Peripetie Flashcards
1
Q
What period was Peripetie written in?
A
Expressionism (early 20th century)
2
Q
Schoenberg founded what including which 2 composers?
A
Second Viennese School including Berg and Webern
3
Q
When was Peripetie composed?
A
1909
4
Q
What does Peripetie mean?
A
‘A sudden reversal’
5
Q
3 reasons why Peripetie is difficult to perform
A
- Large orchestra required
- Expensive
- Not many perform due to its experimental nature
6
Q
Instrumentation of Peripetie
A
- Large orchestra = over 90 players (woodwind, percussion, strings, large brass section)
- Instrumentation changes rapidly throughout = contrasts in timbre
- Extreme ranges in pitch
- Unusual effects (e.g. cymbals played with cello bow)
7
Q
What does Haupstimme mean?
A
Principal melody
Main melodic line
8
Q
What does Nebenstimme mean?
A
Secondary melody (Second most important melodic line)
9
Q
What does divisi mean?
A
Players divide into groups
10
Q
What does pizzicato mean?
A
Pluck the strings
11
Q
What does arco mean?
A
Bow the strings
12
Q
What is a tremolo?
A
Note is rapidly repeated
13
Q
Metre of Peripetie
A
3/4, 2/4 and 4/4
14
Q
Melody of Peripetie
A
- Made up of short, fragmented motifs that are combined in different ways
- Disjunct, very angular melodies created for example by octave displacement
- Motifs varied using inversion and rhythmic augmentation
15
Q
What does octave displacement mean?
A
Unexpectedly moving individual notes of main melody into different octave
