Sequenza III

Sequenza III

Instrumentation
1. Solo soprano voice
Structure
1. No obvious structure
  1. Sense of a beginning and an end
2. Reaches a climax towards the middle
  1. Shown by gasping etc.
Texture
1. Monophonic
Tonality
1. Atonal
  1. No key
2. Highly chromatic
3. Pitch is highly approximate
  1. Not notated, just indicated when to get higher and llower
Melody
1. Fragments of notated melody are separated by alternate singing techniques
2. Little or no repetition
  1. No clear/lyrical melody
3. Frequent interjections with vocal techniques
  1. Includes: coughing, whispering, laughing, clicking, gasping, muttering etc.
4. Sustained pitches
  1. Give sense of melody
5. Many sudden flourishes and scales on different vowels and techniques
6. Angular
7. Lyrics are said, sung and half sung (Sprechstimme)
8. Both syllabic and melismatic
9. Some short words are stuttered and repeated many times very quickly
  1. Words are divided into phonetic sounds and groups of letters to make partial words
  2. Short and partial words are repeated quickly in a random order
10. Phonetic sounds are modified by a dental tremelo
  1. Flutter-tonguing
Harmony
1. No harmony
  1. Monophonic
Dynamics
1. No written dynamics
  1. Indicated by given moods
    1. E.g. tense, tender etc.

Resource summary

	Created by jdobb10 over 10 years ago