Music Gcse Set Works Aos 2

Front 1

Peripetite - Melody

Back 1

Haupestimme - main melody

Nebenstimme - secondary melody

Klangfarbenmelodie - timbre contributed to the melody

Disjunct

Chromatic notes

Front 2

Peripetite - dynamics

Back 2

Ranges from ppp - fff

Some rapid crescendo and diminuendos

sudden and extreme

Front 3

Peripetite - texture

Back 3

varied - mainly homophonic with thinner and thicker sections throughout

some polyphony

Front 4

Peripetite - structure

Back 4

mini rondo form - A-B-A-C-A

returning A sections are shorter

A1, B & C are similar length

Front 5

Peripetite - Harmony

Back 5

Hexachords - 6 notes available from the 12 in the chromatic scale

Complement - 6 other notes

Whole piece arranged into a prime order which is rearranged by retrograde, inversion & retrograde inversion

Front 6

Peripetite - Instrumentation

Back 6

Performed by a large 90 piece orchestra

Changes rapidly creating change in timbre

Woodwind, percussion, Brass, Strings

Extreme ranges

Many instruments double

Front 7

Peripetite - Rhythm

Back 7

Changes between 3/4, 2/4, 4/4 making it jumpy

Complex rhythms

Dotted minims --> semi quavers

Slurred notes

Staccato

Syncopated

Precise phrasing

Front 8

Peripetite - Tonality

Back 8

Atonal

Dissonant harmonies

Hexachords

Front 9

Peripetite - speed

Back 9

Sehr Rasch - very quick

Rubato

Markings include - passionate, calmer, somewhat calmer and in tempo

Front 10

Something's Coming - Melody

Back 10

2 melody lines

1st - short, snappy

2nd - sustained and lyrical

more syllabic

word painting used

largely conjunct

Front 11

Something's Coming - Dynamics

Back 11

Short and snappy = quieter

Long and sustained = louder

Lots of crescendos and diminuendos

Front 12

Something's Coming - Structure

Back 12

Intro - A - B - B2 - A2 - outro

excited - nervous - excited

inverted structure

Front 13

Something's Coming - Harmony

Back 13

Diatonic

Diabolus in musica - tritone - devils note

Front 14

Something's Coming - Rhythm

Back 14

2/4 and 3/4

Push rhythms

Cross Rhythms

Syncopated

Sudden changes in time signature

ostinato

Front 15

Something's Coming - tonality

Back 15

starts in D major and modulates to C major with F# throughout

modulates between the two

D = long sustained

C = short and snappy

Front 16

Electric Counterpoint - Melody

Back 16

Live guitar plays resultant melody

Phase shifting

Note addition

Note Subtraction

Ostinati

Metamorphosis

Front 17

Electric Counterpoint - Dynamics

Back 17

Dynamic markings on all guitars

Live guitar dynamically contrasts

Dynamics are subtle

Ends ff

Front 18

Electric Counterpoint - Texture

Back 18

Polyphonic/ Contrapuntal

Layering

starts monophonic

Guitars pick and strum

Homophonic end

Only guitars 1-4 and live are playing codetta

Front 19

Electric Counterpoint - Structure

Back 19

A - B - codetta

B starts with a key change

4 subsections within A and B

Coda same length as B

Section A longest

Front 20

Electric Counterpoint - Harmony

Back 20

Bass notes show tonality

Bass underpins harmony

Strummed chords support harmony

chords = C, Bm, E5 - C, D, Em - C, D, Bm

Front 21

Electric Counterpoint - Instrumentation

Back 21

1 live guitar

7 electric guitars

2 bass records

all guitars are recorded apart from live

Front 22

Electric Counterpoint - Rhythm

Back 22

starts 3/2 but ambiguous could be 12/8

cross rhythms

polyrhythmic

syncopated

Front 23

Electric Counterpoint - Tonality

Back 23

Tonic Em

Modal - E Aeolian

modulates between Em and Cm (E/C - electric counterpoint)