A2 - Schoenburg

Question 1

What key is the piece in?

Answer 1

No key, the piece is atonal

Question 2

Where does the repeated melodic phrase occur?

Answer 2

At the end, it’s an augmented version of the starting motif

Question 3

Describe the phraselengths of the piece

Answer 3

The phraselengths are unclear and vary in length

Question 4

What type of melody is found in the flute part?

Answer 4

Frende Melody at Bar 6 (means strange melody)

Question 5

Give examples of decoration in the piece

Answer 5

Trill B5
Staccato and Tenuto marking at B3
Mordants B25

Question 6

Describe the text setting of the piece

Answer 6

Syllabic, but is read by a reciter instead of a singer

Question 7

Describe the tessitura of the piece

Answer 7

The tessitura is wide due to it being a 20th century piece in voice B8

Flute plays usually low notes B1-2

Question 8

What’s the metre of the piece

Answer 8

Compound duple metre

Question 9

Describe the notelengths of the piece

Answer 9

The notelengths of the piece vary throughout

Question 10

Describe the tempo

Answer 10

The piece is played very slowly

Question 11

What type of rhythms are played in the piece?

Answer 11

Triplet rhythms at B14

Question 12

Describe the shape of the piece

Answer 12

Conjunct and chromatic, with larger leaps e.g. Augmented 9th at B13

Question 13

What’s the structure of the piece?

Answer 13

Through composed, split into three verses as it’s from a poem
B1, B12, B21

Solo flute parts B8-11

Question 14

Give an example of an interval in the piece

Answer 14

Dissonance is formed by the diminished octave interval at B3

Question 15

How many semitones are used in the first 7 bars

Answer 15

11 out of 12

Question 16

Describe the rate of harmonic change in the piece

Answer 16

It’s unclear

Question 17

Describe the texture of the piece

Answer 17

No chords are used due to single line melodic instruments, creating a polyphonic texture (B1-7)

The solo flute indicates the end of the verses, it’s monophonic and has sudden changes in dynamics (B7)

Question 18

Name the forces in the piece

Answer 18

Reciter and Flute

Question 19

Give the history of the piece

Answer 19

‘Der Kranke Monde’ means the sick moon, wrote from a melodrama.

Pierrot Lunaire is a pantomime character and the poem is the 7th of the 21

Wrote in French in 1912

Question 20

Where are Triplets present?

Answer 20

B14

Question 21

What is the key of the piece?

Answer 21

The key varies from section to section

Bitonality occurs at B26 with G and C# at the same time

Atonal at B72

Question 22

Where does a pedal occur?

Answer 22

B13-19