Peripetie from Five Orchestral Pieces by Schoenberg

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  • Created by: JAMEZJB
  • Created on: 03-06-17 11:17

Melody

  • All twelve pitches used

  • Hexachord (six pitches)

  • Complement (six pitches)

  • Inversion

  • Hauptstimme/Principal voice

  • Nebenstimme/Secondary voice

  • No clear/recognisable melody

  • Atonal/no sense of key

  • Chromatic/dissonant

  • Extreme ranges (high and low)

  • Angular/disjunct

  • Octave displacement

  • Transposition

  • Fragmented/broken up

  • Passed around the orchestra/Klangfarbenmelodie

  • Melodic lines heard in clarinet and cello

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Harmony

  • Atonal/no sense of key

  • Chromatic/dissonant

  • Non-functional/chords used for colour

  • Hexachord (six pitches)

  • Verticalisation

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Rhythm

  • Complex

  • Rhythmic motifs

  • Irregular

  • Fragmented

  • Uses triplet/sextuplet figuration

  • Cross rhythms

  • Polyrhythms

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Texture

  • Constantly shifting/changing

  • One part/ monophonic

  • Full (orchestral) chords at climactic points/homophonic

  • (Some) polyphonic/contrapuntal sections too

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Dynamics

  • Extremes/ppp-fff/wide (range)

  • Sudden changes

  • Frequent changes/crescendos and diminuendos

  • Dies away to nothing at end/fff-pp at end

  • Accents/sfz

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