texture Flashcards
texture often
changes rapidly
bars 1-4
brass fanfares with string and woodwind trills, and descending scalic figures in horns in 3rds from bar 2
bars 5-8
theme in consecutive 5ths and 8ths in flutes and glockenspiel, with 3rd continuing in strings below
bar 8
contrary motion scales, with parallel 6ths at the top of the homophonic texture
bars 9-10
ostinato-like figures in cellos, with octave leaps and trills in clarinets
polyphonic
auric often
misses out lower instruments to give a high-pitched texture bar 11
he sometimes uses
only lower instruments bar 15- to give a low pitched texture
bass dominated homophony
bar 21-22
tune in bassoon and pizzicato cellos and basses
strings accompany with repeated chords
melody-dominated homophony
bar 55
tutti music
at the end is clearly homophonic
antiphonal writing
at bar 36-37, with brass alternating with upper strings and woodwind