Many examples of
streams of parallel chords
and close-harmony
textures
35-41
Gamelan effects
Bare open triads
63-64
Open chords
based on quartal
harmony
Parallel chords with pronounced
parallel 5ths recreate the sound of
medieval organum
Tonality
Essentially in C# minor
Key heavily masked by extensive
use of modality & quartal harmony
There are very few perfect cadences to define
the key, and many modal cadences are often
'imperfect' in effect. Chords slide from one to the
next in a way that avoids establishing keys. There
is often a tertiary relationship that is created when
music is repeated a 3rd higher or lower.
Harmony
Harmony is extensively modal
Bars 1-8 and 16-22 has no accidental
Use of quartal harmony
Chords based upon 4ths
Passage starting at bar
23 and coda from bar 66
Chords are often
created from
added-note harmony
Triads with added 6ths,
minor/major 7ths as well as
dominant 7ths chords created
from an added 9th, 11th and
13th
Streams of parallel
chords are based
upon a whole tone
scale
11-12
Few formal perfect cadences
Chromatic passing notes
24, 27 etc.
Melody
Simple melodies
Generally in
two-bar
phrases
Much
stepwise
motion
Rhythm & Metre
The sarabande
has a
characteristic
rhythm,
emphasizing the
second beat of the
bar with a long
note
The more traditional
sarabande dance
rhythm can be seen in
bars 50-54
Many rhythms are two-bar units
Cross-phrasing
Metrical emphasis is moved to a weak beat
38-40
Hemiola
67
Broadening of music
in preparation for
final cadence