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" The Cellar" - Coggle Diagram
" The Cellar"
Rhythm, tempo metre
2/4
Allegro molto
moto perpetuo stream of continuous
quavers in order to build up the tension
Rests are inserted into the third and fourth ideas
much longer note values in the concluding bars
Sonority
tremolandi
Begins with D octave doubled trills in all instruments
Bars 5–46 tremolando passages moving in quavers
ten divisi parts
sul ponticello
arco normale and senza tremolando
Melody
Herrmann creates melodic material for his Fugal texture
eight-bar ‘subject’ which rises sequentially
bars 4 and 5 seem related in
terms of melodic inversions and possibly retrogrades
Countersubject 1 – chromatic scale patterns and moving downwards in sequence
Countersubject 2 – with crotchet rests separating the notes of the idea
Further development of the subject, this time using three notes to a bar
Harmony
non-functional harmony
chromatic, dissonant or atonal
Texture
Fugal (contrapuntal) textures in up to four parts
Structure
played as Marion descends the cellar stairs
Builds up a fugal texture from eight-bar units
Four (related) contrapuntal ideas eventually combine
Bars 5–12‘subject’cellos/basses
Bars13–20‘subject’violas–countersubject1cellos/basses
Bars 21–28 ‘subject’ violin 2
Bar 28 violin 1 ‘subject’
Bar29 CS1 violin2; CS2 violas;
Bar 32 CS3 cellos/basses
Bar 40 CS4 violas
Bar 45 CS1 gradually becomes downward chromatic scales
Bar 47 ‘subject’ shared among all instruments
Bar 68 final chord builds up