I went to the SJSU Music Concert Hall on November 11,2015, and it costs 5 dollars for the ticket. When I arrived there, I saw that most of the audiences are SJSU students, and a few of them are professors. The audiences dressed casually, and I dressed casually as well because I think that I was a casual listener at the concert. When I was listening to different pieces, I felt amazing because I never heard this kind of music before. I enjoyed the slow tempo because it gives me the feeling of relax. The pieces that were performed are “ If You Walked A Mile”, “The Five”, “Variations for Abbey”, “Ion Trails”, “ A Different Drummer”, and “All Our Broken Instruments”. The musical style for “If you Walked A Mile” is classical and electric, for “The Five” is orchestra, and the rest of the pieces are classic and electric. There were drums, computer, marimba, gong, triangle, and timpani as instrumentation of the ensemble. There was no seating arrangement and there is only one performer. …show more content…
The piece is a jazz number, but I am not sure the purpose of the music. The tempo for this piece is moderato, and the dynamics for this piece is loud. The instruments are marimba and computer, and I forgot the rhythm because the piece is short. In addition, the melody is distinct thematic contour which could be easily heard by the ears. Moreover, the harmony of this piece is major, and the piece contained A-B pattern, which is binary form. The texture of the piece is polyphonic, and the composer of the piece is Mike McFerron, and the historical period is 2015. The style of the piece is classical, because I feel it. The mood of the piece is sad, because the female voice from the computer sounds