Peripetie -schoenberg Flashcards

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Rhythm

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Metre changes between 3/4 2/4 and 4/4 
Complex and varied 
Rhythms change very quickly 
Sehr rasch tempo (very quick)
Heftig (passionate)
Ruhiger (calmer)
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Texture

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  • Constantly changing
  • Contrast between dramatic effect of full orchestra and sparser texture with few instruments
  • frequent and sudden dynamic changes
  • ideas developed through imitation and inversion
  • complex and polyphonic with moments of homophonic & monophonic
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Instruments

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Contrast in timbre
Written for large orchestra
Extremes of pitch range
In section c there are solo lines for cello and double bass

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Genre

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Expressionism- intense emotion
Shorter pieces
Timbre as important as melody
Huge dynamic and pitch range

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Structure

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Free rondo form- ABACA
Sections are different lengths
A sections not exactly the same

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Harmony and tonality

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Atonal- isn’t is a key
Dissonant harmony (clashes)
Chords and melodies built of hexachords (6 notes)

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When was it composed and when was it first performed?

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C= 1909
First= 1912
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Melody

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-Made of short motifs combined in different ways
-disjunct
Angular
Octave displacement
Varied through imitation
Augmentation (notes longer)
Klangfarbenmelodie (tone-colour- melody)

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