Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Peripetie - Schoenberg
- Expressionism
- Express feelings as
intensely as possible
- Atonal music (no key)
- The 'Five Orchestral Pieces'
- Composed in 1909
- Difficult to perform because of the music's
experimental nature and large orchestra
- 'Peripetie' is the fourth piece
- The title means 'reverse order', reflecting
the characteristics of the piece
- Instrumentation
- Large orchestra
- Changes rapidly - contrasts in timbre
- Extremes of range are used
- Unusual effect e.g. cymbals are played with both a
mallet and cello bow, and the double basses play a
tremolo close to the bridge of their instrument
- Performance Markings
- Haupstimme, meaning the most important part
- Nebenstimme, meaning the second most important part
- Tutti - everyone joins in
- Pizz - pluck strings
- Arco - bow strings
- Melody
- Made up of may short,
fragmented motifs
- Disjunct (many large leaps)
- Sounds angular
- Use of octave displacement
- No real melody - use of inversion (turned upside
down) and augmentation (note values double)
- Rhythm, Metre and Tempo
- Metre changes between 3/4, 2/4 and 4/4
- Tempo is very quick
- Complex and varied rhythms that change quickly. At times, there are
layers of different rhythmic textures on top of each other - polyphonic
- Tonality and Harmony
- Atonal - use of dissonant harmony
- Hexachords
- Texture and Dynamics
- Largely polyphonic, with some
monophonic and homophonic moments
- Use of imitation and inversion
- Frequent sudden changes of
dynamics (contrasts in ppp and fff)
- Structure
- Free rondo form with 5
sections (ABACA)