Examples Of Classical And Classical Performance Of Music

From all the readings and class discussions about performances, the concepts will be demonstrated by classical and popular performances of music. According to Bourdieu, “Music is the most ‘spiritual’ of the arts of the spirit and a love of music is a guarantee of spirituality” (Bourdieu). Music is considered to be art due to its sound, structure and feeling it gives to individuals. In addition, music has a variety of genres to classical music from Beethoven to pop culture music such as Michael Jackson and Lady Gaga. Individuals listen, play and interpret music differently to others but in the end, people enjoy music and it is a form of art that will never go out of style. Similarly, the observation and experience of going into different types

A free admission concert of classical music in the art museum. Before the concert started, going into the art museum especially in the areas where they show paintings from the Renaissance and paintings that would be considered to be from the “Aristocratic” era, had the atmosphere of a classical decade. The performance that I was seeing is a Harpsichord player named Ignacio Prego, who was playing the classical works of Johannan Sebastian Bach, which is also part of the “Goldberg Variations” where the works of Bach . When I saw him play a classical instrument, I was astonished because I have never of anything like this before, especially a classical live performance. When I was hearing the performance, the first thing that came to my head was “This is not my type of music” also when I reacted to the performance it was almost a cultural shock to me. While I kept watching and listening to the performance, I felt that I was going back in time to the Aristocratic era. Music during the time period was growing into society, although it already has before but it was a beginning for the aesthetics to learn about music and others learning to appreciate

Zedd is a DJ and musician, who produces electro house music, his genre of music has influences from progressive house and dupstep which are part of the electro dance genre. During the concert the music was loud, it had a strong party atmosphere, large amount of people. The concert was an exciting experience for me, and it was also my first live popular concert that I ever been to. My reaction to the concert would be considered to be “mind-blowing” especially by seeing all the bright neon lights and the amount of people that were there. It was huge difference from hearing the songs by Zedd in my room and the car to a live musical performance, because in my room I can only hear the songs at a minimum volume compared to a live concert that I can hear the song at a maximum volume and have more of a live experience of being in the moment of the electro dance genre. Electro dance is a genre of music that’s becoming more popular over the past five years and in my view pop and electro dance starting to become part of modern popular aesthetics. From Bourdieu’s book called Distinction, “popular aesthetics were based on the affirmation of continuity between art and life, which implies the subordination of form and function” (Bourdieu). It is a new form of art that is expanding throughout society and the cultural market such as the music industry, where it’s capturing attention