MUAR 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Anton Webern, Second Viennese School, Heinrich Isaac
20 Feb 2018
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1922), but like his friend and fellow student, alban. Alban berg, webern created his own individual style within these new compositional idioms: also an active, international conductor, but like. Pizzicato plucking the strings of a bowed string instrument (and old practice not at all new in the 20th century) Harmonics (string harmonics) very high and delicate pitches that are created by lightly placing (just touching, not completely depressing) one"s fingers at specific points on a string of an instrument. This technique causes the string to sound two octaves higher than normal. Col legno turning the bow over and playing the strings with the wood of the bow instead of the horsehair. This causes a very strange, rather ethereal, and unstable sound quality. Webern, five movements for string quartet (1908) https://youtu. be/0dl9rbcrlvo https://youtu. be/elakf8zxdmg: like his teacher, schoenberg, after 1922 webern began to compose using the twelve-tone or serial.
