Part 1. Describe the Musical Features?

• Answer A The music is from the Baroque era because of the mixture of single line textures and chordal passages. There is some contrast in articulation and dynamics and the piece has four main sections in an A-B-A-B structure. The sustaining pedal would not have been used in the Baroque era.
• Answer B The harmony is 20th century style. There is contrast in textures and dynamics. The sustaining pedal is used and the music sounds as if it could be from the soundtrack of a film about something frightening, or maybe it is the start of a longer piece. There are several different sections within the piece.
• Answer C The harmony is chromatic and dissonant, a clear indicator of the 20th century. There are four main sections, shown by contrasting textures, moving between higher pitched, single lines and thick, low chords in an A-B-A-B pattern. The mood is bleak and sinister, the pace quite slow, with some use of rubato and graded and contrasted dynamics.