Peripetie

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Who is by?
Arnold Schoenberg
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What is the style?
Expressionism
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When was it composed?
1909
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Where is it from?
From 'Five Orchestral Pieces'
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What is number is it from the 5 Orchestrial Pieces?
4
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Describe features of expressionist music
Angular melodies with wide leaps, High level of dissonance, Lots of atonal and extremely chromatic harmonies, extreme contrasts of dynamics, no cadences, repetition or sequences
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Structure of piece?
Free Rondo; A(as clarinet finishes) b1-18-B(as cello solo)b18-35-A1(builds up. Brass dominated)b35-44-C(Calm strings melody, Bassoon)b44-59-A2(builds up again, soft calm with outbursts) DUN DUN DUN b59-66
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What does Klangfarbenmelodie mean?
Noise,Colour,Melody-> Changing timbre through different instruments creating it
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What is the word for Primary Voice?
Hampstimme
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Word for secondary voice?
Nebenstimme
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What is the six notes of motif?
Hexachord; C#,D,E,F,G#,A
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What are the remaining 6 notes called?
Compliments. C,D#,F#,G,A#,B
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How do he used the hexachord and developed the 6 pitches
Retrograde, Inversion,Octave Displacement, Transposition,Retrograde Inversion, augmentation and diminution, using compliment
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How would you describe the melody?
Non-functional,non discript,jagged,angular,dissonant,fragmented,chromatic,wide tessitura,
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Where are phrases fragmented in the piece?
Clarinet and Cello solo
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How would you describe Harmony and Tonality
Atonal,dissonant,chromatic
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Any harmonic device used?
Hexachord; being played a chord
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There is no...
Sense of pulse. There is a pulse as the piece is written by meter, but is hard to hear.
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Rythmic devices?
Synocpation, polyrhythms, irregular rhythms, complex rhythms (odd grouping of odd values), short note values, fragmented rhythms
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Tempo reflect moods such as?
Heftig(passionable), ruhiger(calm)
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Texture in Clarinet Solo?
Monophonic
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The texture is mainly...
Contrapuntal because he creates klangfarbenmelodie, (also sometimes sparse and varied)
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Additional orchestral instruments used include...
Cor anglaise, piccolo, bass clarinet, 6 horns, 4 trombones, tam tam, xylophone which play in high/low ranges to add colour
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Typical twentieth century musical features in Peripertie
Large orchestra, wide ranging dynamics, Detailed dynamic markings, Atonal, Rhythmically complex, frequent use of devices to alter the timbre (mute, tremolo, pizz.)
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What happens at the end...
Smorzando (dies aways) and the last two bars contain a tremolo in the strings
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What does Ffp mean?
Very loud then quickly soft
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The tempo
Changes frequently
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Order of dynamics
A(piano)-> cresendos and diminuendos-> pp-ff-pp-ff(repeat)-> cresendo to forte-> Little diminuendo back to A -> Codetta (pp)-> Smorzando
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What is is made up of?
Short, fragmented motifs.
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