Rite Of Spring Flashcards
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Melody
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- Bassoon solo is inspired by Lithuanian Folk Song. Very decorated melody.
- Mvt 2: Theme 1 figure 19 in bassoon and contrabassoon. Conjunct melody with accents.
Theme 2: horn figure 25. Diatonic Legato folk melody, using acciaccatura like Russian folk. This theme is answered by flute.
Theme 3 trumpets. Tenuto crotchets and quavers. Becomes countermelody at figure 39. - Repeated note figures mvt2 b101 in trumpet, piccolo trumpet and horn.
- Rising and falling chromatic sextuplets at mvt2 figure 17 in woodwind.
- Horn 2 note new figure at figure 40 mvt 3.
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Texture
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- Intro: Bassoon monophonic opening, and at end. SAARIAHO.
- 2part texture when horn enters. SAARIAHO STAVE 8+13
- 4 part texture w Cor anglais and 3 bassoons. JOHN CAGE 3 DANCES
- polyphonic textures in the climax.
- Augurs of Spring: homorhythmmic chords strings. JOHN CAGE FIGURE 7
- Figure 15: Melody dominated homophony, melodic fragments heard over repeated chords. JOHN CAGE 3 DANCES FROM PHRASE 38
- figure 16. Cross-rhythmic layers. ostinato in straight quavers, triplet in viola, overlaid w chordal blasts and brief melodic snatches
3
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Instrumentation
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very large orchestra, like Berlioz. Unusual instruments like cor anglais. SZYMANOWSKI KING ROGER
- intro: figure 4 little fragments of pizz. SHOS 15
- figure 10 6 double bass solo parts con sord, harmonics used as well as pizz. FIREBIRD INTRO
- fig 11 viola gliss harmonics and in climax.
- leading into next mvt vln1 has pizz semiquaver motif
- augurs of spring: strings repeated down bows playing double stops, accents on off beats. PETRUSHKA MVT 1 DOWNBOWS
- muted trumpet chords. flutter tongue in flutes and clarinets fig16. PETRUSHKA MVT 3
- Col legno fig24 combined w tremolandi in bassons and vlns
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Harmony
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- non-functional.
- dissonant.
- drones figure 24
- harmonic stasis fig13
- parallelism of 4ths fig1
- whole tone structures.fig8
- bitonal structures fig13. combination of Fbmajor(Emaj) in bass and dom7th of Ab in treble
