Webern - Quartet Op22 1st Movement Grouped

    Cards (4)

    • Structure
      Loosely based on sonata form
      Exposition and development use the same form of the row presented differently
      Development explores other row forms
      Coda uses retrograde
      Repeats and slight rits help mark the changes from one section to another
    • Harmony
      Chromatic due to use of the 12-tone technique
      Dissonant
      Use of sevenths, seconds and tritones
      Sparse writing with mostly only one or two notes played together with some three note chords and very occasionally four notes
      Row eliminates traditional harmony as no one note is more important than another
      Lack of harmony means there is no sense of key or tonic
    • Melody
      Chromatic
      Use of the 12-tone row
      No diatonic patterns
      Very disjunct
      Highly fragmented melody
      Klanfarbenmelodie (Splitting the melody between instruments)
      Highly repetitive due to its serial construction, however these repeats are not obvious to the listener
    • Texture
      Polyphonic
      Piano treated as separate lines
      Extensive use of imitation
      Mirror Cannons - a staggard repetition of a prime form of the row with its inverse
      Pointillism - sparse texture made up of fragments that only overlap by one or two notes
      Klangfarbenmelodie