Music 1102A/B Study Guide - Pentatonic Scale, Polonaise, Black Sheep
8 Feb 2013
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Happy birthday: meter: triple, accent falls on main beat most of the time. Royalists that wanted to give their support for the king. Each letter became a word: v e r d i. Means: long live the king vittorio emanuele of italy. Viola bigger than a violin (has more wood: viola has 4 strings that tune: c g d a, violin has 4 strings with a 5th higher: g d a e. Tema con variationi theme with variation. Tune of song heard in class: twinkle twinkle little star, bah bah black sheep, mozart"s arrangement: french folk song, meter: 4-4 time; duple, disjunct versus conjunct. Word borrowed from italian (la scala the ladder) Ladder has steps on it; when you have scales you go by individual rungs of the ladder: many variations in the melody when the tempo picks up. Each one has a lot more notes. One of the ways of varying a melody is to make more notes.
