Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor Spider Diagram
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- Created on: 09-05-14 19:51
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- Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor
- Romantic Style
- Piano quintet - typical
- Technically demanding - virtuosic
- Wide tessituras
- Scherzo and trio form - typical
- Functional harmony and chromatic chords
- Wide variety of textures
- Mostly functional tonality
- Modulations to both related and distant keys
- Texture
- Start
- Dominant cello pedal
- Violin I and viola in octaves, piano in octaves
- Free imitation in piano - polyphonic texture
- Bars 13 - 18 - heterophony - violin I and viola
- 3rd theme - homophonic theme
- Central section of scherzo is FUGAL
- Starts with viola
- Counter-subjects in LH of piano
- Trio
- Melody-dominated homophony
- Introduces pedals
- Start
- Structure
- Scherzo and Trio structure
- Overall ternary form (ABA) - Scherzo, Trio, Scherzo
- 3 Themes
- Trio also in ternary (ABA) form
- Tonality
- C minor tonality (general)
- Modulates constantly
- Both closely related and distant key modulations
- Tonic major used frequently (C maj) e.g. 3rd theme
- Cadences and pedals establish tonality
- Distant keys: Eb minor (in fugato) and B maj (in trio)
- Harmony
- Functional harmony
- Chromatic harmony
- German augmented 6th chord (bar 5-6)
- Diminished 7th chords
- Very few perfect cadences -propells music forward using frequent imperfect cadences
- Prefers to use plagal cadences (IV-I) instead
- Circle of 5ths (starting bar 213 - in trio)
- Tierce de Picardie at end
- Melody
- Three themes
- SECOND theme - 'knocking' y motif and then 'turn x'
- THIRD theme - 'turn x' from 2nd theme augmented -
- FIRST theme - broken chord style - rising sequence
- Fragmenting melody lines (making shorter)
- Sequences and repetition used
- Three themes
- Rhythm and Metre
- All in duple time
- Mainly in compound duple time but 2nd theme in simple duple time
- Frequent syncopation (e.g. start - violin I and viola)
- Augments phrases in 3rd theme
- First counter-subject in piano at bar 67 has staccato quaver pattern
- All in duple time
- Romantic Style
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