SING WE AT PLEASURE

BACKGROUND

• By Thomas Weelkes in 1598
• The piece employs the style of late renaissance music
• It incorporates features of both madrigals and ballets
• Madrigal= secular vocal piece
• Ballet= light & dancy prancy

FORM & TEXTURE

• Binary form: A bars 1-22 B bars 23-85
• Use of a refrain (the fa-la-la bit)
• Homophonic texture= SF of late renaissance music
• Complex counterpoint= SF of the ballet form
• Use of imitation= SF of magical music

HARMONY & TONALITY

• Simple harmony= SF of the Late Renaissance style
• Mainly built on root and first inversion chords
• G major and mixolydian mode
• Modulation to related keys: C major and D major
• SF of ballet music

RHYTHM & METRE

• simple triple time= SF of ballet music
• Lively dancing feel
• Sprung rhythms= SF of ballet music
• Use of Syncopation and hemiola
• Words setting is syllabic

DONE!