...Kim, Hyoungjoo MU106-M03 November 27 2013 Concert Report for My Music Class I attended the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra’s “Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto “on Sunday, November 3, 2013 at New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark. The hall was much more magnificent than I expected. In addition, the deep hum of a thousand voices work up the excitement of me, I’m not a big fan of classical music concerts though at the entrance. At the beginning of the concert, the orchestra who is armed with tuxedos and full dress was seated on the stage. The concertmaster came out to tune the orchestra, and then the conductor made his entrance. They performed music from Hungary, Germany and Russia. Zoltán Kodály’s Dances of Galanta is the Hungarian work and Tchaikovsky’s beloved Piano Concerto No. 1 is the Russian piece. In addition, they explained these make significant use of folk music, adapting them in individual and compelling ways. By contrast, Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 4, which we hear before intermission, is more in keeping with the Viennese symphonic tradition. The combination of an abstract Germanic formal model with more geographically focused musical content gives this concert its profile. First, Zoltán Kodály’s Dances of Galanta opens with a cello melody with strong dotted rhythm. After that by the strings, they played the same theme by French horn, and then passed around the orchestra. The next, played clarinet soloist it was brief cadenza before...
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...CLASSICAL CONCERT REPORT You must attend 2 concerts this semester. One of the concerts must be Classical the other Jazz. A classical concert is one that features wind band music, opera, orchestra, or choral groups. You must include the ticket or program for this concert, or take a picture of yourself at the concert. You must attach the picture or paste it into the document to receive credit. Write your report in essay format. You must answer all questions to receive credit. Your report should be at least 2 pages in length, double spaced, no larger than 12 point font. 1. Date of concert attended (you must attend a concert during the same semester that you take this class) 2. What was the name of the group(s) that performed? 3. Where was this concert held? Please describe the hall. 4. What type of music was played at this concert? 5. List all of the pieces that were performed, including the composer's names. 6. Select 4 pieces that interested you from the entire concert and write 1 paragraph for each of those pieces (this section will be at least 4 paragraphs long). Provide a narrative of your observations concerning such elements as melody, rhythm, dynamics, tempo, instrumentation, texture, form, etc. Describe the major musical characteristics of each piece, including the solos, tempo, dynamics, instrumentation, or themes, etc. 7. Describe the musicians. What instruments were played? 8. What were your most...
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...Concert Report: Mannheim Steamroller I was lucky enough to attend the concert of the music concert of the Mannheim Steamroller, which in my mind blew me away with its interesting and innovative way to include Christmas Music and Other genre of music. This production was extra special because it was the 25th anniversary for this historic performance. The composer, Chip Davis, whom has won a Grammy Award for his work, created a show that featured the great and talented music of the Mannheim Steamroller and included state of the art effects and visuals. It was truly a breathe taking performance. It was also a performance I would most likely come to again if it comes around soon or is around where I live. The music for the concert by Mannheim Steamroller was very delightful, and showed great display of all the instruments. I enjoyed the concert with great enthusiasm because previously before attending the concert I had never heard such music. After listening to a few songs, I turned to my buddy who came with me and said this music is new to me and that is why I was enjoying it so much. If I had to relate a chapter from our book or lessons into the music from the concert, I would say it would fit into the classical category. It was fun to listen to music that I currently do not listen to very often. If I had to relate this to my history 203 class I would say you would most likely here this in the classical era. Which was a considerably long time ago, rather than most music...
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...Concert Attendance Report I went to go see Musica Antiqua Koln on Tuesday November 7 at the L.A. Philharmonic. The concert included the works from such famous composers from the Baroque period such as Heinrich Bach, Johann Christoph Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann, Johan Sebastian Bach, Johann David Heinichen, and Jan Dismas Zelenka. All of whom were either friends, relatives, or acquaintances of Johan Sebastian Bach. Prior to going to the concert I was not sure what to expect, I have been to concerts and small shows many times, but I have never been to a classical concert. Throughout the concert, I played to role of a perceptive listener which I believe is largely due in part to this class. This class has given me a whole new appreciation for classical music especially pieces from the Baroque Period, but I also listen to every piece of music in a way I have never listened before. I always analyze a musical pieces now, I listen to every piece of music fully giving it a chance, before passing judgment on it, and I now take pride in having a knowledge of a wider variety of musical styles. The instrumentation of the orchestra varied with each piece that was performed. Two Sonatas “a sinque”, by Heinrich Bach consisted of two violins, two violas, and a double bass. In this Sonata there is a 5 part texture evident throughout the piece. The Unity is evident through the double bass and the two violas. The listener is given variety through to violins. The rhythm of the...
