Analysis of Choral Work Form

Title
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Composer/Arranger
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Voicing _______________________ Publisher ______________________ No.
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Musics Characteristics
Analysis of Music
FORM (single/multi movement, binary,
ternary,
Strophic, through-composed, aleatory,
unity-variety devices)
MELODY (type phrases, conjunct,
disjunct, range,
fragments, legato, marcato, staccato,
common intervals, sequences, diatonic,
chromatic, modal)
RHYTHM (tempo, meter, longest and
shortest note values, rests,
augmentation, diminution, rit.
accel., hemiola, fermata, changing
meter, polymeter)
HARMONY (major, minor, key
modulation, chromatics, suspension,
unison, chord movement, pedal point,
12-tone, atonal
TEXTURE (monophonic, polyphonic,
homophonic)
DYNAMICS (ppp-fff markings, cresc.,
dim., accent,
sfz, marcato, terraced, light and heavy
voice scoring
TEXT (English, foreign text, translation,
syllabic, melismatic, strophic, throughcomposed, repetition, text painting,
accents

Directors

ACCOMPANIMENT (or a cappella) piano,

organ,
orchestra, small instrument ensemble,
obligatto,
independence of instrumental
ensemble
VOCAL DEMANDS (vowel unification,
diction, register shifts, potential balance
issues)