Webern - Quartet Op. 22:movement I

STRUCTURE

• Modified sonata form

- introduction

- exposition

- development

- link

- recapitulation

- coda

MELODY

• based on note row
• prime order
• inversion
• retrograde
• retrograde inversion 
• angular leaps of 7ths and 9ths

RHYTHM / METRE

• 3/8   4/8   5/8
• based on 3 rhythmic cells 

TEXTURE

• contrapuntal
• sparse and pointillist

TONALITY

• atonal
• widest range = 5 octaves on C (bar 22)
• Klangfarbenmelodie (bar 28-32)

TIMBRE

• violin
• clarinet
• tenor saxophone
• piano
• pizzicato
• arco

HARMONY

• dissonant
• chromaticism
• enharmonic notation (bar 7)