Der Kranke mond
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- Created on: 01-06-16 14:47
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- Der Kranke Mond
- Context
- Expressionist Style
- Chromatic melody and harmony
- Dissonant harmony
- Atonality
- Unusual vocal technique
- Wide range
- Large melodic leaps
- Melodrama
- Sets 21 poems of original French text
- Dramatic work featuring exaggerated characters and emotions
- Expressionist Style
- Instruments
- Vocalist
- Spechqesang
- Accurate rhythm
- pitches open to interpretation
- standard technique is to sing pitch at beginning of note, but move quickly away
- large pitch range
- E - 10th above middle C (Bar 15)
- E below middle C (Bar 15)
- Conjunct in first phrases
- Large angular leaps - aug 9th (bar 13)
- Last 2 bars - music fragmented by rests (mordents)
- Dynamic contrasts bar 7 - subito pp after cresc.
- Spechqesang
- Flute
- Mainly low tessitura (especially last 3-4 bars)
- High notes bar 8 (top E#)
- Trill bar 5
- Vocalist
- Text setting
- Syllabic
- 2notes to a syllable (b6)
- Word painting
- Large leaps - Blut (blood) bar 24
- Sudden dynamic change - fiebernd (feverish) bar 6
- Syllabic
- Texture
- Occasional monophonic passages - flute (8-11)
- Mostly 2-part writing in free counterpoint (1-7)
- Thin texture - vocalist's words and low flute tessitura can be heard
- Structure
- 3 verses - begin and end with same lines
- through-composed
- 2 solo flute sections separate the verses (8-11 and 19-20)
- Harmony/ tonality
- Atonal
- all 12 notes of octave used in first 3 bars
- No proper chords possible - 2 note intervals
- many intervals dischordant
- Almost every possible interval is found
- First 6 bars contain all intervals from minor 2nd to octave
- Almost every possible interval is found
- Melody
- large angular intervals - vocal dim 8th at end
- repeated notes - Low C# flute (15-16)
- Repeated vocal phrase - augmentation at end
- Descending sequence flute (22-23)
- Rhythm
- 6/4 - Slow, dotted minim beat
- Syncopation - Dort (bar 3)
- Rests fragment rhythm - last bar
- triplets - flute (bar 14)
- Precise performance directive - tenuto and staccato markings - last bar
- Augmentation at end
- Context
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