The concert that I went for the assignment was one of Music Monday performance. The event took place at Advent Lutheran Church located on 2505 Broadway at 93th street. The date of the event was on October 23, 2017 (Monday) at 7:30 pm and lasted two hours until 9:30 pm. The group that played was a string quartet called Shanghai Quartet. The members of the Shanghai Quartet were Honggang Li (violist), Nicholas Tzavaras (cellist), Weigang Li (violinist) and Yi-wen Jiang (violinist). The Shanghai Quartet is one of the world’s foremost chamber ensembles that have meld Eastern music allowing it to cross with other musical genres including traditional Chinese folk music, Western music and contemporary works. The three pieces that they played that night …show more content…
1 in E Minor. The piece has four movements. The four movements are adagio-allegro appassionato, adagio molto, allegretto-grazioso- animato, and allegro agitato-allegro moderato-adagio molto. The form of the piece may have been in ternary form because I remember hearing the A-B-A form. The wide pitch range of the violin, viola and cello created a timbre that was mostly bright and lively. The tempo of the piece was fast (allegro). However, the tempo of the piece around the third movement was presto. Throughout the piece, there was sharp rise in the pitch range. There were also a lot of trills that created sounds that were similar to birds. The texture of the piece was polyphonic. The viol created a contrasting sound that was different and was distinguishing among the other string instruments. The quartet had a different bow technique and fast hand movements. There was also terraced dynamics that created a contrast in the volume of the piece. At the fourth movement, the tempo also started to slow down compared to other movements. At the end of the piece, the violin movements stopped and the cello took the final notes making the composition end with a tuneful and a sweet-sounding
For my first concert report, I have decided to attend the Applied Music Student Recital. The musical performance was at Palomar College on February 27, 2015 from 1:00P.M.--2:00P.M. at the performance lab room D-10. The type of music that was presented at the concert was a brass ensemble, chamber music, classical, contemporary, jazz, opera, percussion, and many vocal arrangements. There was a total of eight musical Palomar College student performers who are majoring in music theory. I am only going to focus on a few of the musical pieces that I enjoyed most. The majority of the performers were dressed in formal attire. As the men were dressed in a dress shirt, a tie or bow tie of their choice, black slacks, and dress shoes. As for the women, they wore dresses, skirts and dress shoes. Also there was a pianist, accompanist who is a Palomar College music teacher named Ruth Weber. The performance was in a music concert hall with roughly fifty audience members.
The first movement is allegro (Schwartz, 2015). Began to explode in the timpani, introduced the main elements relating to the material. The tone color of began part is deep. After introduction, is a piano solo part, describes the whole movement found another melody. From here, contrasting grand and exquisite part of the music alternates. It will reach the climax Grandioso, where the band sounded original piano melody, accompanied by large triplet figure in the soloist. There is a fast triple ostinatos a cadenza which leads to the last one: speeding octaves and chords, eventually forming a triple F major chord ostinato 6 keyboard along a big run, so that the movement draws to a close.
14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2 by Ludwig van Beethoven. This piece sets a down mood that isn’t as bright as the other pieces Nel played due to its minor key. However, the sound of this piece is really intense and emotional. This piece has a very smooth melody and demonstrates syncopation. Also, the dynamics of this piece are low. As discussed throughout class, this piece has sonata-allegro form. This means that it has an exposition, development, and recapitulation. The first movement is slow since it is adagio sostenuto, the second movement is brisk since it is allegretto, and the third is quick since it is presto agitato. Beethoven uses a continuous soft dynamic and a smooth wave-like rhythmic pattern. The texture of this piece can be described as mixed between homophonic and polyphonic. Lastly, this piece required Nel to constantly use the fortepiano levers to create the piece’s distinct
The first movement is in sonata form - Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso. Strings and horns appear from the distance as if they had already been playing out of earshot. The music gradually intensifies in volume until the final explosion into the first subject. Then this whole process is repeated. The first movement shows a contrast of emotion that seems to return in the recapitulation before moving firmly into the minor in the coda, with the movement ending with an emphatic statement based on the first subject.
