Webern Quartet- Texture

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How many instruments are there and why have they been chosen?

4 instruments, a violin, clarinet, tenor sax and piano, chosen for their distinctive contrasting sonorities, creating clarity in 5 part polyphony.

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Describe the overall texture

Very sparse with rests preventing more than 3 parts simultaneously playing, often resulting in brief monophony

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How is texture fuller in the piano part?

verticalisation meaning more than one note can be played at once

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Describe the use of the mirror canon.

used in the introduction using P10 and I0 and then used in retrograde during the coda.

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What is the name of the key technique used where tone rows are passed between instruments to create instrumental colour.

Klangfarbenmelodie

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How might Klangfarbenmelodie be described?

Pointillism, due to the passing of instrumental colour in points across parts