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...Introduction to World Music Professor Glenn McMillan 1003 M Room gmac@mec.cuny.edu Office Hours Appointments Only 718 270 4929 Music 100 Please leave email Introduction to World Music Syllabus-Spring 2013 This course is an introduction to music and to the musical mechanics from a global perspective. There will be three aims: • to increase the students understanding of music, including its elements, structures, and terminology through live performances, students and guest artists; • to increase the students awareness, cultural connections to explore and their understanding of global relationships; how these cultures utilize musical elements, and the role that music plays within that culture; and • Most importantly, to increase the students understanding of the origins of the students’ owns individual music appreciation and the connection to the global village. Course Objectives • To explore and reconsider ideas about cultural contact in the process of musical change • To understand music terminology • To understand, review and write reports on live performances using terminology demonstrating knowledge of musical elements within rhythm, pitch, and structure • To understand and further identify the social, economic, historical, philosophical and psychological elements, which affect the form of the assigned music • To identify aurally and explain rhythm...
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...Ariana Duenas Wednesday, 17 October 2012 Music Report “Rhapsody in blue” On September 29, 2012, the symphony Orchestra at Moorpark College had their first concert of the fall semester with special guest the horn player, Jennifer Bliman and Esther Keel on Piano. The Symphony Orchestra collectively performed three pieces during the concert. The hall was much more crowded than I expected. At the beginning of the concert, the orchestra was seated on the stage; the men wore tuxedos, and the women wore black dresses or pants. The concertmaster came out to tune the orchestra, and then the conductor made his entrance and gave a brief description of the piece that was about to be played. Alexander Borodin’s piece Symphony No. 2 in B minor was composed in the romantic period. He was a member of the group of composers called The five (or "The Mighty Handful"), who were dedicated to producing a specifically Russian kind of art music. It has a homophonic texture and its genre is classical music. There is a wide variety of instruments used in this piece. Among the wind instruments (woodwinds and brass) heard were bassoon, oboe, French horn, and trumpet. The strings played included the violin, viola, cello, and bass. Finally, the percussion instrument used for this piece was the timpani. This movement is broken down into four sections by tempo: Allegro, scherzo, andante, and Allegro. The allegro section begins with a fast introduction at a forte dynamic. This section is in a B minor...
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...Carnatic Music: A dying art form Structured Languages Assignment Report Ryan Rodricks ( WE School MIM IV – Roll no 67) Carnatic Music: A dying art form | 1 Table of Contents 1. Executive summary ............................................................................................ 2 2. Secondary study ................................................................................................. 4 Origin ................................................................................................................. 4 Nature ................................................................................................................. 6 Sources ............................................................................................................... 6 3. Design of survey ................................................................................................ 7 3.1 Goal of the survey ......................................................................................... 7 3.2 Sample (Demographics) ................................................................................ 7 3.3 Questions ...................................................................................................... 7 3.4 Survey collection details ............................................................................... 8 4. Questionnaire ..................................................................................................... 9 5. Data collection...
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...degree, for he became a rabbi of sorts (Gottlieb.) However, he went on the major in music at Harvard University. Although, his interest at college was in becoming a concert piano, but he was also introduced to orchestration. While in college, he conducted his own incidental music to “The Birds,” and directed and performed in Marc Blitstein’s “The Cradle Will Rock” (LB, Inc). After graduation he went to study with the Boston Symphon Orchestra’s summer institute, where he was the conducting assistant to Serge Koussevitsky. In 1943 he was placed in his first permanent conducting position with The New York Philharmonic, during his lifetime over 200 of his recordingings were made with the Philharmonic. In 1943 he was also asked to be a guest conductor at Carnegie Hall. This led to him being sought out as a guest conductor. He had his share of critics because of his dance-like style as a conductor. (Gottlieb) In 1945 he was named director of New York City Symphony. He held other positions from 1945 until 1969, conducting more concerts than any previous conductor. He spent a great deal of his time teaching and composing for non-classical gneres. Although it was known by family and friends a great regret was not being able to compose more music, however, the music he did compose was so invigorating and memorable. He brought jazz to the concert hall and syphonies to Broadway. His concert works was said to “revel the influence of many composers – Hindmith, Britten, Shostakovich...
