Stravinsky Wider Listening

• Sonority:Colourful orchestration and great exploitation of instruments (+ Interest in the east)


  Korsakov - Scheherezade
• Sonority:Combines western art music and eastern folk music.


  Bartok - concerto for orchestra
• Sonority:Controversial: postmodern work combined avant-garde techniques with primitivism


  Wojciech kilar - kzesany
• Melody:(In) Second main theme of the first movement resembles a folk melody with its narrow range and distinctive rhythm


  Bartok - concerto for orchestra
• Melody:Drew upon folk music

  Rimsky-Korsakov - Antar
• Melody:Use of melodic fragments instead of clear melody


  Stravinsky - Firebird
• Harmony + Tonality:Departs from traditional tonality - modes and synthetic scales

  Bartok - concerto for orchestra
• Harmony + Tonality:Chromatic + dissonant harmony // Atonality


  Schoenberg - Pierrot Lunaire
• Harmony + Tonality:Major tonality of folk melody juxtaposed with largely dissonant and atonal structures produced by the rest of the orchestra


  Wojciech Kilar - krzesany
• Harmony + Tonality:Polytonality + bitonality

  Stravinsky - Petruska
• Rhythm, Metre + Tempo:Complex rhythms and ambiguous pulse

  Schoenburg - op.23
• Rhythm, Metre + Tempo:off-beat chords

  Bartok - sonatina
• Rhythm, Metre + Tempo:Constant change in rhythmic metre and constant bassoon syncopation - metric uncertainty

  Stravinsky - The flood
• Rhythm, Metre + Tempo:Cross rhythms

  Schoenberg - Pierrot Lunaire
• Texture:Starts of thin texture and texture builds in layers


  Stravinsky - Firebird
• Texture:Written in block form

  Stravinsky - Petruska
• Texture:Use of monophonic passages to emphasise particular lines

  Korsakov - Russian easter overture