Schoenburg's Peripetie from 5 Orchestral Pieces

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  • Created on: 11-12-16 13:12
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  • Schoenberg's Peripetie from Five Orchestral Pieces
    • INSTRUMENTS
      • large orchestra
      • constantly changing instrumentation - contrasted timbre
      • extreme ranges of instruments
      • cymbal with cello bow
      • less well known - piccolo, cor Anglais, bass clarinet, contrabassoon + tam-tam
    • TONALITY
      • atonal
      • dissonance
    • MELODY
      • short motifs
      • all melodic material introduced in 1st section
      • disjunct + angular melodies
      • octave displacement
      • inverted motifs + altered using augmentation of rhythm
    • TEXTURE
      • largely contrapuntal with some homophonic + monophonic
      • imitation + inversion
    • HARMONY
      • chords built from hexachords
      • no harmonic devices
    • STRUCTURE
      • free rondo form with 5 sections (ABACA)
      • free - not traditional classical rondo (different sections contrasted)
    • RHYTHM, METRE & TEMPO
      • metre - 3/4, 2/4 + 4/4
      • Sehr rasch - very fast
      • complex + varied rhythms
      • different rhythms layered - complex contrapuntal texture
    • DYNAMICS
      • sudden changes
      • ppp + fff

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