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Modulations For Grade 8 (6b) - With Style and Period: Poirot Theme (Christopher Gunning 1989)

Quiz for ABRSM aural tests

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Modulations For Grade 8 (6b) - With Style and Period: Poirot Theme (Christopher Gunning 1989)

Quiz for ABRSM aural tests

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Modulations for Grade 8 (6b) - with style and period

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adapted by Mornington Lockett 2020
Poirot Theme (Christopher Gunning 1989)
q = 100

œœœ œ œœœ œ œœœ œ


G Minor with added 9th
A
b4 œœœ Œ œœœ œœœ
&b 4 Œ œ Œ œ œœœ œ
Œ œ œœœ œ

Ϫ
>
Melody in left hand
œj
pp
>
f
œ œœœ œ œœœ œ œ
Big dynamics

œ ™™ œ œœ™
Wide keyboard range

? b 4 œœ œ œ œ™
™™™
Œ
>œ ™™
b4 œ œ œ œ™™™ œ
œ RÔ RÔ
° ° ° ° >

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Use of Pedal
straight quavers against dotted melody

œœœ œœœ Chromatic 7th chords


œ œ #œ
4
b œœœ œœœ œ nœœ ‰ œ
&b Œ œ Œ n œœ#œ # œ
œœœ œ œœœ œ n# œœœ # œ nœ J
> j > 3 >
œ™ œ œ ™ œ œ™ œ œ ™ œ #>œ
œ œ œ œ œœœ >
>œ n>œ n#œœœ
? bb ‰ Œ œ œ™™ nœ
œ ™™™ RÔ œ˙
œ œ™™™ R
RÔ
° ° ° ° ° °

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Modern TV music written as 'pastiche' of Late Romantic or Early 20thC European style
(compare Erik Satie, Darius Milhaud, Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition)

Dominant D major

#>œ ™ œnœ ™ œ œ ™ œ#œ ™


Major harmony
>œ œ œ œ >œ œ œ >œ
(Tonic just for reference)
œ n œ nœ
molto rall.
7
b ˙
&b Ó Ó
pp f

# ˙˙ ˙˙
A 'pedal point' builds expectation

? bb #nn˙˙ n#˙˙ nn ˙˙˙ ˙ ˙ Ó


œ
#œœ bnœœœ
‰̇ œ œJ ‰̇ œ œJ ‰ œ œJ œ œ ˙ ˙ œ œ Ó
° ° ° °

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