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Post by Dulciana on Feb 4, 2007 14:22:10 GMT
Will be two posts - sorry - playing up again. Is there a word that means 'pentatonic-like'? It's for somebody to describe the interesting features of 'Canzone', a TG Grade 5 piece. I don't want him to commit himself to saying it's actually written using the pentatonic scale, because I don't think it is, but I want him to sound like he knows what he's talking about whilst acknowledging that it's not black and white.
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Post by Dulciana on Feb 4, 2007 14:24:23 GMT
Is anyone familiar with this particular piece? Why does it not have a key signature, while it's obviously in 6 flats? Why make the whole thing look so complicated by writing them all in as accidentals? If asked for the key signature, is it best to say 'centred around' in this case?
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Post by Dulciana on Feb 4, 2007 16:00:53 GMT
I've just found my little TG Teaching Notes book that I thought I'd lost - it says 'despite the lack of key signature, this is firmly in Eb minor' - so in answer to myself, I'd be wrong to say it was 'centred around'! It doesn't say anything about pentatonic-ness!
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Post by anacrusis on Feb 4, 2007 16:17:38 GMT
I remember doing a Trinity practice aural test which sounded vaguely Scots, and the answer for the extra super-duper candidate heading for a distinction was that the reason for the Scots sound was that it was pentatonic. Could your student say something along those lines, that the sound is like that of pieces based around a pentatonic scale?
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Post by Steve Hopwood on Feb 4, 2007 16:31:12 GMT
Or that it was written largely but not wholly around the pentatonic?
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Post by Dulciana on Feb 5, 2007 1:57:50 GMT
What actually are the real origins of the pentatonic scale anyway? I though it was sort of Japanese, but it is also reminiscent of Celtic music - and it never sounds like it's over when something is pentatonic-like. (There's gotta be a word!) But at the same time it CAN sort of sound like it's over no matter what note it ends on.
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Post by Steve Hopwood on Feb 5, 2007 7:21:54 GMT
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Post by petite joueuse on Feb 5, 2007 9:58:02 GMT
Did a bit of a hunt on "pentatonic"....nothing useful to help Dulci, I'm afraid, but how about this? Apparently as the pentatonic scale is characterised by a complete lack of semi-tones, it is "ANHEMITONIC"!! Well I never! You learn something new every day!! Spit that word out in an exam and the examiner will be eating out of your hand, methinks!
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Post by jod on Feb 5, 2007 10:04:06 GMT
You could say that although composed in Eb minor, there were qualities of the piece that were reminiscent of the pentatonic scale. The trouble is you will then need to illustrate that and make sure that your pupil know what a pentatonic scale is and exactly which bars to put under the examiners nose.
Still its worth a go.
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Post by Dulciana on Feb 5, 2007 22:41:23 GMT
Thanks, all for your replies. Steve - I'll look at your websites tomorrow, as I'm sitting here with no heat wearing my mother's sexy bodywarmer and still shivering.
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Post by Steve Hopwood on Feb 5, 2007 22:46:56 GMT
I'm sitting here with no heat wearing my mother's sexy bodywarmer and still shivering. Bad luck. Lots of sympathy. Tell your mum that she needs to cultivate some toy-boys for similar episodes in the future.
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Post by anacrusis on Feb 5, 2007 23:29:11 GMT
maybe you need a gin anhemitonic
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Post by petite joueuse on Feb 6, 2007 8:54:16 GMT
My thoughts precisely! And does Pentatonic imply 5 of tonic to 1 of gin??
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Post by Dulciana on Feb 6, 2007 21:21:05 GMT
Wrong way round! (Is the toy-boy for me or my mum? )
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