Peripetie
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- Schoenberg: Peripetie from 'Five Orchestral Pieces' Opus 16 (1909)
- Before Espressionism: The late romantic period
- Towards the end of the 19th century. Music was...
- Longer
- Grander
- Vaster
- To keep structure interesting...
- Keys
- Harmonies
- Themes
- Textures
- Wagner
- Brahms
- Began to use a lot of chromatic notes
- Pieces began to lose the character of the main key
- Atonal=The music doesn't have a particular key
- Old structures were abandoned because they relied on contrasting keys.
- They were even abandoning old structures. Or using them in new ways
- Towards the end of the 19th century. Music was...
- Impressionism
- Music/art that describes a feeling or an experience
- Ravel
- Debussy
- Wrote pieces using the whole tone scale
- Sounds hazy and dreamy
- Wrote pieces using the whole tone scale
- Composers wrote music using recognisable chords and harmonies. To 'paint' a musical picture
- They cause chords for colour. Rather than following the rules other composers had made
- Klangfarbenmelodie - literally means tone, colour melody
- Expressionism
- Strongest in Germany at the end of WW1.
- There was a strong feeling of disillusionment and discontent regarding living conditions and restrictions
- It was used to express strong emotion
- Can make people feel uncomfortable or harder to digest
- Key features of Expressionism
- Atonal
- Each piece expresses an intense emotion
- Full pitch range of instruments to explore tone colours of the different registers
- Timbre is as important as melody
- Extreme dynamics
- Pieces tend to be short
- Schoenberg
- He wrote in a romantic style
- He was Jewish and left Germany in 1933
- He wrote atonal music after a traumatic experience
- He expressed his intense emotions through his music
- Five Orchestral Pieces
- Schoenberg uses pitches for effect rather than relationships
- The music expressed more than words could
- Titles were not added to the piece until 13 years after it had been composed
- Hexachord
- Groups of 6 notes played together
- Used to form short melodic ideas. Played one after the other
- Schoenberg and Bach created hexachords using their names.
- Schoenberg used a certain way of creating his hexachords. STS(T+S)S
- How hexachords are used
- Vericalisation
- Chords. Different spacings can be experimented with
- Chord notes could be spread across different instruments
- Used on the melodic line
- Melodic line can also be spread across different instruments
- The compliment
- There are 12 semitones in an octave
- 6 of them are used to create a hexachord.
- The other 6 can be used to create the compliment
- Principal and secondary voice
- Used to show who has the most important line and the 2nd most important line
- For example: Principal voice Bar 10 Clarinets 1+2
- Use of the Orchestra
- Peripetie was written for a large orchestra. To produce...
- Texture
- Dynamics
- Timbre
- Quadruple woodwind
- 3 flutes and piccolo
- 3 bassoons and contrabassoon
- 3 oboes and cor anglais
- Large brass section, with and without mutes
- A large percussion section
- Cymbals
- Timpani
- Xylophone
- And of course strings
- Peripetie was written for a large orchestra. To produce...
- Important features
- Parts are very challenging to play
- Lots of wide leaps
- No conventional structure.
- Contrasting textures and tempo
- Melodic fragments
- Atonal
- Hexachords and compliment
- The melody is passed around different instruments
- Made of 5 sections
- Peripetie is greek for sudden changes
- Before Espressionism: The late romantic period
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