Siciliano
The Siciliano or the Siciliana is a phrase used in Baroque music for vocal pieces ( arias ), dance pieces or sets of suites .
Characteristic features
Typical of the Siciliano are:
- Lovely, painfully sweet melodies.
- Musical character of a pastoral idyll (both in the erotic-amorous sense and in the sense of a simple closeness to nature).
- 6/8 or 12/8 time in a sluggish, swaying rhythm. Characteristic is the extended first eighth note in many 3/8 groups and the correspondingly shortened, only "tapped" 2nd note.
- Every now and then interspersed syncopation and the use of the Neapolitan sixth chord support the tender, melancholy emotion.
origin
A connection with Sicily , e.g. B. as originally a Sicilian dance, is often claimed since the appearance of the Sicilianos, but cannot be proven.
Use in later epochs
Occasionally one also meets the Siciliano in the neighboring rock period, for example with Joseph Haydn . His soprano aria Nun die Flur the fresh green in creation is a Siciliano. Even Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart put it now and again, for example in the soprano aria to sorrowful mood express, Oh, I feel it, it has disappeared from the Magic Flute in F sharp minor set slow the Piano Concerto in A major , K. 488 and in the final movement of the String Quartet D minor KV 421. In 1893 Gabriel Fauré composed a Sicilienne in the style of impressionist music as a set of incidental music for the piece Pelléas et Mélisande after Maurice Maeterlinck .
Sheet music sample
Audio samples
Two live recordings:
- 3rd movement from the sonata BWV 1035 for flute and basso continuo by Johann Sebastian Bach
- Largo e spiccato from Concerto No. 11 in D minor from L'Estro Armonico by Antonio Vivaldi
Organ arrangement by Johann Sebastian Bach
literature
- Frauke Schmitz-Gropengießer: Siciliana, Siciliano. In the concise dictionary of musical terminology , Freiburg i. Br. 2000.
Web links
- Wiktionary: siciliano