Expressionism in Music
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- Expressionism- 1910s- 1920s
- Rhythm
- Irregular rhythms and meters
- Melody
- Adoption of serial technique/ dodecaphony
- Use of the twelve tone scale
- A mathematical approach/ complex patterns
- Symmetry
- Retrograde ideas
- Transposition
- Moving a collection of notes up or down, in pitch by a constant interval
- Palindromes
- Angular and dichordant melodies
- Use of small motifs and intervals
- Harmony
- Atonality
- Dissonant harmonies
- Instrumentation
- Extreme registers or instruments used
- Highl;y contrasted orchestral writing
- Subtle or rich
- Contratsing timbres
- Klangfarbenmelodie
- Splitting a melodic line between several instruments
- Klangfarbenmelodie
- Small combinations of instruments
- Experimentation with vocal techniques
- Sprechstimme
- A dramatic declaration between singing and speaking, in which the speaker uses lilt and rythm, but not presice pitch
- Parlando or recitative
- Sprechgesang
- Between sing and recitation. The voice sings the beginning of each note and then falls rapidly from the notated pitch
- Sprechstimme
- Structure
- Extended phrases
- Structural freedem often evident
- Dynamics
- Wide range of dynamics
- Texture
- Wide range of textures
- Reflection of extreme emotions
- Composers
- 2nd Viennese School
- Schoenberg
- Berg
- Webern
- 2nd Viennese School
- Rhythm
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