Webern : Quartet op.22 Mindmap
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- Quartet op.22
- General Background
- Webern was banned by the Nazi's as it was degenerate
- Attended the second Viennese school
- atonality
- dissonance
- use of seriliasm
- angular melodies with wide leaps
- Harmony and Tonality
- Both atonal and serial
- Note order same but 48 versions of row
- Notes usually individual = no harmony
- First chord = major 2nd interval
- One clash eg/C# with D + Eb
- Performing Forces
- Webern wanted widest range of timbre
- Violin - Clarinet - Sax - Piano
- Violin uses mute at beginning
- Fast alternation between pizz and arco
- Players exploit a large pitch range
- Many directions (slurs etc.)
- Wide dynamic range
- Rhythm and Metre
- Mainly triple time (quite hard to hear)
- Time signatures change frequently
- Frequent rests (fragmented)
- Three recurring rhythmic groupings
- 1) semiquaver-quaver-semiquaver
- 2) 3 Semiquavers
- 3) 2 semiquavers
- Pause before recap
- Structure
- Could be seen as Ternary or sonata
- Intro: Mirror canons start in sax
- Exposition: Main Serial theme
- Development: PALINDROM
- Recap: Starts same note BUT KLANGFARBENMELODIE
- Melody
- Based on a tone row. 5 semi tones
- Wide angular intervals
- Tritone (10th + 11th note of series)
- Fragmented
- Pointilism
- Texture
- Extremely thin, rests prevent more than 3 parts
- Often almost monophonic
- Fundamentaly polyphonic
- Uses mirror canons
- General Background
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