Klangfarbenmelodie (Ger., ‘sound-colour melody’).
A term introduced by Schoenberg in 1911 for a ‘melody’ of timbre, in which the instrumentation of a piece is as important as the pitch and rhythm and has its own structural function. Schoenberg himself attempted this in the central movement of his Five Orchestral Pieces (... ...
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