Five Pieces for Orchestra (Fünf Orchesterstücke, Op. 16, 1909) by Arnold Schoenberg includes: Arnold Schoenberg, Los Angeles, 1948 For the American music critic and journalist, see Harold Charles Schonberg. ...

1. "Premonitions" (Sehr rasch)
2. "The Past" (Mässige Viertel)
3. "Summer Morning by a Lake: Chord-Colors"
4. "Peripetia" (Sehr rasch)
5. "Endless Recitative" (Bewegte Achtel)

The titles where added relucantly by the composer after their completion upon the request of his publisher.

"Summer Morning by a Lake"

According to Robert Erickson (1975, p.37), "harmonic and melodic motion is curtailed, in order to focus attention on timbral and textural elements." According to AMG ([1]) it is a motiveless piece generated from a single harmony: C-G sharp-B-E-A treated to klangfarbenmelodie and chromatic alteration. Schoenberg explains in a note added to the 1949 revision of the score, "The conductor need not try to polish sounds which seem unbalanced, but watch that every instrumentalist plays accurately the prescribed dynamic, according to the nature of his instrument. There are no motives in this piece which have to be brought to the fore" (Erickson 1975, p.37). Robert Erickson (March 7, 1917 in Marquette, Michigan–April 24, 1997 in San Diego, California) was a composer. ... Harmony is the use and study of pitch simultaneity and chords, actual or implied, in music. ... Look up Melody in Wiktionary, the free dictionary In music, a melody is a series of linear events or a succession, not a simultaneity as in a chord. ... In music, timbre is determined by its spectrum, which is a specific mix of keynote, overtones, noise, tune behaviour, and envelope, as well as the temporal change of the spectrum and the amplitude. ... In music, the word texture is often used in a rather vague way in reference to the overall sound of a piece of music. ... In music, a motif is a perceivable or salient reoccurring fragment or succession of notes that may used to construct the entirety or parts of complete melodies, themes. ... Klangfarbenmelodie (German for sound-color-melody) is a musical technique that involves breaking up a musical line or melody out from one instrument to between several instruments. ...