Schoenberg: Peripetie from Five Orchestral Pieces

VOCABULARY LIST
Atonal no key.
Crescendo a gradual increase in dynamics.
Chromatic involving the use of semitones (like the second subject).
Compliment the 6 pitches not used in the hexachord.
Cross-rhythms rhythms that go against the usual pattern of beats (like triplets).
Diminuendo a gradual decrease in dynamics.
Dissonance clashing notes.
Dynamics volume.
Expressionism a twentieth-century movement in music in which composers
reacted against the past; they tried to make audiences experience intense emotions
and have strong reactions to their music.
Fragmented melody very short melodic lines that seem unrelated to one another.
Hauptstimme principle voice: the main melodic line.
Hexachord a group of 6 pitches which are used as motifs, chords etc.
Klangfarbenmelodie tone colour melody: the idea that the sound of an
instrument is as important to a melody as rhythm and pitch.
Motif a short melodic idea.
Nebenstimme secondary voice: the next most important part, after the principle
voice.
Octave an interval of 8 notes. Two notes an octave apart have the same name, e.g.
C to C. (The first subject is played in octaves between the first and second violins).
Polyphonic a musical texture featuring numerous independent parts.
Timbre the sound of an instrument or voice.