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Joseph Maurice Ravel Bolero

Ravel's Bolero features a steady tempo throughout, with the rhythm carried by low horns and drums repeating a 1-2-3 pattern. It builds from a soft dynamic to a very loud one through constant crescendo. Different instruments bring in repeating melodic themes. Dissonant harmonies and cadences create anxiety and desire for resolution. Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire is an atonal song cycle scored for voice and small chamber group. It explores new timbres and features irregular rhythms and groupings. Number 18 has a fugue with strict canons while number 21 uses gentle thirds and triads. Klangfarbenmelodie and complex counterpoint textures are prominent.

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Joseph Maurice Ravel Bolero

Ravel's Bolero features a steady tempo throughout, with the rhythm carried by low horns and drums repeating a 1-2-3 pattern. It builds from a soft dynamic to a very loud one through constant crescendo. Different instruments bring in repeating melodic themes. Dissonant harmonies and cadences create anxiety and desire for resolution. Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire is an atonal song cycle scored for voice and small chamber group. It explores new timbres and features irregular rhythms and groupings. Number 18 has a fugue with strict canons while number 21 uses gentle thirds and triads. Klangfarbenmelodie and complex counterpoint textures are prominent.

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Joseph Maurice Ravel

Bolero

Rhythm- Temporal relationship of sounds

Sounds like it is in ¾, to provide a sort of waltz-y environment. The emphasis is on the first of
every three notes, being carried by the low horns/drums repeating the 1-2-3 sound.

Harmony- Sounding tones simultaneously. Chords are produced from multiple notes being
played in a key specifically placed. Cadences are successions of chords in order to create an
atmosphere, using chords in a specific order to produce an effect.

For example, a song ending in the starting key’s first chord, (C chord in the key of C)

Provides many harmonically dissonant effects. A lot of cadences that leave you wanting to hear
a resolve. (when the horns go high and stay there)

Dynamics- Loudness or softness

Song goes from very soft to very loud (pianissimo to fortissimo). Constant crescendo

Melody- A group of notes played in succession to form a recognizable tune.

Carried in this song by multiple different instruments, repeated in two themes

Tempo- How fast a song is

This song keeps a steady tempo, not changing throughout. Tempo di Bolero, moderato assai
("tempo of a bolero, very moderate")

Feelings

• Emotion relates to the strong sensations felt as related to specific stimulus

• Passions are emotions elevated to a great sense (not necessarily related to love)

• Moods sometimes arise from no apparent stimulus as when we feel sad for no reason at all

Emotional parts of Bolero are when the music starts really picking up, and every time different
instruments are brought in.
Passions are when weird cadences and dissonance leave the listener anxious or wanting
resolution.

Moods arise around the end when the horns are going crazy. It’s an anxious mood.

Arnold Schoenberg

Genre: Song Cycle

Unifying Features: sprechstimme against fast, dissonant accompaniment and


klangfarbenmelodie

no. 21- memories of old times, looking out serenely on a world bathed in sunlight

no. 18- pierrot is disturbed by a white spot - a patch of moonlight - on the collar of his jet black
jacket. He rubs and and rubs but can’t get rid of it.

no. 18 - three voice fugue, strict canons in diminution and retrograde

no. 21- gentle thirds and consonant triads

whole work: rondeau (fifteenth century verse form where the opening lines are in the middle
and at the end of the poem as well.

Melody: Klangfarbenmelodie (tone color melody)

Harmony: no.18- dissonant and chromatic

no.21- thirds and hints of traditional sounds, atonal

Tonality: atonal

Rhythm: irregular groupings and polyrhythms

Timbre: exploration of new timbres, creates a unique sound by setting the cycle for the
accompaniment of a chamber group of eight instruments played by five performers. Each of the
twenty one songs has a unique combination of instruments supporting the voice

Texture: complex contrapuntal texture with canonic treatment

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