Peripetie 0.0 / 5 ? MusicSchoenbergGCSEEdexcel Created by: Viv LeongCreated on: 21-04-14 10:27 General features of Expressionism atonal - all 12 semitones have equal importance generally expresses just one intense emotion uses full pitch range of instruments (instruments sound different at the extreme ends of their instruments) timbre as important as melody extremes of dynamics common generally quite short 1 of 8 Melody spiky/angular unpredictable bounces frequently from one instrument to another urgent - new aspects appeare on top of each other use of klangfarbenmelodie (timbre contributes to the melody, not just pitch and rhythm) instruments playing main melodic ideas indicated by hauptstimme - principal voice nebenstimme - secondary voiced 2 of 8 Harmony/tonality atonal no cadences clashing and dissonant harmonies no nice triads - very chromatic based on hexachords (six notes of the scale) and compliments (the six semitones not used in the first hexachord) 3 of 8 Rhythm/metre unpredictable no clear metre (begins 3/4, becomes 4/4, etc.) irregular very complex syncopated 4 of 8 Texture varies throughout some homophony and polyphony complex textures built up through the use of imitation and inversion 5 of 8 Tempo some variation begins sehr rasch - very fast becomes etwas ruhiger (somewhat calmer), heftig (passionate) and ruhiger (calm) 6 of 8 Dynamics lots and lots of contrasts (e.g. fff to p in the space of a quaver) wide range (from fff to pp) 7 of 8 Structure follows a sort of rondo (free rondo) A-B-A1-C-A2 not very recognisable as a rondo 8 of 8
Peripetie by Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951). Composed in 1909. Expressionist music. 4.0 / 5 based on 1 rating
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