VPMA99H3 Lecture 9: Lecture 9
Document Summary
Innovation in rhythm and meter: accent non-periodic progression. Insert series of accent on weak beat (syncopation) Occur when there is more than 1 meter. Polymeter in the sacrificial dance in the rite of spring: multiple ostinato figures. Layer several ostinato on top of each other. Bits of melody and combine them as mosaic. Melody that is made up of tiny chunks. New way of organizing pitches and their relationships. All 12 pitch-classes placed in an ordered row. Row may be then transformed in several ways: transposition, inversion, retrograde www. notesolution. com. Marie is his girlfriend and she has an illegitimate child with wozzeck. Marie cheats on him so wozzeck murders her. When he tries to find the knife, he drowns himself. Three acts, 5 scenes are linked by orchestral interlude. Act iii scene 3 invention of a rhythm. Entire scene is built on a short rhythmic segment. Recur constantly throughout the scene in diminution, augmentation.
