Use of klangfarbenmelodie- 'tone colour melody'- used to break up the melody by passing it around different parts of the orchestra. This gives the tune more variations in Timbre
Has Fragmented Angular Melody lines
Uses short distinct motifs
Hexachords
Melodic Inversion
Uses the markings Hauptstimme and Nebenstimme to show the instruments in the orchestra who has the principle and secondary voice
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Harmony and Tonality
Atonal
Much use of Hexachords
Disssonance created by Hexachords
A returning hexachord can be heard in the piece of notes C, Bb, E, F, C# and A
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Texture
Sudden Changes of Texture
In some places a complex polyphonic/ contrapuntal texture can be heard
At other points texture is thinnner and solo instruments can be heard such as clarinet or flute
Full Orchestra is used for final climatic chord
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Instruments
Large post-romantic orchestra
Allowing him to make lots of contrasts in Texture, Timbre and Dynamics
Many sections have increased in size
Quadruple Woodwind, large Brass and Percussion, fairly standard String section
Many parts play in extreme upper and lower ranges
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Dynamics
Dramatic extreme changes
Wide range of Extreme Dynamics - pp to fff
Change very quickly
Many Crescendos and Diminuendos
Mutes are used to create Tone Colour
In Section B, all Principle and Secodary Parts are f-fff
Section A Starts ff but drops to pp in bar 6
Section B Starts pp but Dynamics build up quickly
Section A1 starts loud but quickly drops to pp
Section C range from pp to fff in some individual instruments, ends very quietly
Section A2 crecendos quite quickly from pp to fff then immediately dies away at the end to nothing with a pp chord by the horns and double basses
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Tempo
Tempos change in each Section
The Movement is marked Serh Rasch (very fast)
Other instructions include heftig (passionate) and ruhiger (calmer)
At the end of Section A, a rubato Clarinet line creates the illusion the tempo slowing more than it actually does
Section B returns to the original Tempo marking
Short durations create the ilusion that the Tempo has increased much more than is actually the case
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Rhythm and Metre
Use of Rubato by Clarinets
Use of Syncopation
Lots of Different note lengths from Demi-semiquavers to Semibreves
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