Verdant Braes of Screen (2)
Tonality - Modal (Best Answer) Sometimes this song is described as Major or with a flatted 7th. This is in fact a mode. However, in this song sometimes the 7th is flatted and sometimes it is not so it could also be described as change from modal to major!!!!!
Rhythmic Features - 1. Begins on an Anacrusis (up-beat). Each phrase starts on the 4th beat of a bar.
2. Mainly moving in crotchets and quavers but some triplets. A triplet has 3 notes in one beat. Do however keep in mind that there are loads of versions of this song. There is no guarentee that the version we listen to is the same as the one in the exam.
Melodic features - Mixture of step and leap. The A phrases begin with a rising 4th. Ornamentation. Range of an octave. Flatted 7th alternating with the natural 7th.
Strophic form is where each verse of the song is to the same tune. There are no choruses.
Rhythmic Features - 1. Begins on an Anacrusis (up-beat). Each phrase starts on the 4th beat of a bar.
2. Mainly moving in crotchets and quavers but some triplets. A triplet has 3 notes in one beat. Do however keep in mind that there are loads of versions of this song. There is no guarentee that the version we listen to is the same as the one in the exam.
Melodic features - Mixture of step and leap. The A phrases begin with a rising 4th. Ornamentation. Range of an octave. Flatted 7th alternating with the natural 7th.
Strophic form is where each verse of the song is to the same tune. There are no choruses.