Okay, we are going to stop it right there.
There we go, we are going to pause it right there, and go back and
ask us, yes, some questions again about this piece by Mozart.
So let's go to our first slide here and
just removed what's the texture, monophonic, homophonic, or polyphonic.
Well, let's see what we had in this piece.
Yep, monophonic and, homophonic, very little polyphonic here.
Where's the melody?
Well, again, it's always on the top, more so on the top,
it was virtually all on the top, always in the first violin.
What's the bass doing?
Well, I didn't hear much bass there, I just heard melody.
Melody is much more important here in the classical era.
Then, the bass is, what's the pulse of the bass?
Well, the pulse of the bass, difficult really to find.
Difficult to identify because the pulse is in the melody.
What's the mood of the music?
Well, it starts out as you heard-
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All that syncopation is very agitated, veryanxious, but
in the course of just those few seconds, it changes when the oboe comes to the.
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The relaxed oboe lines has become very, very lyrical by that point.
So what do we conclude from this, by way of classical music?
How might we recognize a piece by Hayden or Mozart?