Test #4 (Lecture 12) Flashcards
Arnold Schoenberg saw himself as a _____
traditionalist
Describe Schoenberg’s Early Period
-intensely chromatic
Gurrelieder, Quartet in D minor, Chamber Symphony in E Major, Verklarte Nacht
Describe Schoenberg’s Middle Period
-atonality
SQ No,2, Pierrot Lunaire
describe the transition from chromaticism to atonality
- emancipation of the dissonance
- dissonance no longer just an interesting addition
- lack of tonal center
Schoenberg preferred the term____over atonality
pantonality
Who commissioned Pierrot Lunaire?
Albertine Zehme
where is the text in Pierrot Lunaire from?
expressionist poet Albert Giraud
what is the “Pierrot ensemble” composed of?
- piano
- flute/piccolo
- clarinet/bass clarinet
- violin/viola
- cello
- vocalist
- conductor
describe Pierrot
- stock character (usually masked)
- from commedia dell’arte
- the melancholy clown pining for Columbine
Describe Sprechstimme
- Schoenberg
- speech-voice
- origins in 1890s cabaret
- used in Gurrelieder
- note heads are Xs
- voice drops instead of sustaining pitch
- declamatory style with rhythms and pitches indicated in score
who made up the Second Viennese School?
Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Alan Berg
describe set theory
- Allen Forte
- framework for analysis of atonal music
- sets built from 2-10 pitch classes
- described in prime form
- way to illustrate structural coherence
How does Berg structure Wozzeck in the absence of tonality?
- draws on many traditional instrumental forms
- 15 scenes from original play
- 3 Acts (5 scenes in each)
Describe each Act in Wozzeck
Act 1: (Exposition), 5 character pieces
Act 2: (Peripeteia or Development), symphony in 5 movements
Act 3: (Catastrophe or Denouement), 6 inventions
there is ____ imagery throughout Wozzeck
blood
