Stravinsky Rite Of Spring Analysis
Analyzing A Piece – The Rite of Spring
Melody – The composition is very complex, it uses many different instruments at many different pitches, large leaps, most likely very difficult to play like a lot of Stravinsky’s work. The music has small repetitive parts but continuously moves on to new parts which are all different from the last. The music starts off in a very peaceful melody than develops into an angry sounding melody than drops back down to peaceful and then changes into angry again.
Harmony – Different sections of the piece are either major or minor, and it has very complex timbres showing many different tones so it sounds very unique and distinct, there is no voices throughout the entire piece, each section of the composition flows into the next with harmony and there is very little time where no music is being played at all. …show more content…
Just as the music gets faster it will stop and start over slow and work its way back up to fast again.
Instrumentation – This composition is written for a large orchestra, Stravinsky used each instrument tried to work each to its highest and lowest notes. The composition called for:
Woodwinds: Piccolo, 4 flutes, 4 oboes, 5 clarinets, English horn, 5 bassoons
Brass: 8 horns, 5 trumpets, 3 trombones, 2 tubas
Percussion: timpani, bass drum, cymbals, tam-tam, crotales, triangle, tambourine, güiro
Strings: 30 violins, 12 violas, 10 violoncellos, 8 double basses
All the instruments notes work together to make one armonic sound each sound is different from the next which is why this piece is very unique and
Melody – The composition is very complex, it uses many different instruments at many different pitches, large leaps, most likely very difficult to play like a lot of Stravinsky’s work. The music has small repetitive parts but continuously moves on to new parts which are all different from the last. The music starts off in a very peaceful melody than develops into an angry sounding melody than drops back down to peaceful and then changes into angry again.
Harmony – Different sections of the piece are either major or minor, and it has very complex timbres showing many different tones so it sounds very unique and distinct, there is no voices throughout the entire piece, each section of the composition flows into the next with harmony and there is very little time where no music is being played at all. …show more content…
Just as the music gets faster it will stop and start over slow and work its way back up to fast again.
Instrumentation – This composition is written for a large orchestra, Stravinsky used each instrument tried to work each to its highest and lowest notes. The composition called for:
Woodwinds: Piccolo, 4 flutes, 4 oboes, 5 clarinets, English horn, 5 bassoons
Brass: 8 horns, 5 trumpets, 3 trombones, 2 tubas
Percussion: timpani, bass drum, cymbals, tam-tam, crotales, triangle, tambourine, güiro
Strings: 30 violins, 12 violas, 10 violoncellos, 8 double basses
All the instruments notes work together to make one armonic sound each sound is different from the next which is why this piece is very unique and