Critical Analysis Of Nino Rota's Sonata In D

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Sonata in D This piece originally composed by the talented Italian composer, Nino Rota around the 20th century. Rota was a well-renowned music composer and an enthusiast of Viola. He dedicated most of his compositions to his fellow music composers. Notably, Rota composed the second Sonata to Piero Farulli. This particular piece of the composition contained three different movements under the C major. The movements were such as Allegretto scorrevole, Andante quasi Adagio, and Allegro scorrevole. In the “A Little Bit of this, a Little Bit of that” concert, Julia Heinen, and Francoise Regnet tried their best to bring out the calming effect of the different pieces. For instance, the Allegretto had a tempo that varied in nature. At some point, …show more content…

They include songs such as “To Smash the Night”, “To break this Shadow”, and “Into a Thousand Lights of Sun.” To smash the night has a varied tempo to it. In some instance, the song seems to be slow before it changes to a quick one. It is also notable that the three percussions tend to complement each other in tone variation and rhythm. At some point in the song, the piano seems to wait on the clarinet and the violin, while at other the clarinet and violin seems to follow the piano’s lead. In the end, the dynamics of the music change in a crescendo to create a colorful texture of music that brings out a happy feeling to the listener. On its part, to break this shadow is a slow-paced piece of music at the start with a lot of sad feelings in it. However, it does variate in tempo all through the song while soothing the mind of the listener with relative ease. The piano does also take precedence in this piece in varied pattern to the clarinet. On the other hand, into a thousand lights of sun is has fast with lots of coordinated tonal variation that create a gradual change in texture. All the pieces had some bit of dynamism in them that made each one of them seem different from the other. In the long run, they did elicit some feeling of happiness to the listeners with a lot of soothing …show more content…

It has a mixture of both medium and fast paced tempo with lots of harmonic tonal variations although the song. Both the piano and clarinet get to be incorporated in a way that gives the other percussion its identity without affecting the overall rhythm and melody of the song. The song does also have some considerable high pitch notes. For instance, the clarinet is used to denote the different points in the song where there is a change in the tone. Due the song’s pace variation and high tones, the piece does not elicit any bit of emotions. However, it does seem mysterious in its

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