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Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune melody?

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Very lyrical
Opening flute melody tritone range, chromatic and pentatonic
Bar 3 range of octave (could be diatonic or A minor pentatonic on C#)
Melody augmented and spans a perfect 4th next time it appears
Bar 35 clarinet wholetone scales

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Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune harmony and tonality?

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B section chords in parallel motion
Ambiguous tonality at beginning but tonal (E major)
C# important from early but only make sense b.21 E major chord
Key change to Db major
Many 7th chords (non resolving) and other extensions and half diminished chords
Pedals and Chromatic harmony
Melody harmonised differently everytime

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Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune rhythm and metre?

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Metrical ambiguity
Irregular note groupings and ties across bars
Triplets, duplets, quadruplets, quintuplets
Frequent metre changes 9/8, later 6/8 and 2/8 and 3/4
Syncopation
Section B woodwind 6/8 hemiola

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Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune texture?

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Opening monophonic
Doubling of instruments
Homorhythm horn and violin 1
Thicker texture in B section
Mostly homophonic

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Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune instrumentation?

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All string parts divided frequently (not double bass)
Tremelos (in clarinet!), sur la touche, pizz and arco, harp glissandi, mute and harmonics
Doubling powerful effect
Horn plays a note bouche (stopped) and sometimes muted
Large orchestra, Clarinet in A and Bb, limited brass and percussion

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Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune structure?

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Ternary form with coda
A section reprise is shorter and only reprise A1

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6 Bagatelles Op.6 (Webern) melody?

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Not lyrical or catchy (chromaticism, disjunct, etc.)
Virtuosic
Ornamented

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6 Bagatelles Op.6 (Webern) rhythm and metre?

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Changing metres (3/4, 2/4, 3/8, 4/8)
Polyrhythms
Triplets against quavers
3rd piece quintuplets against triplets

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6 Bagatelles Op.6 (Webern) texture?

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Polyphonic

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6 Bagatelles Op.6 (Webern) harmony?

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Chromatic
Dissonant
Cluster chords
No cadences

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6 Bagatelles Op.6 (Webern) structure?

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Split into smaller 30 second pieces each with a different title

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6 Bagatelles Op.6 (Webern) tonality?

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Atonal

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6 Bagatelles Op.6 (Webern) instrumentation?

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String quartet
Lots of timbres (mute, pizz, am steg (playing on the bridge), tremolo, harmonics)

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Webern Op 22 rhythm and metre?

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Changing metre and tempo
Rest on beats (pulse difficult to discern)
Intense syncopation

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Webern Op 22 harmony and tonality?

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Atonal
Chromatic and dissonant
No cadences
Few chords

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Webern Op 22 melody?

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Fragmented, angular, huge range
Prime order heard in tenor sax
Klangfarbenmelodie start of recap

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Webern Op 22 texture?

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Sparse
Mirror canons used throughout

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Webern Op 22 structure?

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Sonata form
Coda mirror of intro

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Erwartung (Schoenberg) vocal part?

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Mostly conjunct, some disjunct (amount increases throughout piece)
Second scene vocal is wider and more jagged leaps
Final scene reality is recitative, illusion is more lyrical

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Erwartung (Schoenberg) melody?

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No single theme repeated
Soprano tessitura is large
Virtuosic
Wide leaps (bar 139 top B to low C#)

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Erwartung (Schoenberg) rhythm and metre?

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Slow tempo
Opening bars 36 bars. In it 9 time sigs and 16 tempo dynamics
Rests on beat
Syncopated rhythms

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Erwartung (Schoenberg) texture?

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Homophonic, monophonic, polyphonic

23
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Erwartung (Schoenberg) instrumentation?

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Piccolo, contrabassoon, xylophone, glockenspiel, cymbals, triangle, bass and side drum, Tam-tam, celeste and rattle used too
Pizz, arco (quick change between two) and glissando all used

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Erwartung (Schoenberg) harmony?

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Atonal
Chromatic
Dissonant
Includes quartel and quintel harmony

25
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Voiles (Debussy) melody?

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Melodic fragments
Use of wholetone and pentatonic scales

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Voiles (Debussy) harmony and tonality?

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Ambiguous tonality
No cadences
Wholetone and pentatonic scales used
Augmented, extended and cluster chords
Pedals and ostinatos used
Occasionally dissonant

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Voiles (Debussy) texture?

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Homophonic
Counter melody

28
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Voiles (Debussy) instrumentation?

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Piano
Glissandos

29
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Voiles (Debussy) rhythm and metre?

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2/4
Ambiguous
Ties across bar lines

30
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Voiles (Debussy) structure?

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Ternary

31
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Poulenc Brass Trio structure?

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Ternary form
Final section B theme used to interrupt expected A themes

32
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Poulenc Brass Trio harmony/tonality?

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Regular cadences
Tonic pedal
Chromatic scale in coda
Enharmonic change in b section
Bb major and f major (unrelated) in b section
Cadential 6/4 with wrong note harmony

33
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Poulenc Brass Trio rhythm and metre?

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Anacrusis
4/4
The 2nd theme features changing metres and syncopation.

34
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Poulenc Brass Trio melody and texture?

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Diatonic and periodic phrasing
Ornamentation and chromaticism in 2nd theme
Legato in b section
Homophonic (m+a)
Octaves at end

35
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Poulenc Brass Trio instrumentation?

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Virtuosic (b section angular lines)
Cadenza like passage preceded by jumps of 2 octaves in the trumpet in middle of B section
Odd choice of instruments

36
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Prokofiev Classical Symphony structure?

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Sonata form in mvt 1 and 4
Exposition repeated mvt 4
Ternary form mvt 3

37
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Prokofiev Classical Symphony texture?

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Mainly homophonic
Imitation in development esp mvt 4
Homophonic block chords B section gavotte
Antiphonal between strings and winds

38
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Prokofiev Classical Symphony instrumentation?

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Standard classical double wind
Limited brass use
Woodwind doubling strings, occasional independent lines (A section gavotte)
Virtuosic final mvt
Difficult violin writing (mvt 1 punta d’arco, mvt 2 very high)

39
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Prokofiev Classical Symphony harmony and tonality?

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Mvt 1 d major
Bar 11 1st subject C major
Recap in c major not tonic
Fig 6 in expected dominant, but later F major
Mvt 3 subdominant in b section

40
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Prokofiev Classical Symphony rhythm and metre?

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Quintuplets in mvt 1
Changing metres e.g. 2/4 instead of 2/2 in mvt 1

41
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Pulcinella Suite Stravinsky Structure?

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Rounded binary no repeats sinfonia
Modulates to dominant end of A section, B section in dominant (sinfonia and gavotte)

42
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Pulcinella Suite Stravinsky rhythm and metre?

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Sinfonia: 4/4 and changing metres
Opening bar syncopation on beats 3 and 4
Dotted rhythms
Frequent rests added
Gavotte: Variation 1 in 6/8 (from 4/4)

43
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Pulcinella Suite Stravinsky melody?

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Follow 18th century model
Ornamentation and sequences
Balanced phrasing

44
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Pulcinella Suite Stravinsky texture?

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Mostly m+a
Sinfonia polyphony (oboe melody imitated half a bar later by bassoon and counter melody on cello)
Violins in thirds sinfonia b12

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Pulcinella Suite Stravinsky harmony and tonality (sinfonia)?

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Frequent dissonance
Clear what key we’re in
G major, modulates to dominant early, other closely related keys in B section, ends in tonic
G major through A major to B minor
Circle fifths early in piece
Simple underlying harmonies

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