Bands at college football games all play this classical piece. I know I've heard it, but I can't remember what it is. For some reason, I'm thinking it might be by Walter Piston, but it's just a guess. You have to know something about music to be able to get it from this description:
The meter is either in 5 (5/4 or maybe 5/8) or it may alternate between one bar of 3/4 and one bar of 2/4.
The piece is very rhythmic, and is in a minor key. The tonic scale degree (la) is played in unison (octaves) in a regularly repeating rhythmic ostinato. Assuming that the meter alternates between 3/4 and 2/4, this rhythmic pattern is played as follows:
| tri-pa-let 2 3 | 1 and 2 | tri-pa-let 2 3 | 1 and 2 |
There is an underlying bass melody in which each note of the melody is sounded on beat one of each measure and held until beat one of the next measure. the melody is as follows (assume la is the tonic):
|(3/4) la |(2/4) mi | (3/4) ri |(2/4) te |(3/4) la |
What is it?
2007-12-31
12:30:14
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