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A2 Unit 3 Responding to Music
Quick questions on Secular Vocal Music 1600 to the present: aria, recitative, the Lied and the art song - CCEA A-Level Music
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What are the art song across eras?Show answer
The art song (a serious setting of a poem for voice and accompaniment) appears across languages and eras: the French melodie, the English art song, and twentieth-century song cycles. Across the span from 1600 to today, secular vocal writing moves from Baroque recitative and da capo aria, through the Classical song and concert aria, to the Romantic Lied and art song, and on to modern styles that may use new harmony, free forms and varied accompaniment. The set works for this area illustrate this development.
What is q1?Show answer
Distinguish recitative from aria. [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
What is a Lied, and what is the role of the piano in it? [2 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
Name the three main formal types a song may use. [3 marks]
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