Music Structure

Peripetie Arnold Schoenberg

This piece in in Free Rondo Form, five sections of (ABACA)

Something's Coming Leonard Bernstein 

Melody is entirely syllabic. 

Alternation of three main themes:

1. The quiet, syncopated opening theme.
2. The loud strident theme in 2/4 first heard at bar 21.
3. The lyrical, slow moving theme, first heard at bar 73.

These three ideas are sometimes alternated a number of times.

Electric Counterpoint Steve Reich

Movement builds up in three layers:

1. Syncopated quaver motif introduced in live guitar and top four guitars one part at a time.
2. New syncopated quaver motif is introduced this time in the bass guitar.
3. Sustained motif built around three chords begins in the live guitar.