Dancer with Garland

I wrote another piece just to add some more schemata to the palette. I have to say that there are many more than the ones described by Gjerdingen. Not many resources to understand how some of them work, but I'm making it. Sometimes I had to take my own solution.

I didn't write all the grades in each pattern, but just a few words explaining them:

• The Quiescenza (quietness, rest) is a pattern used to establish the tonic, it was widely used (Mozart, for example) in the opening of a section, or at the end of the piece to re-establish the tonic. It works over a pedal on the tonic with a surprising clash between it and the sensible.
• The Ponte (puente, bridge) is an extension of the dominant chord which goes to the tonic. It can be as long as you want.
• The Monte (mountain) is a stepwise ascending (climbing) pattern that can also be extended, as I did, here.
• The Cudworth is one of the most used cadences, in which the melody runs from 8 to 1.
• A deceptive cadence ends with the 6 in the bass. An evaded cadence ends with the 3 in the bass.
• The Fonte (fountain, falling) is a stepwise descending pattern.
• The Corelli's Leapfrog was a surprise. Gjerdingen mentions it but it's not very well explained, taking into account it has many variants. It's a fantastic way to use prepared dissonances (9th and 7th) always resolving, of course, but allowing incredible clashes.
• The Pastorella is a recreation over a chord using thirds, and moving around the tonic.
• The Romanesca is universal (Pachelbel canon) that can be combined in many ways.

Hope you enjoy it, it's funny! I think if someone wants to understand and write in late baroque, galant, classical, even romantic style, learning this thins is a must.

Dear @Luis Hernández,

As always I really enjoy your piece! It's really didactic (like Bach's Inventions) to show not only what the schematas are, but how to use them beautifully and elegantly. These kind of pieces will be much better than a theory book for me as a composer!

I love the dissonance of the Corelli's leapfrog! Resolve of dissonance to create another dissonance! I find that in Mozart's Fugue for two pianos and is fascinated by it!

Luis, really grateful that you pay the effort to write all these pieces and share it here!

Henry

What's the title of the book or books from which you've taken all of this? I definitely want to take a look and I am more or less sure you mentioned it in prior posts.

The composition is as always, very clean and as @Henry Ng Tsz Kiusaid, didactic and very straight-forward to read and understand due to the visual guidelines and descriptions written here.

On 12/25/2022 at 11:56 AM, Luis Hernández said:

Hope you enjoy it, it's funny! I think if someone wants to understand and write in late baroque, galant, classical, even romantic style, learning this thins is a must.

I am not sure if I'd be that radical but since I have never intended to write anything constricting myself to any particular style I wouldn't know. What I see is how useful can this be, at the very least, in terms of adding another very practical approach when it comes to make a piece. 

Kind regards,
Daniel–Ømicrón.



 

24 minutes ago, Omicronrg9 said:

What's the title of the book or books from which you've taken all of this? I definitely want to take a look and I am more or less sure you mentioned it in prior posts.

It's Robert Gjerdingen's "Music in the galant style", there are numerous examples on the galant style schemata. I would like to look at that book too!

Henry

1 hour ago, Henry Ng Tsz Kiu said:

It's Robert Gjerdingen's "Music in the galant style"

Oh nice, just acquired it. Thank you man, I will definitely read it. 
 

4 hours ago, Omicronrg9 said:

What's the title of the book or books from which you've taken all of this? I definitely want to take a look and I am more or less sure you mentioned it in prior posts.

The composition is as always, very clean and as @Henry Ng Tsz Kiusaid, didactic and very straight-forward to read and understand due to the visual guidelines and descriptions written here.

I am not sure if I'd be that radical but since I have never intended to write anything constricting myself to any particular style I wouldn't know. What I see is how useful can this be, at the very least, in terms of adding another very practical approach when it comes to make a piece. 

Kind regards,
Daniel–Ømicrón.



 

 

4 hours ago, Henry Ng Tsz Kiu said:

It's Robert Gjerdingen's "Music in the galant style", there are numerous examples on the galant style schemata. I would like to look at that book too!

Henry

 

Yes that book is essential. It seems that this author put some order in this schemata, many names of them were given by him. The book is amazing and gives a beautiful historical perspective. Sometimes he wanders off the subject, but it is his book.... In some cases, the explanation is not entirely good because he doesn't look into the details, just mentions the schemata. 

There are many other schemata he barely talks about or doesn't explain at all (the bergamasca, heinz, lully, etc...). But I found other sources.

Also, you have to understand figured bass and that notation.

On the other hand, I agree with you. I don't want to restrain myself to any style, either. In fact, my natural language is eclectic and contemporary. But..., I believe that every style has many things to offer, and one thing I like to do, and a challenge, is taking this stuff and using it in my compositions. So, I write this little works with two goals: 1) learn, because one of the best ways to do it is writing music, 2) giving the basic information about this in my blog, because in Spanish there is almost nothing.

Luis.

Nice job!  I think my favorite schema in this is the Quiescenza that begins the piece and the Corelli's leapfrog.  The progressively ascending suspensions in the Corelli's leapfrog are really great up until measure 30 which repeats the previous measures C to Bb resolution.  I think this piece is very well matched with the instrument of the Harpsichord.  The character of the music is a perfect match with it.  Thanks for sharing!