Stravinsky

Stravinsky

FireBird

• A more classic ballet and was written just before 'The Rite Of Spring'

Petrushka

• Another ballet written by Stravinsky, uses parallel chords and also bitonality with arpeggios

'L'Histoire Du Soldat'

• Uses 5 keys in the space of 4 seconds of music, lots of metre changes are also used within this piece

Ravel

Bolero

• Uses a repeated arpeggio within the snare drum, ostinatos, the melody plays in 3 keys at once- polytonality (trumpets and celesta, flutes and also horns in different keys at the same time)

Tchaikovsky

The Nutcracker

• A typical ballet based, from the same time period, that audiences were much more used to

Swan Lake

• Incorporates a typical ballet style, audiences were used to this

Symphony No.2- Little Russian

• This incorporates a use of Russian folk song ideas throughout the piece

Prokofiev-

'Romeo And Juliet Suite”

• This incorporates viola glissando harmonics and also pizzicato

Schoenberg-

'Peripetie'

• This incorporates the contrasting of textures and also it incorporates a highly extended orchestra

Rimsky-Korsakov,

Mussorgsky