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    Arnold Schoenberg

    Arnold Schoenberg’s pieces were extremely innovative and influential during


    the 20th century and created expressionist music in the 20th century. The
    expressionism in music heavily revolved around certain elements such as
    atonality and dissonance which Arnold Schoenberg fully utilised. Tonality is the
    system of keys and key relations and it took centuries in the western system to
    develop and define. The key to tonality is to have the same home key for the
    starting chord and the finishing chord and is theorised as an important element
    of “pleasant” sounds. Schoenberg intentionally completely disregards tonality
    in his music pieces to create impact. One of his famous expressionist pieces is
    Peripetie.

    The melody of Peripetie is disjunct and effectively uses all twelve pitches. The
    rhythm is complex and irregular with regular cross-rhythms. the dynamic range
    of the piece is wide and spans ppp-fff. The texture is constantly changing
    throughout the piece. While the piece is largely contrapuntal, there are also
    homophonic and monophonic sections. The piece holds a high level of
    dissonance, this is explained by François-Joseph Fétis who theorises tonality is
    the key to the pleasantness of a melody. The piece is also extremely chromatic
    which means it does not fit into a particular scale or mode as it is not
    composed upon a seven-note diatonic scale. the irregular rhythms and
    contrasting textures help the piece to be labelled with angular melody.
    Likewise to Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg uses a wide range of pitches and
    leans towards the extreme pitches of different instruments.

    This new and innovative style of music led to the path of expressionism in
    music where him and his students explore and play with the different elements
    of music.

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