Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Peripetie - Schoenberg
- Background: expressionism; late romantic
period; 1909; Peripetie=sudden reversal.
- Dynamics: extremes of dynamics
used throughout.
- Tempo and rhythm: sehr rasch (very
quick); rubato; 3/4; complex rhythms:
sextuplets, dotted rhythms, double dotted,
cross rhythms and syncopation.
- Structure: rondo form but with very
developed A sections.
- Melody: angular melodies;
klangfarbenmelodie (instrument's sounds
are as important as what the play).
- Instruments: large
orchestra to give extreme
ranges.
- Harmony/tonality: recurring
hexachord; it can be transposed and
creates dissonances.
- Texture: A: homophonic bursts.
B: polyphonic and complex.
- Musical features: atonal; 1 intense
emotion; extremes of dynamics;
pieces are quite short.