American Fanfare Concert Analysis

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To start with, American Fanfare was created in the year 2006 and was embraced by a Lieutenant Colonel is a wonderful experiences. It was created by the conductor Jim Stephenson, with the rest of the performers, and they should give themselves a pat on the back for creating a new aura around the concert with such an amazing melody in so many ranges of ascending. Yet, the music was able to lead in the making of rhythms to be in a constant motion between adagio, andante, and allegro. Making the audience feel as if they are on the edge of their seats and feeling the homophonic texture. It adds dynamic qualities to the music by having the brass instrument and the woodwind instrument playing the same piece over and over one another as if challenging …show more content…

The song has an intriguing melody that makes me think of London in Europe, maybe it is just because I watched a movie that takes the setting of London or maybe it was the beat of the percussion and the brass, maybe more other instruments, but it created a nice light and deep feeling within the sound. The opening of the song was greatly influential releasing a great amount of energy to the audience. In the middle of the song, it was going down, but then the energy returned and renewed, propelling the overture to the finish. At the same time, it creates an opening for some kind of curtains onstage to drop down dramatically. Having the string and woodwind to act as the cushion of the song being dark and downhill while the brass and the percussion act as a representation of the beating heart of all living things. In the beginning of the song, it was in allegro but throughout the song, it goes downward with the beat being downbeat but once it hit adagio the song become more upbeat and the tempo become vivace. With the brass, woodwind playing vivace and the percussion breaking up the parts each second. Until near the ending, all instruments hit their big parts that would come as a dramatic timing. This song was a classic and I believe it was in many comedy animations back in the good old …show more content…

Just from the title the melody of the song was very luring almost toxic enough to put me into a deep sleep, but at the same time sending a slight chill down my spine. In the beginning of the song, it was inviting with the beating of the percussion instruments though from where I was sitting it looks like there is two groups taking side of the percussion players fighting it out. Once the string instrument enter into the fray the song becomes a polyphonic texture with an allegro and moderato melody. It was very balanced and almost has a theme of many Egyptian theme music. The percussion instrument takes the lead in this song with the backing of the string building up the big finale of the song. However, in the beginning to the half of the middle it was playing it a smooth moderato pace having a quadruple meter beat. The rhythm is specular because it recoursed from the percussion instrumentalist from beginning to near the end. Creating a nice dramatic expressive quality into the song. In the second half of the song, it alternated between upbeat and downbeat creating an atmosphere of a battle between two opposing forces. The song ended in a big bang sending every single person wide-awake and almost I felt a slight adrenaline before I

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