Transcript SCHOENBERG PERIPETIE Area of Study 2

SCHOENBERG
PERIPETIE
Area of Study 2
How to answer
the essay
question
Think about who SCHOENBERG is
Listen to the piece !
Now think about the actual
question
Comment on how SCHOENBERG
uses the following musical
elements in PERIPETIE
 Tonality & Harmony
 Instruments & texture
 Melody
 Dynamics & Tempo
 Structure
(10)
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Remember to use correct MUSICAL VOCABULARY
So your essay is worth 10 marks !
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DON’T write 8 pages of A4 – this is too
much and extra pages will not get you
more marks
READ the question carefully- what do you
have to comment on?
Refer to your notes and the information
you have on PERIPETIE
But most of all…
STRUCTURE your essay
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Start with an introductory paragraph e.g.
Schoenberg’s PERIPETIE was
composed in the early twentieth
century and is expressionist in style.
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Schoenberg composed PERIPETIE
in 1909 and it is typical of
expressionist style
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MAXIMISE YOUR MARK !
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Structure your essay
Use appropriate musical language e.g.
HEXACHORD ATONAL EXPRESSIONIST
Only give relevant information – don’t just
write all you know about the work
Spelling, punctuation, grammar errors all
count in the mark scheme !
Use Paragraphs
HANDWRITE this – you have to in the
exam
NEXT write about what you are
asked to !
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TONALITY & HARMONY
INSTRUMENTS & TEXTURE
MELODY
DYNAMICS & TEMPO
STRUCTURE
Try to give at least 2 relevant facts about
each category- have a short paragraph for
each
Finally have a final paragraph
which sums up
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E.g.Schoenberg’s PERIPETIE is a
complex piece of music and
sounds initially disorganised and
random. However as discussed
above it is tightly organised and
shows many features of early 20th
If you take note of all this you can
get a really good mark pretty easily