Edexcel Gcse Music: Schoenberg Peripetie

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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