Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 — 'Morning Mood'

E. GriegOp. 46 No. 1

Key

E

Time

6/8

Tempo

♩=60

AO focus

AO3

Form

Pastoral — flutes and oboes pass the melody back and forth over a sustained string drone. ABA' structure within the first 16 bars.

Teaching points

• Pentatonic melody (E F# G# B C#) — Norwegian folk colour, transferable to East-African pentatonic discussion
• 6/8 felt as compound duple — two beats of three eighths each
• Crescendo from p to ff over 24 bars — a single long arc the conductor shapes