Assignment 4Analysis
Assignment: Putting Things Together
The principles of Unity and
Variety apply to all music, regardless of composition style or historical
period.
Now that you are familiar with
the concepts in the first section of the course (Basic Musical Concepts), and
you have seen how they work on different pieces of music, try your hand, mouse,
and ears, at finding how they operate in a piece you haven’t heard yet in this
course (although you may have elsewhere).
To do this, I will ask you to look at Manha De
Carnival (Assignment #4 Audio) by Sigman and Bonfa, arguably one of
the most popular Brazilian pieces in the repertoire.
Your analysis should include:
·
The number of different musical ideas in the piece (can we say, for
example, that there are two ideas A, and B? Or is there only one?)
·
The timings (start and stop times) of the different sections of the piece.
(Hint: Listen forchanges in musical ideas and timbre, e.g. points where
different instruments come in or give way to others)
·
Howunityandvarietyare exemplified in those sections through the use of:
1. Dynamics
2. Timbre
3. Pitch
·
Whether, although there are sections thatfeature one instrument over
others, you think this is this is a piece forsoloperformer or for anensemble.
·
A list of the characteristics of the musical style closest to the one this
piece exemplifies. (Hint: Look at the last lecture in the first section of the
course)
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Whether you think this piece serves, or could serve a specific purpose.
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Whether or not it has any specific connotation/s for you.
