1. “The Scream” by Edvard Munch Expressionist artist
Schoenberg ( )
Serial composer
“Peripetie” was completed in 1912 as part of a set of five orchestral pieces
“A sudden change of fortune”
“The Scream” by Edvard Munch
Expressionist artist
Painted between

2. e.g. they both sound exciting and uplifting
TASK: Listen to Schoenberg’s “Peripetie” an write 3 words or sentences which compare the painting and the music
e.g. they both sound exciting and uplifting
EXTENSION: Make notes about the music using your workbook mind-map
Can you identify a structure?

3. The rules of Bounce! ONE person talks at a time!
Share your idea or answer clearly!
“Bounce” by choosing the next person (Boy/Girl -new row)
ONE person talks at a time!
Always be ready and alert!

4. Developed a technique known as serial
Schoenberg ( )
Born in Vienna, Austria
Founded the Second Viennese School: a group of composers who wrote Expressionist music
“Artist, writers and composers wanted to express their emotions through their art form as intensely as possible.
Taught Berg & Webern.
He started writing atonal music when his wife left him for his friend who was an artist.
Developed a technique known as serial

5. What are the features of Expressionism?
Atonal – Gives each semitone equal importance
Each piece expresses one, intense emotion.
Use the full ranges of instruments, exploring the pitches available at the extremes.
Timbre is as important as melody
Extreme dynamics – Very dramatic when played in a large ensemble.
Quite short pieces – It is difficult to write extended pieces in this style, without key relationships and recognisable themes in the traditional sense to form a structural framework.

6. Structure: Key Questions 1. How many different sections are there. 2
Structure: Key Questions 1. How many different sections are there? 2. What form does the music use? 3. How are the different sections different?

7. AOS2: Schoenberg: ‘Peripetie’ - Melody: Prime Order
12 pitches of a chromatic scale in a set order which Schoenberg then uses to develop individual melodies or melodic ideas (motifs).
The row may be used in it’s original form, inverted, retrograde or transposed, for example:

8. EXTENSION: Can you invert the prime row for a second melody?
Schoenberg uses the prime row (original order) in a retrograde form (backwards).
Prime:
Retrograde:
TASK: Compose your own melody using the retrograde of the prime order. Remember you can match the pitches to any rhythm you decide to use.
EXTENSION: Can you invert the prime row for a second melody?

9. AoS 2: Music in the 20th Century Schoenberg: Peripetie From Five Orchestral Pieces Op16 (1909, revised 1922)
Hexachords

10. What is a hexachord?
A hexachord is simply a set of 6 different notes   Schoenberg bases what can be described as the harmony of this movement on hexachords, and derives many of his melodic ideas from the notes contained in the chords

11. Structure: Key Questions 1
Structure: Key Questions 1. What do all of these hexachords have in common?
Semi tone -> Tone -> Semi Tone -> Minor 3rd -> Semi Tone
Semi tone -> Tone -> Semi Tone -> Minor 3rd -> Semi Tone
Semi tone -> Tone -> Semi Tone -> Minor 3rd -> Semi Tone

12. Schoenberg uses a scale pattern to work out which 6 notes to use
The scale starts on a note and ascends using a pattern of intervals between the notes
From the first to the second note is the interval of a semitone, like in a chromatic scale
From the second to the third is the interval of a tone, and so on
The complete pattern is, in this case, always Semitone – Tone – Semitone – Tone + semitone – Semitone,
or S T S T+S S

13. Example 1
Bars 1-2; the notes of the opening phrase in clarinets 1-3, bass clarinet and bassoons 1-3
The six notes of this chord are from this scale pattern

14. Example 2 Bar 8 beat 2; horns 1-6
The six notes of this chord are from this scale pattern

15. Example 3 Bar 37; beat 3, horns 1-6
The six notes of this chord are from this scale pattern
You’ll notice that it is the same as example 2 – the Db note 4 in ex3 is the same as the C# note 4 in ex2. Schoenberg uses the same
hexachord with a different enharmonic spelling – Db=C#, G#=Ab etc – in many occasions in this piece.

16. Example 4
Bar 65 (penultimate bar), beat 2, Horns 2-6, divided double basses
The six notes of this chord are from this scale pattern

17. Homework: Due Weds 15th January
Listen to “Peripetie” by Schoenberg and make notes in your yellow workbook structure grid.
Focus on texture & dynamics
Add any other details that you can identify
Mr Jose if you have any issues

18. Structure
In 5 sections
Broadly in Rondo form, though the returning A sections are hardly recognisable.
The A section shows a return to particular mood or orchestral sound rather than to a theme.

