o MANY RECORDINGS SLOW DOWN AT THE END OF EACH PHRASE o SOME RECORDINGS DON’T CHANGE TEMPO DURING THE EXCERPT—THAT TOOL IS SAVED FOR LATER ON
- MUSICAL TERM COMPREHENSION o THE OVERALL VOLUME OF THE PIECE IS AROUND A MEZZO FORTE o THE CHANGES IN DYNAMIC ACCENTUATE THE PHRASING AS A KIND OF EPISODE
- FORMAL ANALYSIS o THE EXCERPT HAS FOUR PHRASES, EACH SLIGHTLY LOUDER THAN THE FIRST (EXCEPT THE LAST PHRASE) o THE FIRST TWO PHRASES ARE MELODICALLY SIMILAR o THE FIRST TWO PHRASES ALSO END ON A V CHORD o THE THIRD PHRASE STARTS IN THE RELATIVE MINOR, USING THE F MINOR STRUCTURE IN THE BEGINNING OF THE PHRASE AS A MINOR V o THE ENDING OF THE THIRD PHRASE MIRRORS THE ENDING OF THE FIRST PHRASE IN BOTH MELODY AND CADENCE o THE FINAL PHRASE IS A SERIES OF PASSING AND NEIGHBORING HARMONIES LEADING TO V o THE FINAL PHRASE MARKS THE FIRST TIME IN THE PIECE THAT EXTENSIONS ARE USED, RATHER THAN SIMPLY
BASIC CONDUCTING FINAL EXAM
“LINCOLNSHIRE POSY, HARKSTOW GRANGE”
PERCY GRAINGER: BIOGRAPHY
- PERCY GRAINGER, BORN IN MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA IN JULY 8TH 1882, WAS A GIFTED PIANIST AS A CHILD.
- AFTER STUDYING A YEAR IN FRANKFURT, HE BECAME KNOWN AS A PRODIGY.
- AFTER ATTENDING A SEMINAR ON FOLK MUSIC, GRAINGER BEGAN COLLECTING FOLK SONGS AND NOTATING THEM DOWN ON SHEET MUSIC.
- HE QUICKLY GAINED RECOGNITION FOR REVITALIZING FOLK MUSIC AND GOING AGAINST THE TRADITION OF THE GERMAN GREAT COMPOSERS.
SPECIFIC INFORMATION ON PIECE:
- LINCOLNSHIRE POSY IS A SIXTEEN-MINUTE PIECE CONSIDERED BY MANY TO BE GRAINGER’S MASTERPIECE.
- THE ENTIRE PIECE REVOLVES AROUND THE VARIOUS FOLKSONGS THAT GRAINGER HEARD DURING HIS TRIP TO LINCOLNSHIRE, …show more content…
“SLOWLY FLOWING” o MANY RECORDINGS SLOW DOWN AT THE END OF EACH PHRASE o SOME RECORDINGS DON’T CHANGE TEMPO DURING THE EXCERPT—THAT TOOL IS SAVED FOR LATER ON
- MUSICAL TERM COMPREHENSION o THE OVERALL VOLUME OF THE PIECE IS AROUND A MEZZO FORTE o THE CHANGES IN DYNAMIC ACCENTUATE THE PHRASING AS A KIND OF EPISODE
- FORMAL ANALYSIS o THE EXCERPT HAS FOUR PHRASES, EACH SLIGHTLY LOUDER THAN THE FIRST (EXCEPT THE LAST PHRASE) o THE FIRST TWO PHRASES ARE MELODICALLY SIMILAR o THE FIRST TWO PHRASES ALSO END ON A V CHORD o THE THIRD PHRASE STARTS IN THE RELATIVE MINOR, USING THE F MINOR STRUCTURE IN THE BEGINNING OF THE PHRASE AS A MINOR V o THE ENDING OF THE THIRD PHRASE MIRRORS THE ENDING OF THE FIRST PHRASE IN BOTH MELODY AND CADENCE o THE FINAL PHRASE IS A SERIES OF PASSING AND NEIGHBORING HARMONIES LEADING TO V o THE FINAL PHRASE MARKS THE FIRST TIME IN THE PIECE THAT EXTENSIONS ARE USED, RATHER THAN SIMPLY