Author Question: Musical Personality What will be an ideal response? ... (Read 35 times)

drink · **on:** Jul 25, 2018

Musical Personality

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Form

What will be an ideal response?

joanwhite · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 25, 2018

Answer to Question 1

The musical personality is motoric (strong relentless, rhythmic drive) and repetitive (to Western ears) due to the persistent recurrence of a few musical ideas.

Answer to Question 2

The form is repetitive, created by stringing together A phrases, varied by a pair of B phrases.
These main motives phrases are the melodies one identifies with particular sanjanunes.
The melodies of the selection come from playing the same or similar melodic phrases over and over again throughout the entire piece.
The form is a series of double-coupletsthe first 8-syllable line is stated and followed by a contrasting 8-syllable grouping; then, this entire couplet is repeated. The double-couplets are sometimes repeated exactly, or sometimes repeated with modificationssee Active Listening guide. In this example in addition to accompanying the solo male voice, the harpist and golpeador play (1) an instrumental introduction, (2) instrumental interludes between double-couplets, and (3) an instrumental ending.