Schoenburg's Peripetie from 5 Orchestral Pieces
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- Created on: 11-12-16 13:12
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- Schoenberg's Peripetie from Five Orchestral Pieces
- INSTRUMENTS
- large orchestra
- constantly changing instrumentation - contrasted timbre
- extreme ranges of instruments
- cymbal with cello bow
- less well known - piccolo, cor Anglais, bass clarinet, contrabassoon + tam-tam
- TONALITY
- atonal
- dissonance
- MELODY
- short motifs
- all melodic material introduced in 1st section
- disjunct + angular melodies
- octave displacement
- inverted motifs + altered using augmentation of rhythm
- TEXTURE
- largely contrapuntal with some homophonic + monophonic
- imitation + inversion
- HARMONY
- chords built from hexachords
- no harmonic devices
- STRUCTURE
- free rondo form with 5 sections (ABACA)
- free - not traditional classical rondo (different sections contrasted)
- RHYTHM, METRE & TEMPO
- metre - 3/4, 2/4 + 4/4
- Sehr rasch - very fast
- complex + varied rhythms
- different rhythms layered - complex contrapuntal texture
- DYNAMICS
- sudden changes
- ppp + fff
- INSTRUMENTS
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