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14 Cards in this Set
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Style of this piece
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Expressionism
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Features of expressionism
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Early 20th Century Orchestral Music
Atonal Extreme use of pitch range No sense of metre |
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What does Peripetie mean?
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Sudden changes in Greek
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What year was it released?
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1909
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Instrumentation and timbre
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-Large Orchestra of at least 90 players made up of strings, woodwind (including piccolo, cor anglais), brass and percussion.
-Instrumentation changes rapidly creating contrasts in timbre. -Performers play at extremes of their instrument's range. -Instruments are played in different ways to create even more timbres e.g cymbal played with a cello bow |
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Tempo
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Very Quick (Sehr Rasch in German)
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Rhythm
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-Changes between 3/4, 2/4 & 4/4
- Rhythms are complex, varied and change quickly -No sense of metre |
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Tonality
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Atonal (No Key)
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Harmony
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-Use of hexachords (groups of 6 notes from the chromatic scale)
-Dissonant (clashing) |
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Texture
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-Varies from solo flute to very thick when the whole orchestra plays at once.
-Mostly contrapuntal, with occasional monophonic and homophonic moments. |
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Melody
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Angular melodies with leaps in pitch.
Klangfarbenmelodie- passing the tune quickly around the orchestra to vary the timbres. Melodies are built from hexachords - H= Haupstimme= the main melody -N=Nebenstimme= the 2nd most important melody |
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Structure
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-Free rondo ABACA
- A sections variations of the first A section. -5 sections. |
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Dynamics
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-Extreme dynamics range from ppp to fff
-Frequent sudden changes in dynamics |
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Why is it called Peripetie?
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-Sudden changes in dynamics
-Rapid changes of timbres and instruments -Sudden changes in texture |