MELODY

MELODIC ORGANIZATION AND DEVICES

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MOTIVE

PHRASE

Prokofiev: Lt. Kije's Wedding
Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 5
Chopin: Grande Valse Brillante Geza Anda, piano
Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance, March No.1

LITERAL REPETITION

Tchaikovsky: March from The Nutcracker Suite

PERIOD; ANTECEDENT AND CONSEQUENT PHRASES

Contrasting Period

Vivaldi: Winter: II from The Four Seasons
Chopin: Grande Valse Brillante Geza Anda, piano
Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 5 excerpt 1
Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 5 excerpt 2
Handel: Hornpipe from Water Music
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9

Parallel Period

DOUBLE PERIOD

PHRASE GROUP

Beethoven: Turkish March

INVERSION

SEQUENCE

Sibelius: Finlandia
Bach: Air from Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D
Mozart: Rondo Alla Turk, Excerpt 1 Walter Hautzig, piano
Mozart: Rondo Alla Turk, Excerpt 2 Walter Hautzig, piano
Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Vivaldi: Winter: II from The Four Seasons
Albinoni: Adagio
Debussy: Clair de Lune
Bach: Invention No. 1 Wanda Landovska, Harpsichord

DIMINUTION

Bach: Contrapunctus 6 from Art of the Fugue Subject also inverted

AUGMENTATION

Bach: Contrapunctus 7 from Art of the Fugue Subject also inverted
Bach: Fugue 8 in Eb minor from Well Tempered Clavier I, beginning, and Same, measures 77 - 82 Edwin Fischer, piano

PHRASE EXTENSION

Beethoven: Variations on an Arietta by Dittersdorf John Ogdon, piano
Thanks to Jeff Perry for introducing me to this excerpt --gdb
Stravinsky: Firebird
Beethoven: Sonata op. 13, "Pathetique", III Walter Klien, piano
Bach Family: "March" from Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach Valery Lloyd-Watts, piano
Mozart: Symphony No. 40: I

FRAGMENTATION

MELODIC MOVEMENT

Conjunct

Disjunct

Contrasting movement, same excerpt

Mozart: "Notte e giorno faticar" from Don Giovanni Ferruccio Furlanetto, bass, as Leporello

OSTINATO

Chopin: Marche Funebre Emanuel Ax, piano
Stravinsky: Rite of Spring, excerpt 1 and Same, excerpt 2
Ravel: Bolero
Satie: Gymnopedie

BASS LINES

Ground bass

Purcell: "When I Am Laid" from Dido and Aeneas Lorraine Hunt, soprano
Pachelbel: Canon in D

Continuo

Telemann: Trio Sonata TWV 42:d9, III Adagio Performed by The Publick Musick
Telemann: Trio Sonata TWV 42:F12, I Affetuoso Performed by The Publick Musick
Handel: "And the angel said unto them" (recitative) from Messiah Judith Nelson, soprano

Walking bass

DeBenedetti: Rock Solid Blues