Music: Schoenberg's Peripetie
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- Created on: 18-04-13 21:14
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- Schoenberg - Peripetie from Five Orchestral Pieces
- Instrumentation
- Large Orchestra (strings, woodwind, brass and percussion)
- Changes rapidly throughout creating contrasts in timbre
- Instruments played at extremes of their range (high/low)
- Cymbals are played with a mallet and a cello bow
- Melody
- Made up of short fragmented motifs
- Disjuct and sound angular, octave displacement is used which is unexpected
- Melodies are varied through iversion and rhythmic augmentation
- Rhythm, Metre and Tempo
- Metre changes between 3/4, 2/4 and 4/4
- Tempo is Sehr meaning very quick
- Rhythms are complex and varied and quickly changes, rhythmic patterns are sometimes layered
- Tonality and Harmony
- Atonal
- Chords and melodies are built from hexachords (6 notes)
- Texture and Dynamics
- Contrapuntal texture, with some monophonic and homophonic moments
- Imitation and inversion which create complex textures
- Sudden dynamic changes with extreme contrasts - ppp, fff
- Structure
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- Instrumentation
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