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...In: Film and Music Concert Report The concert that I attended was the Euclid quartet at the first Presbyterian Church. The church itself wasn’t very big but there was a lot of people there and it made it really hard to find a parking space. On the inside the church looked like any ordinary chapel. The large amount of people that were there were dressed very nice and once again I was under dressed. I did however notice more students at this one than I did at BVSO and they were also underdressed which made me feel better. The performers were very composed and acted like typical performing musicians. The piece that I liked the best overall was the Sting Quartet in D minor Op. 76 No. 2 Composed by Franz Joseph Haydn. The style of this song sounded very classical European. One of the reasons l liked this piece the best was because it sounded very classical but my favorite thing about it was how well all four parts came together. The rhythms in this piece were relatively simple and the dynamics changed very little. The tempo was in this piece was also allegro so it was a moderate pace and was played as mostly polyphonic. ` The performance I liked best would still have to be String Quartet in D minor Op. 76 No. 2 Composed by Franz Joseph Haydn. The musicians played it so well together and made all the tempos and rhythms line up flawlessly from what I could tell. I really enjoyed listening these musicians showcase their skill and handwork in playing this piece. The performers reactions...
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...This study selected young kids, ages 3 and 4, who are taking a musical program and later will perform in two concerts as research participants. This study used a self-report survey, a questionnaire given to parents, a testing on Cortisol secretion, and a lesson observation as research measures. The study argued that music performance anxiety (MPA) for child performers could be affected both by acquired and inborn nature. Results showed that first, stress and MPA exists among child performers. Second, the more prior experience of performing, the less anticipatory anxiety will occur. Third, young children receiving more prior experience of performing also have higher Cortisol levels. Fourth, the quality of performance can be improved if child performers are more familiar with their performance location, venue, and environment. Fifth, children performed better in the second concert than in the first one. Finally, increasing experience of performing may reduce the level of stress and anxiety....
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...Concert Report: 1 I attended the College Campus Community Band in the Picotte Recital Hall at the Massery Center for the Arts at the College of Saint Rose on December 7, 2010 at 7:30 P.M. The concert hall was just about filled up with a rather enthusiastic crowd on hand. The audience consisted of older people ranging from the ages of 30 to around 70. Everyone who was in attendance was casually dressed in nicer street clothes. The overall feel was really relaxed and everyone seemed like they were enjoying themselves as the night was beginning. The performers were all dressed in black shirts and pants and were very relaxed despite having a performance. The performers were on stage practicing before the performance began and when they were finished they came down to see everyone in the crowd mostly parents and relatives. The concert hadn’t even began yet but you could tell it was going to be a fun night overall for everyone in attendance. The music I enjoyed the most was a piece by Antonin Dvorak called Largo from the fifth new world symphony. This was a classical piece because it was created around the late 1800’s. I really enjoyed this piece of music because it was one of four movements and it was really relaxing to me. When I was listening to it, I felt really happy and I was into the piece and it really caught my attention. The band was medium sized and the mood was to me felt exciting. The band really played it with a sense of happiness. I was really happy when I was listening...
