Schoenberg - Peripete

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  • Created on: 07-06-17 09:36
When did Schoenberg compose peripete?
1909
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What period of music was composed in?
Expressionist period
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Who did Schoenberg compose this piece for?
An Orchestra
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Typical features of expressionist music?
1) Lots of dissonance 2) Contrasting dynamics 3) Changing textures 4) Angular and distorted melodies with wide leaps
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Other expressionist composers?
1) Berg 2) Webern
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What is the structure of this piece?
Free Rondo ABACA
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What is the tempo like in Section A?
Sehr rasch (very quick) rubato clarinet from bar 10
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Section A contains mostly ________, ___________ and ________________
1) Triplets 2) Sextuplets 3) Demisemiquavers
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What is the rhythm and tempo in section B?
1) Uses different rhythms which overlap. 2) Short note duration
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What is the rhythm and tempo like in Section A1?
It is a variation of A
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What is the rhythm and tempo like in Section C?
Alternates between ruhiger (calmer) and heftig (passionate)
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What is the rhythm and tempo like in A2?
Another variation of A but speeds up with use of triplets.
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What are the instruments used in this piece?
1)3 flutes, clarinets, oboes, bassoons. 2)Cor anglais, piccolo, clarinet in D, bass clarinet, contra-bassoon. 3)(muted) Trumpets, French horns, (muted) trombones, tuba. 4)Large string section. 5)Xylophones, Tam-tam, bass drum, cymbals
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What is the key signature of this piece?
Atonal (no key)
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What are the harmony and dynamics like in Section A?
1) Motifs based on hexachords. 2) Dissonant harmony (use of the interval of a 7th) 3) Sudden loud bursts ranges from fff to pp
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What are the harmony and dynamics like in Section B?
starts off very soft
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What are the harmony and dynamics like in Section A1?
Dissonant harmony and extreme dynamic range?
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What are the harmony and dynamics like in Section C?
range pp to fff. A very loud semi-quaver passages.
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What are the harmony and dynamics like in Section A2?
Crescendos very quickly from pp to fff dissonant chords and immediately dies away to finish with a pp chord.
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What is the instrumentation and texture like in Section A?
1) Full orchestra Homophonic and solo sections use of muted brass for timbre effects.
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What is the instrumentation and texture like in Section A?
1) Full orchestra Homophonic and solo sections use of muted brass for timbre effects. 2) Opens with motif played by flutes, clarinets, and bassoons. 3) Then a chromatic scale by muted trumpet and trombone glissando. 4) Instruments play 'as families'
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What is the instrumentation and texture like in Section B?
Very thick texture in percussion and woodwind
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What is the instrumentation and texture like Section C?
Sparse texture - with solo instruments overlapping
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What is the instrumentation and texture like Section A2?
Builds up from clarinets and strings to the full orchestra (tutto) Double bass play tremolo chord in very high register.
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What is the pitch and melody in Section A?
Opening motifs. 1) Bar 1 is C#, D, E, F, G#, A. 2) Bar 3 is A, A#, B, C, E, G#
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What is the pitch and melody in Section A1?
Return of a hexachord on the horns.
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What is the pitch and melody in Section C?
Bassoon tune, taken over by the cello and double bass.
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What is the pitch and melody in Section A2?
Motifs are piled up on top of each other and are played in counterpoint and canon.
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What is the articulation / Ornamentation of this piece?
1) Use of tremolo - double basses at end. 2) Mutes in brass.
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What is the principle melody (hauptimme) mainly played by?
1) Horns 2) Clarinets 3) Cellos
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Reasons to dislike this piece?
1) No key 2) Clashing melodies 3) Extreme dynamics 4) No clear beat 5) Large range of instruments used
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