VPMB82H3 Lecture : VPMB82 Lecture 5
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Vpmb82 music in the modern & contemporary lecture 5. Conscious avoidance of tonality: expressionism, really influential movement. Sprechtstimme: speech voice, screaming at time, eerie, almost recitative. Classical element: use of canon & fugal technique. Rushing 16th note in descending scale depicts decapitation. P. 55 series of augmented chord depicts knee knocking together. Equality, all tone is created equally, parallel to communism. 48 possibilities using all three methods, including retrograde, inversion, retrograde inversion. Can repeat notes, but cannot bring it back once it is stated. Blood imagery, religious symbol, end of the world. Use of leitmotive we the people , development of society oppressed people. H with arrow on music score means haupstimme (main theme) Klangfarbenmelody, different instrumental timbre, different than strauss" approach. Serialism: 12 tone pitch, extend it to other parameters. Break up of tone & distributed in different instruments. Take melodic idea & break it up to basic tone & different instruments.