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...Ayumi Higa Language of Music/MU 122 004 Professor Charsky September 20, 2014 Concert Report Paper The Faculty Favorites Concert celebrating Caldwell University’s seventy-five year anniversary took place on September 20, 2014 at 6 o’clock p.m. in the Alumni Theatre. The Alumni Theatre is relatively a small hall with a theatre-like environment. The seats are set up in a way where they curved around the stage and the ceiling is very high. The stage was already set up with the drum set, piano, and bass form the beginning. In general, the audience was very calm and mindful of the theatre and performers. Some of the audience members were dressed formally while others were dressed casually. The performers were very professional and attentive to their performances. The men were dressed mostly in black and the women in other colors such as yellow and dark blue. All of the performers that performed were extremely talented, but the music I liked the best was “O Sole Mio (My Sunshine)”. The lyrics of the song was written by G. Capurro and the music was composed by E. di Capua. The performance consisted of only the piano and a singer. The song was performed by Dan Yates singing in baritone and Warren Hems on the piano. This style of this song appeared to be a western classical opera. The performer did an amazing job interpreting the song and did an amazing job using the space provided on the stage. He not only looked in one direction but directed his voice in all...
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...Kelly Pryor May 1, 2011 spring 2011 MUSHL 10100 sec 004 Concert Report On Friday May 18,2011 I went to see the Hunter College Symphony. It was composed of many movements but i will only be talking about my three favorites. The first movement was a solo piece from the opera "Robberto Devereux" sung by Emily Serotta. Opera is the art of story telling through music and song. The soloist or Aria as its called for opera was accompanied by the full orchestra. Since operas are usually sung in italian, there was no surprise that this one was also in Italian. The piece was also sung in mezzo soprano voice. The dynamics started out fortissimo or very loud and descended into piano(soft). These dynamics were meant to represent the dying love of a heart broken women. The texture was predominantly monophonic because there was one sound or melodic line accompanied by the orchestra playing the same notes. The second movement was a a concerto by W.A. Mozart in B flat major for the piano and orchestra. The concerto is a piece of musical work usually in three parts or movement in which one solo instrument is accompanied by an orchestra. The concerto was in three movements the first was Allegro or very fast, the second Adante or rather slow and the third Allegro again bringing the piece full circle. The dynamics started of Piano and gradually rose to a crescendo. The texture was polyphonic because there were two different melodic lines that stood out and were performed simultaneously...
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...on Chinese Classical Music In Chinese classical music, Pipa is one of the most popular traditional musical instruments in China and known as the “king of plucked string instrument.” It is a plucked four-stringed musical instrument having a pear-shaped wooden body with a varying number of frets ranging from 12 to 26. It has been played for about two thousands years in China and many Chinese ancient literary works and poems are related to pipa praising its refinement through its bright timbre and rapid rolling tremolo. Unlike nowadays situation that everyone could learn how to play pipa or enjoy the pipa performance in the concert, people from upper class in the ancient time rarely played classical instrumnets such as pipa and guqin (a plucked seven-string instrument of the zither family) in public or for commercial purposes. And they always refused to be regard as musician because performing artists in ancient China are usually considered as the lowest social class. “In traditional China, most well–educated people and monks could play classical music as a means of self-cultivation, meditation, soul purification and spiritual elevation, union with nature, identification with the values of past sages, and communication with divine beings or with friends and lovers” (Liu) However, the development of pipa in the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD) let it became popular in both court music and ordinary people. Indeed, pipa music has a profound impact on the Chinese classical music with its unique...
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...I recently attended a concert entitled Masterpieces of the Guitar. The concert was performed by a solo artist named Robert Wetzel. The concert was presented by The Grossmont Guitar Guild, it was held at the Cuyamaca College of Performing Arts on October 29, 2012. This report will detail my experience and give an accurate, unbiased review of “Masterpieces of the Guitar.” Before the performance began I had the opportunity to sample the program and read through it thoroughly. The most important thing I learned from the program was information about the artist performing. I also learned about some of the music being performed. Pertaining to the artist performing his solo act, Robert Wetzel, he has a rich history in music. According to the program he began studying guitar at the young age of fifteen. He studied under master guitarist’s Angel Romero, Pepe Romero and Celedonio Romero. If you couldn’t already tell, all three of his masters were related and he considers himself part of this lineage. Today, he is a resident of San Diego, California. In addition to his performances with the guitar he also teaches music at San Diego State University, Grossmont College, Southwestern College and the University of California. I also learned, from the program about the songs I was about to hear performed by Wetzel. The artists listed include: Milan, Narvaez, Frescobaldi, Scarlatti,, Bach, Schumann, Debussy, Satie, Ravel, Moreno-Torroba, Tansman and Presti. I think this was important because...
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