Schoenberg- Peripetie

Question 1

Schoenberg:

Tempo, Rhythm and Metre (5 points)

Answer 1

🙉Sehr Rasch= Very fast.

🙉(Etwas) Ruhiger= (Somewhat) Calmer.

🙉Lots of sextuplets, triplets and semiquavers.

🙉Sustained notes e.g: in B sections.

🙉Starts in 3/4, also changes to 2/4 and 4/4.

Question 2

Schoenberg:

Tonality (1 point)

Answer 2

🙉Atonal= no key.

Question 3

Schoenberg:

Harmony (2 points)

Answer 3

🙉Chords made from hexachords and compliment notes.

🙉Dissonant harmony.

Question 4

Schoenberg:

Structure (2 points)

Answer 4

🙉Free rondo form= same melodic ideas repeat a few times.

🙉However, sections are different lengths, textures and tempos.

Question 5

Schoenberg:

Instrumentation (7 points)

Answer 5

🙉Large full orchestra.

🙉Klangfarbenmelodie.

🙉Experiments with passing melody around different instruments.

🙉Performers required to play at extremes of their range.

🙉Unusual effects- e.g: cymbals played with mallet and a cello bow.

🙉Double basses play tremolo close to the bridge.

🙉Orchestra includes: piccolo, cor anglais, bass clarinet, contrabasson and tam-tam.

Question 6

Schoenberg:

Texture and Dynamics (6 points)

Answer 6

🙉Texture varied throughout- not often homophonic, more monophonic and polyphonic.

🙉Starts very sparse and thin.

🙉Texture builds at time- e.g: bar 62 where all orchestra plays.

🙉Complex textures built through techniques such as imitation and inversion.

🙉Extremes of dynamics.

🙉Frequent and sudden changes of dynamics- ppp➡️ff.

Question 7

Schoenberg:

Melody (9 points)

Answer 7

🙉Melody created from hexachords- 1^st hexachord bar 1 clarinets.

🙉Melody passed around different instruments (Klangfarbenmelodie).

🙉Melody fragments used.

🙉Haupstimme= Principal voice, most important melodic line.

🙉Nebenstimme= Secondary voice, 2^nd most important melodic line.

🙉Extremes of pitch.

🙉Melodies are disjunct and often sound angular.

🙉Use of octave displacement.

🙉Motifs varied- e.g: inversion, imitation, rhythmic augmentation and diminution.