Badinerie (Eduqas GCSE Music Revision Song) Lyrics

This is Eduqas music, looking at the set works

It's a revision guide, the kind designed to send you berserk

In the exam, remember this song and start to smirk

I'm coming for your recall, in your subconscious I lurk

Mr Canny on the shake down to drop the itinerary

We need this in your head, in your long term memory

The knowledge has to remain, it can't be temporary

So let's dissect, fact check, and break down Badinerie

J.S Bach, the mans the best

The Baroque period is where we set the test

Think Harpsichords, lords, ladies, stately home dance halls

Where rich folk scoff and the rest are damn poor

The Harpsichord and Cello make the basso continuo

But there's more timbres than that, this isn't a duo

Add string section and flute, but not a concerto

The dynamics are terraced so you won't see crescendos

But in fact, throughout they're staying mainly forte

A quick, light movement's what Bachs trying to portray

The tempo is allegro, and that goes to say

That the speed is quick, just like the vocals I lay

The structure is binary, so there's 2 parts you see

But each part is repeated, so it's AABB

Section A's from bar naught to bar 16 it's naughty

So section B's from bar 16 to bar 40

Throughout, it's diatonic, notes from the key

With loads of perfect and imperfect cadences you see

Chords are often in inversions, they help with the drive

Occasional 3rd inversion with the 7th of chord 5

Don't forget the big one, it's bound to arrive

The neapolitan 6th, it's in bar 35

Suspension chords are also occasionally used

Like beat one of bar eight, bar ten and 32

Now look the flautist has gotta be good to stand on the stage

Because the flute part has got a two octave pitch range

Trills, sequences, appoggiaturas on the page

Because in Baroque, these ornaments were all the rage

Let's break it down further, there's no need to vote

A trill goes back and forth quickly between 2 notes

A sequence repeats a chunk of tune higher or lower

An appoggiatura's a grace note played slower

Let me tell you where to find these, let's help you out

Trills are all over the place without a doubt

Beat one of bar eight, ten, 30, 32

And bar 15 and 27, both on beat two

Sequences are seen between bar six and ten

And also 28 to bar 32 again

Beat one of bars 33 and 40 sound purer

You need to know this is where to find appoggiaturas

The articulation in the flute part has some slurs indeed

But mainly due to technique and need to breathe

The strings are generally staccato because of the speed

But that's not marked on the score, it's the performers need

It's simple duple time, so it's a 2/4 flavour

The rhythms use nearly all normal and semi quavers

They're used in simple ostinatos to form the rhythm

Of the two musical motif's that we're given

If you learn this song, you'll have played a blinder

Section A starts in B and ends F sharp minor

Section B's the reverse, it starts in F sharp

But by the end of the section it's back to B minor

I hope you don't mind this, forgive me the lecture

It's a melody and accompaniment, homophonic texture

The Flute and the Cello give the main stuff favourably

Though the 1st Violins participate occasionally

The 2nd Violin and Viola provide harmony

But their parts are less busy, they'd just be sat calmly

I hope that this helps you, ask any questions please

Just go out there and smash your GCSEs