TRUANT GIOVANNI

DESCRIBE A PICTURE: Rhythm’n’blues

This picture is a drawing that represents a café with some people.

In the top left hand corner, there are some people dancing near a jukebox, they are
happy and smiling.
One of these persons is leaning on the jukebox smoking a cigarette and drinking
something.
In front of the jukebox a person is copying a dance step that is represented on a
poster on the wall.
On the wall there are some posters, one represents a dance step, another
represents a coca cola’s advertising and the last represent a BB King’s concert
advertising.
Near the posters there is a door with the inscription PRIVATE.
In the bottom left hand corner there are two people who are talking probably about
a news because one of this two persons have a newspaper and a pair of glasses.
In the center of the picture there is a chair with a jacket behind it there is a table
with some people talking and drinking a café. They are two mans and two women.
On the table there are some bottles of condiments
In the background there is a shop window with the inscriptions CAFÉ and AIR
CONDITIONED. Out of the window there is a palace and a tree.
Under the inscriptions there is a curtain and in front of it there are two girls talking
and smiling near a chair.
In the top right hand corner there is poster that represent a Dizzy Gillespie’s
advertising, in front of it there is a girl who is eating a sandwich.
In the right of the picture there is the café counter, on it there are a glass and a
napkin container.
Behind the counter there is a person smoking a cigarette, probably the owner of the
café, behind this person, on the wall there are a mirror and some shelves with some
bottles and glasses and a cash desk.
In the bottom right hand corner there is a girl sitting on a chair who is looking
people in front of her, probably she wants to dance and is looking for a partner.
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ANALYSIS: STUDY IN D by BERTINI

This composition is in ternary form (ABA1), the key is D minor on section A and
modulate to B minor in the B section. The section A1 returns in D but major.
The style of the piece is romantic.
The piece start with a piano for the entire A section, on B section instead start a
crescendo from the bar 10 to the bar 20 then a diminuento to return to pianio on
A1 section that start with piano and on the bar 28 does a crescendo to finish the
piece with forte.
The thematic connection is the rhythmic cell composed of two quavers and a minim
that are on the bar 1 and return on the B section than on the bar 3 there is a group
of 1/8 notes that return to bar 14 and 16 in B section and again for the entire
section A1.
The left hand on A section does legato quarter notes than in section B start staccato
quarter notes and in the section A1 returns legato but in eight notes.
The left hand solution makes the accompaniment like a crescendo, starting in
section A legato then adding staccato and more note on the end of section B and
doubling the notes on section A1.
The unusual features are the repetition of the notes and the fortissimo in section B.