Extract: Figure 10 to the end of Figure 11
Tone Colour
Exploration of Colours
Types of Instruments
Small woodwind section
of 3 flutes, 2 oboes and
2 clarinets. The french
horn shares similar tone
colour to woodwind
instruments, thus is
scored together
small String section with
two harps
Exploration of high
register of strings, and
lower-mid range of the
mellow flute
Pitch
tonality
C# minor, but chromatic
thus ambiguous
tonicisation in 103 further
clouds the key
ambiguous
accentuated Tritone
interval returns
Duration-
Combination/ Subjective
exploration of colour
Explores the same avoidance of excessively
theme under new bright tone colours. lack
instrumentation. This of brass
time the original tritone
theme is presented with
more flutes and is later
joined by oboe/clarinet.
The other instruments,
who play the harmony,
play continuous tremolo
yet again show how the
theme has been
presented in another
different way.
Viola joins in at bar 100,
playing the tritone theme
under new colour
Another theme, played
by the strings passes the
melody to whole new
instrumental section
melody harmony
wave-like contour for the cluster chords
tritone theme, relatively
flat contour for the string
theme
As the melody is passed
from flute to violin 1, the
range also increases
with the introduction of
violins. The lowest
melodically used note in
the flute part is G
natural, while Violins
reach high F#
high register for strings.
Middle-low for flutes
Unclear beat
rhythm meter/phrasing tempo

Unclear beat ties/syncopation simple to compound rubato

contrasting rhythmic meter, changes from 4-4
units - triplets and to 9-8, thus veiling the
quavers cross rhythm. beat.

motific development, not irregular/unbalanced relatively slow, similar to

augments the original phrases, just ambiguous that of the opening
theme beat section
crosses both themes fairly consistent, with use
together. of rubato.

repeated tremolo
ostinato