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

What role does repetition play in identifying
structure in music?
1 What is being presented as evidence for repetition? and
2 What do you see as structural elements?
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REPETITION IS AN OLD FRIEND
As you interact with the next three examples, have your
C (I7) C (I7) C (I7) C (I7) F7 (IV7) F7 (IV7)
portfolio open to note down your ideas and discuss them
C (I7) C (I7) G7 (V7) F7 (IV7) C (I7) G7 (V7)
with a partner:
Figure 12.6 Blues chord structure (12 bars); notice how
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I7 and V7 begin or end each phrase
the
However, the reliance on a repetitive chord pattern is
From the work songs of America c. 1860, to ragtime piano in
not new. There are similar song structures in the early
1900, the development of swing in the 1920s and bebop in
Baroque era with which many composers experimented.
the 1940s, the chords I-IV-V have led to a standard pattern
In Chapter 3, we saw that composer and master of the
These 12 measures
12-bar blues .
of performance called the
violin Arcangelo Corelli (1653–1713) used a 16-bar form in
have been used by artists to build songs on an essential
his ‘Violin Sonata Op. 5’ called ‘La Folia’. It consisted of a
structure of cyclical repetition. Artists such as Robert Johnson,
minor theme that is repeated and developed as a structure
Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin
for showing off technical performance skills. Listen to
and B.B. King have all played and interpreted this pattern
Corelli’s ‘Violin Sonata in D Minor, Op. 5 No. 12 La Follia
in their own way. You can hear B.B. King’s ‘Why I Sing the
Variations’ on the playlist as you follow Figure 12.7.
Blues’ on the playlist as you follow along with Figure 12.6.
Figure 12.7 ‘Follia’ chord structure (16 bars) – still outlines a V-i pattern in each phrase
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