1 янв 1591 г. - Keyboard Music: The Carman's Whistle

Описание:

- based on a popular 16th-century tune
- refers to men whose occupation involved looking after the horses and carts that moved goods and supplies between farms and markets and suggests that they may have whistled as they worked

Genre: keyboard music, also arranged for lute
Form: theme and variations
Composer: William Byrd
Composition date: before 1591
Meter: compound duple, 12/4
Mode: Ionian (C major)
Source: Fitzwilliam Virginal Book

Theme:
- theme introduced in a simple two-voice imitative texture
- followed by a richer texture with chordal accompaniment
- simple melodic line embellished with ornaments
- followed by 8 variations of texture and rhythm

Variation 2:
- features syncopation in the bass line and inner voice

Variation 7:
- more active rhythmic movement
- eighth-note figures in the left hand
- builds up to the climactic final variation

Variation 8:
- features the thickest texture
- creates a full sound on the harpsichord

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