Berg: Wozzeck; Schoenberg: Erwartung, Op.17
Berg: Wozzeck, Scene 1
Individual themes are essential to the structure of Wozzeck. In the first scene, the Captain belittles Wozzeck, who is shaving him. The orchestra plays themes that will return over and over, but the rhythm of Wozzeck's "Jawhol, herr Hauptman" ("Yes sir, Captain") which ends this scene is one of the most important ones.
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Berg: Wozzeck, Scene 4
Berg used a multitude of musical devices to tell this dark story, and each scene has its own individual form. In this scene, Wozzeck is being manipulated by the Doctor, who wants to observe Wozzeck's increasing madness in order to further his career. Berg sets this scene as a passacaglia, an old form that suggests the pedantic rigidity of the Doctor.
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Schoenberg: Erwartung, Op.17
In this example you can hear Schoenberg's expressionist style. Erwartung tells a psychological tale of a woman poised between fear and desire, and Schoenberg translates those strong emotions into turbulent music.
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