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12 Cards in this Set
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When was is composed? |
1909 |
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What style of music is it? |
Expressionist |
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Key? |
Atonal |
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Metre? |
Changes between 3/4, 2/4 and 4/4 |
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Structure? |
Free rondo form - Five sections: A, B, A1, B, A2 |
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Tempo? |
Sehr rasch (very fast); ruhiger (calmer) and heftig (passionate) |
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Instrumentation? |
Large post-Romantic Orchestra - Quadruple woodwind section Piccolo, 3 Flutes, 3 Oboes, Cor anglais in F, Clarinet in D, 3 Clarinets in B flat, Bass clarinet in B flat, 3 Bassoons and Contrabassoon. - Large Brass Section 6 Horns in F, 3 Trumpets in B flat, 4 Trombones and Tube. - Percussion Xylophone, Cymbals, Tam tam and Bass drum. - Strings 1st and 2nd Violins, Viola, Cello and Double bass. |
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Melody? |
- Made up of short, fragmented motifs - Disjunct melodies with many large leaps - Formed from hexachords - Melodies varied by inversion and rhythm augmentation |
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Rhythm? |
- Rhythms are varied and complex and change quickly - Different rhythmic patterns on top of each other |
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Harmony and Tonality? |
- Atonal - Lots of dissonant harmony - Chords and melodies built from hexachords (group of six notes) |
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Texture? |
- Largely contrapuntal with occasional monophony and homophony - Complex textures built up by imitation and inversion - Final climax created by three different canons heard at once |
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Dynamics? |
- Frequent, sudden changes of dynamics and extreme contrasts between ppp and fff |