On Friday, November 15, 2013, I attended a concert that I found very interesting. It took place at 7:30 pm at the First Presbyterian Church of the Covenant. The group performing was the Erie Chamber Orchestra, but as a special the Slippery Rock University Concert Choir was also there. During the performance I attended, two pieces were performed. The first was a Mozart piece by the name of Symphony No. 41.
...ers and the audience. The dramatic nature of this piece alone is something to be reckoned with as it is extremely passionate. The symphony is presented in 4 movements as is common and begins with a Poco Sostenuto- Vivace, followed by a Allegretto movement, Presto movement, and finally ends on an Allegro con brio movement. the central theme of this piece is introduced in the first movement by a flute playing in tripple meter continuously ascending up the scales rising in dynamic contrast, continuing to grow into a louder and more stark contrast between it’s highs and lows. Consistently dance like, the piece is celebratory of its roots buried in historical Austrian music that has been present in the culture for years. The accomplishments of the soldiers for which the piece was composed for are easily told of simply by the energy and power present throughout the piece.
In the first part of this recital the vivaldi, contained a string Quartet. After the first intermission, I looked down at the podium and noticed that the precussions were added which included the timpani, bass drum, tylophone, and cymbals. In this recital Nancy Menk was the conductor, Judith Von Houser was the soprano which played a high note, and Mary Nessinger was the Mezzo-soprano which played a slight softer note. This part of the concert was divided into four pieces. First there was the Magnificant by M. Haydn (the orchestra accompaniment was edited from the composer's manuscript by Mark Nabholz). This piece consisted of strings without violas, two french horns, and an organ.
This is the second movement of the piece. It lasts around five minutes of the total 22 minutes of the whole Orchestral Suite. Air is written for trumpet, timpani, oboe, violin, viola and continuo. It is written in major key. The meter is duple, and I would dare to say that it is quadruple.
...re was very interesting transitions between the variation, for example, string section plays the variation from low to high, when they reach the highest note, the brass family takes over and continue with the scale and make it more higher. Tremolo style was used in this piece, which is a quick ups and downs stroke mode. The music were very soothing and attracted the audience. Lastly, they end the piece with the same variations that was played at the beginning.
This movement was also in complete sonata form, like the first, but started out with a fugue, containing timpani solos and then later concluded with an abrupt
The piece opens with an allegro, minor melody with cymbal crashes and timpani rolls. There is a short pause then a major trill. Harp glissandos then accompany a legato oboe melody, which is repeated with a pizzicato string bass. The melody is then repeated by the whole orchestra. There is a crescendo with the tim...
..., intensity, and length. The entire movement had a feeling of rising to a maximum point which could not be surpassed. In the third movement the flute and the piano played together and played nearly the same thing, with the exception of the flutes higher notes. This to had an increasing in intensity and tempo.
The History of Chinese Music The history and development of Chinese music through different time periods from when it began.
Unlike western music which focus on beats, rhyme and melody, Chinese music ,as part of six art of Confucianism, pursues balances, the beauty of nature and become the part of nature. Chinese music is based on the ancient Chinese pentatonic, five-tone musical system which are classified as Keng, Shang, Chueh, Chih, and Yue. According to the Chinese musical theory, the five-tone musical system are connected to five elements that construct the world and inner working of man, which are metal, wood, water, fire and...
Peking Opera is over 200 years old (Wertz).It started in approximately “1790, when four opera troupes from the province of Anhui came to Beijing to perform on the occasion of the 80th birthday of the emperor, Qianlong” (HISTORY, Xu). It was originally performed in “open air, teahouses or temple courtyards” (Wertz). Peking Opera is a blend of “singing, reading, acting, fighting, and dancing” (ebeijing).”Today as in the past century, performers are first trained in acrobatics, followed by singing and acting” (Wertz).