Schoenberg Listening Journal (Gavotte)

Musical Elements:

Atonality (throughout)
Dotting (0:10)
Varying rhythmic beats, ranging from 16th notes to quarter notes (throughout)
Hemiola (0:32)
Stacking of atonal harmonies using broken chords (1:05)
Instrumentation: Solo piano
Texture: Seemingly polyphonic
Meter: Duple simple

Structure:

Difficult to discern from timecode, but most likely a twelve-tone composition (using rows)
Brief moments of tonality dispersed throughout (1:27 - 1:34, 1:42 - 1:44, 1:58 - 2:01)
Mostly atonal, no clear main theme

Context:

Composer: Schoenberg
Intended social function: Gavotte (French folk dance)
True social function: To demonstrate the integration of tonal and atonal elements
Era: Modernism
Genre: Twelve-tone