19. Section A Overview: Bars 1 - 18
Begins very loud!
Clarinets and flutes state 2 hexachords – Bar 1 = C#-D-E-F- G#-A in the clarinets and A-A#-B-C-E-G# in the flutes
Builds up to ff fanfare-like horn motif marked
Bassoon plays the clarinet hexachords from bar 1, the same as the horn motif from bar 8 but transposed up 4 semitones.
Lots of hexachords are used throughout the piece.
You are not expected to analyse all of these chords but you must be aware that they are used melodically and harmonically throughout and it is worth knowing a few examples.

20. Section A Overview: Bars 1 – 18 Tempo and rhythm
Marked Sehr Rasch – Very quick.
Crotchet = bpm
Mainly made up of short triplet and sextuplet bursts.
After the demisemiquaver hexachord burst, the tempo becomes slightly slower through the quiet horn passage.
This leads to an expressive rubato clarinet line from bar 10.

21. Section A Overview: Bars 1 – 18 Instrumentation and texture
Tutti orchestra is used for the opening before they get to rest for a while.
Brass dominates the texture until bar 8, where the woodwind takes over (low bassoons, bass clarinet ostinato and clarinet melody)
Instruments drop in and out in quick succession with dovetailing, homophonic bursts.
Loud hexachord texture thins out to solo clarinet line.

23. Section A Overview: Bars 1 – 18 Pitch and Melody
No sense of key – atonal and build on hexachords
Hear the full pitch range of all the instruments
Clarinet melody is expressive and gentle
Angular and dissonant, with leaps of a minor 9th and major 7th – intervals usually used to accentuate dissonance and create tension.

24. Section A Overview: Bars 1 – 18 Dynamics
Begins loudly
Crescendos to fff until dying away after bar5 to pp.
Trumpets and trombones play muted.
Mutes are used for sound quality, rather than to effect the dynamics, for which the mute was not originally designed.

25. Section B Overview: Bars 18-34 Tempo, Rhythm and Dynamics
Tempo returns to original marking.
Short note durations give the illusion that the tempo has increased more than it has.
Section begins quietly with an immediate crescendo
Dynamics vary between instruments
Haupstimme and Nebenstimme are always marked as f-fff.
Dramatic and frequent dynamic changes

26. Section B Overview: Bars 18-34 Instrumentation and texture
Full orchestra, but not all at once, except for climatic points i.e. Bars 30-34
Even here, strings leave to woodwind and percussion to provide much of the power.
Soft line written for violins and cello, which is almost inaudible but adds to the texture and timbre.
Texture = Very polyphonic and complex

27. Section B Overview: Bars 18-34 Pitch and melody
Haupstimme snakes through most of the orchestra
In it bounces from one brass instrument to the next, demonstrating the klangfarbenmelodie idea.
The Nebenstimme appears in this section, for its only appearance in the whole piece.
Bar28(2) to Bar 31(1) = Trumpet 1
Bar29 = flutes, piccolo and clarinet

28. Section A’: Bars 35-43
Marked by the string section rising from nothing
Followed by a flourish in the horns then a return to the hexachord from bar 8.
Several instruments briefly disturb the horn chord
Section is a brief rest from the turmoil of section B
A menacing mood, rather than tranquil, giving the impression of more fireworks to come.

29. Section C Overview: Bars 44-58
Bassoon take over the Haupstimme but immediately pass it on to the solo cello.
Tempo = alternates between Ruhiger (calmer) and Heftig (passionate)
Texture is much more sparse, focus is on overlapping instruments – Delicate us of the orchestra until the fff in bar53
Dynamics range from pp (bar 44/45) to fff (bar 53-55), with individual instruments rising above others with individual crescendos.
Bassoon - Cello

30. Section A’’ Overview: Bars 59-66 Pitch, Melody and Dynamics.
Material from the opening used and developed in this section.
No voice is marked more important than the others
Bar 64 chord (see previous slide) is a giant hexachord in all of the orchestra except Cor Anglais and Double Basses.
Basses play an unrelated tremolo chord (very high). This sustains after the rest of the orchestra has finished to conclude the piece.
Bar 50 = pp to Bar 64 = ff, immediately dying away to nothing but tremolo basses and pp horns.