Klangfarbenmelodie
Sign in to savealt=Detail from "Farben", 3rd movement of Arnold Schoenberg's Fünf Orchesterstücke Op. 16 (1909).|thumb|Detail from "Farben", 3rd movement of Arnold Schoenberg's Fünf Orchesterstücke Op. 16 (1909). Klangfarbenmelodie (German for "sound-color melody") is a musical concept that treats timbre as a melodic element. Arnold Schoenberg originated the idea. It has become synonymous with the technique of fragmenting a melodic line between different timbres.
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6 sectionsContents
- Origins
- Melodic Version
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
alt=Detail from "Farben", 3rd movement of Arnold Schoenberg's Fünf Orchesterstücke Op. 16 (1909).|thumb|Detail from "Farben", 3rd movement of Arnold Schoenberg's Fünf Orchesterstücke Op. 16 (1909). Klangfarbenmelodie (German for "sound-color melody") is a musical concept that treats timbre as a melodic element. Arnold Schoenberg originated the idea. It has become synonymous with the technique of fragmenting a melodic line between different timbres.
==Origins== Late in the 19th century, a sophisticated treatment of musical timbre started to emerge in works like Claude Debussy's ''Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune. During the same period, Hermann von Helmholtz theorized that timbre is part of what enables a listener to perceive melody.
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