Musical Features:
Five Parts {Canto, Quinto, Alto, Tenor Bass}
Often voices share the same rhythm (homorhythmic or chordal)
Sometimes they have different rhythms at the same time. E.G Ma se cor mio bar 39.
Like much music written in the 1600s Chords I and V are important and notes G and D are emphasised.
Dorian Mode transposed to G with a Bb.
Harmony consists of root position triads and first inversion triads.
Dissonant chords are frequent
Mostly conjuct (step wise movement)
Many repeated notes which makes the text clearer.
Ohime usually is sung with a descending 3rd.
Larger leaps are used but not very often.
Some passages are slow with minim rhythms to portray sorrowful words.
Some passages are more lively with quaver rhythms.
4/4 common time.
Structural Features:
Poem has many stanzas but Monteverdi does not repeat the melody for each stanza not for note making it 'through composed'.
Section 1 ~Ohime - morire Bars 1-19 - parts build up: 3 part with antiphony; then 4 part; then 5 part.
Section 2 ~s'io moro - Bars 20-38 - Two equal sub sections the second being a transposition (down a 5th) of the first 3 part texture.
Section 3 ~ Ma se cor mio - mille dolce ohime - 39-67 - mostly 5 part but with 3 part passages at havrete mill'e.
Sections 1 and 2 are slower because of sorrowful words.
Section 3 quicken in response to 'vita' meaning life.
Contextual Features:
Five Parts {Canto, Quinto, Alto, Tenor Bass}
Often voices share the same rhythm (homorhythmic or chordal)
Sometimes they have different rhythms at the same time. E.G Ma se cor mio bar 39.
Like much music written in the 1600s Chords I and V are important and notes G and D are emphasised.
Dorian Mode transposed to G with a Bb.
Harmony consists of root position triads and first inversion triads.
Dissonant chords are frequent
Mostly conjuct (step wise movement)
Many repeated notes which makes the text clearer.
Ohime usually is sung with a descending 3rd.
Larger leaps are used but not very often.
Some passages are slow with minim rhythms to portray sorrowful words.
Some passages are more lively with quaver rhythms.
4/4 common time.
Structural Features:
Poem has many stanzas but Monteverdi does not repeat the melody for each stanza not for note making it 'through composed'.
Section 1 ~Ohime - morire Bars 1-19 - parts build up: 3 part with antiphony; then 4 part; then 5 part.
Section 2 ~s'io moro - Bars 20-38 - Two equal sub sections the second being a transposition (down a 5th) of the first 3 part texture.
Section 3 ~ Ma se cor mio - mille dolce ohime - 39-67 - mostly 5 part but with 3 part passages at havrete mill'e.
Sections 1 and 2 are slower because of sorrowful words.
Section 3 quicken in response to 'vita' meaning life.
Contextual Features: