Schoenberg- Peripetie
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- Created on: 25-04-13 12:01
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- Schoenberg- Peripetie
- Dynamics
- A- Sudden loud bursts ranges from fff to pp
- B- starts off very soft
- A1- Extreme dynamic range
- C- range from pp-fff. A few loud semi quaver passages.
- A2- crescendos very quickly from pp-fff, dissonant chords and immediately dies away to finish with pp chord.
- Melody
- A1- Return of a hexachord on the horns
- C- Bassoon tune, taken over by the cello and double bass
- A2- Motifs are piled up on top of each other and are played in counterpoint and canon
- Tonality & Harmony
- A- motifs are based on hexachords, dissonant harmony (7th)
- A1- Dissonant harmony
- A2- Dissonant chords
- Tempo & Rhythm
- A- sehr rash, contains mostly triplets, sextuplets and demisemiquavers
- B- Uses of different rhythms which overlap
- A1- Variation of A
- C- Alternates between ruhiger (calmer) and heftig (passionate)
- A2- Another variation of A speeds up with use of triplet motifs
- Instrumentation
- A- Full orchestra use of muted brass for timbre effects.
- Opens with motif played by flutes, clarinets and bassoons
- Then a chromatic scale by muted trumpets and trombone glissando instruments play as "families"
- B- persussion and clarinet (woodwind)
- C- solo instruments overlapping
- A2- clarinets and strings to full orchestra. Double bass play tremolo chord
- Texture
- A- Homophonic
- B- Thick texture
- C-Sparse texture
- Facts about set work
- Expressionism was borrowed from visual art and literature
- Dissonances
- Extreme contrasts
- Changing texture
- Distorted melodies
- Angular melodies
- Dynamics
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