tchaikovsky expo

Strife 1

• - Bminor
• - homo
• - syncopation, repeated notes, dotted rhythms
• - ascending and descending scales
• - semitone/turning motif
• - dialogue between strings and woodwind

Altered strife

• - strife in cannon, lower strings imitated by upper w.wind
• - Dminor
• - poly
• - violins play semiquaver motif
• - dialogue between strings and w.wind
• - rushing rising scales on strings with stabbing off-beat chords

Strife 3

• - louder dynamics
• -added brass and percussion
• - richer texture
• -ascending descending scales
• - turning motif
• - strife back for two bars

transition

• - dialogue between w.wind and clarinet
• - sequences in clarinet and flute
• - bassoon playing melody

Love theme 1

• part 1
• - Dflat maj
• - cor anglais and muted viola
• - pizz string accomp
• - homo
• -rising harp arpeggio
• part 2
• - homo
• - con sordini divided strings
• - developed through sequences, rises sequenchely
• - wide leaps
• - viola plays rep D

Love theme 2

• - introduced by rising chromatic scale on flute and oboe
• - polyphonic
• - flute and oboe
• - accomp by pizz strings, broken chord accomp by strings
• - swaying counter melody on cor anglais
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Love theme 3

• - flute, oboe, and clarinet
• - poly
• - broken chord accomp

Codetta

• - descending harp chords
• - bassoons in dialogue with violins and violas
• - chromatic notes in strings
• - dialogue between bassoons and cor A
• - sustained notes