Follow the Close Listening guide to CD 1:25 Oifin Pripetshik and ...

[KimWrice]

Follow the Close Listening guide to CD 1:25 Oifin Pripetshik and describe its metrical structure.
 
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Question 2

Explain the concepts of metered and nonmetered music in the WOM (pp.148-9) and the term ostinato. What do melodic phrases in music tend to connect with?
 
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[rnehls]

Answer to Question 1

• (A) Beats/pulses are apparent (metered) and (B) grouped into a triple meter, a meter with a number of beats divisible by 3 (1 2 3, 1 2 3, etc).

(C) with each phrase being 4 bars long.

Answer to Question 2

• (A) Metered music has a beat or pulse. 1


• (B) Non metered music has an irregular rhythm  without an even pulse or repeating pattern of beats.


• (C) An ostinato is a musical line that repeats throughout the piece.


• Phrases are the shortest, complete musical ideas or units in a musical composition, analogous to word phrases in an English sentence.

1 Meter is created in music by a constantly recurring emphasis on the same beat within a repeating group of beats, such as 1 2 1 2 1 2 in a duple meter or 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 in a triple meter. For example, a duple meter is commonly used in marches; and waltzes are in a triple meter.

[KimWrice]

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[rnehls]

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