Music - MYP 4 and 5 - Samuel Wright - Hodder 2020

Lebewohl und
ACTIVITY:
Napoleon
skills: Using and interpreting a
Communication
of discipline-specific terms and symbols
range
Play the opening farewell motif in blue, on
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2 As a series of experiments, add a different bass line
Finally, collect all of your themes and
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this activity you have practised skills that are
In
using Criterion C: Thinking creatively and
assessed
In 1809 when Napoleon attacked Vienna, the Archduke Rudolph of Austria had
to flee the siege that would inevitably engulf the city. Many of the citizens of
Vienna witnessed the horrors of war, none more so than the Battle of Wagram.
It was so close they could see the carnage from their rooftops. In a letter written
shortly after the battle, Beethoven wrote:
a destructive, disorderly life I see and hear around me, nothing but
“What
cannons, men, and human misery in every form.”
drums,
This became the background of change for his ‘Piano Sonata No. 26 in E Major
Op. 81a Das Lebewohl’. The very opening expresses so much sorrow in its
descending passage that the German
(‘fare-thee-well’) can be heard in
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opening three descending chords.
the
any instrument you can.
each time you play the top parts. Make sure you
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document the changes and emotions each bass line
communicates.
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3 Now add in a series of arpeggio patterns in the
left hand. You can record them in applications like
GarageBand or notate them for someone in your class
to perform.
perform them for each other. Do some parts
communicate more sadness and turmoil than others?
What effect did adding bass lines or arpeggios make
to the three descending intervals?
Figure 11.20 Lebewohl motif
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Rhythmically, this motif uses two short notes followed
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by a longer note, outlined in blue, above. Additionally,
the chords could be following a I (E )-V (B )-vi (Cm)
progression; however, this will be up to you to decide.
Criterion D: Responding.
Figure 11.21 Lebewohl motif with different bass lines
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