Tchaik 5 Flashcards
Romantic Elements - Melody
- Expressive and Lyrical
- Varying phrase lengths - often long and uneven
- Often complex, using a wide range of and large intervals
Romantic Elements - Rhythm
- Diverse, often complex
- Flexible and changing tempi
- Use of rubato
Romantic Elements - Harmony
- Use of chromatic harmony to create rich, colorful and complex harmonies
- Greater use of dissonance to with resolutions delayed to heighten tension
- A wide range of keys and frequent modulations to distant keys
Romantic Elements - Texture
- Generally homophonic, but fluctuations of texture used to provide contrast
- Sudden shifts in texture
Romantic Elements - Form
- Classical forms expanded and treated more fairly
- New forms and genres developed
Romantic Elements - Timbre
- A wide range of expressive tone color and sensuous sound
- The addition of new instruments and the increased size of the orchestra led to new and varied timbres
- Woodwinds, brass and percussion played prominent roles in orchestral works
Romantic Elements - Dynamics
- Extremely wide dynamic range, with gradual or sudden changes
- A lot more detail on the score
What is the key of the exposition first subject?
e minor
What is the key of the exposition transition?
b minor
What is the key of the exposition second subject?
D major
What is the key of the recap first subject?
e minor
What is the key of the recap transition?
c# minor
What is the key of the recap second subject?
E major
Andante
Walking pace
Pesante e tenuto sostenuto
Heavy and always well marked
Piu f
Louder
Sf
strong accent
Allegro con anima
Fast and lively with spirit
Grazioso e leggiero
Gracefully and light
Sempre
Always
Molto espr
Very expresssivw
Poco meno animato
A little less animated
String
Stringendo - pushing forward
Un pochettino piu animato
A little more animated
Molto piu tranquillo
A lot more calm
Molto cantabile ed espr
Very singing and expressive
Largamente
Very broadly
Molto piu tranquillo come supra
Much more calmly than above
Sons bouches
Stopped sound
Gestopft
Stopped sound
Spiccato assai
very staccato
How did romantic composers see music
As a means of individual and emotional expression
How is the motto theme stated in the first movement?
- More melancholic and sombre mood
- Played softly and low on clarinets
How is the motto theme stated in the third movement?
- Out of character for the waltz and schertzo movement
- It is now in A major and remains in the meter and rhythmic style of the rest of the movement
What is cyclical thematicism
The practice of inserting or repeating a theme from an earlier movement into subsequent movements of a larger work
