Bassoon

performance, it was said that the orchestra didn’t play very well at all. Many instruments played a role in the one symphony. The symphony is scored for piccolo (4th movement only), two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets in B and C, two bassoons, contrabassoon or double bassoon (4th movement only), two horns in E and C, two trumpets, three trombones (alto, tenor, and bass, 4th movement only), timpani (in G-C) and strings. I played this piece for my mom and it is not particularly her cup of tea in…

Beethoven & Tchaikovsky: Musical Geniuses of Their Time and Ours When performing a song, how do you make it yours? Do you sing it faster than is written, add extra harmonies or play an instrument with you? The way you perform a song is unique to your style. The same concept applies to composing a song- and is exemplified by Ludwig von Beethoven and Pyotr Il'ich Tchaikovsky. Beethoven’s parents were extremely persistent on getting Beethoven to be a Mozart-esque child prodigy when he was young (c.…

Edgar Lee Masters wrote a collection of poems entitled Spoon River Anthology in which Fiddler Jones and Lucinda Matlock are two of the 244 characters. Spoon River Anthology is composed of multiple postmortem autobiographical poems, also known as epitaphs, of a small fictional town, Spoon River, Illinois. The literature delves deep into the lives of the deceased and discuss the truth with full disclosure. Fiddler Jones’s and Lucinda Matlock’s lives contrast in how they were constructed, their…

In this essay I will discuss the incredible works of the composers that have contributed to the music world and compare Program Symphony to Symphonic Poems and Impressionism to Expressionism music created by these composers. Program Music and Symphonic Poems are similar in that they play onto the imagination of the listeners of the mental pictures of the scenes or characters as they listen. Both genre are based on telling a story or poem. Although they have these similarities…

He saw something in me that no one else did, and I didn't know at the time, but I’d later draw inspiration from that in a different setting. My sophomore year is arguably when I blossomed musically, and as a person. I fully developed skills on bassoon and euphonium, which I continue today. I joined the Westchester Brassmen, to which I owe most of my success with euphonium. Playing weekly progressed from not being able to reach a D to freely facing crowded parades. Members taught me how to…

Franz Jospeh Haydn was crucial figure within musical history. Born 1732, he was an essential figure in the growth of chamber music and his influence within musical form earned him the name of the father of the classical period. A symphony typically refers to a large work for an orchestra that was usually in four movements. During the 18th century, the symphony had been developing and by this point most composers had established a pattern of four sections that became known as movements.…

guillotine. The last movement is like a hellish dream and portrays Harriet as a witch. This movement sounds very hellish, ghoulish, and whimsical, in a way. In this movement, it sounds like a witch cackling and riding her broomstick, and the tubas and bassoons play the typical funeral chant of the time, Dies…

strings that must be plucked with the fingers or with a bow. The woodwinds consists of instruments that must be blown into to play, often with the aid of a double or single reed. These instruments include the flute, the oboe, the English horn, the bassoon, the clarinet. The brass section consists of instruments whose sound is traditionally made by buzzing into a mouthpiece. This includes the trumpet, the French horn, the euphonium and the tuba. The final section is the percussion instruments,…

Assignment #3 I was very interested in the video. Overall the video gave me a nostalgic feeling, and I found it very intriguing how the actors portray how each excerpt of the piece came to be. Some nonmusical elements that I found in the in the video were simple things like the actors acting what happened and how the piece came to be. Another nonmusical element would be the narrating that is going on. Some cultural context that I noticed was Russian and Lithuanian roots in the play. Stravinsky…

as if about to start a third phrase. Then, in m. 53, the second violin imitates the beginning of the phrase at G5. The flute and oboe follow at m. 54 at the same pitch (E) as the first violins, except that the oboe is doubled an octave lower. The bassoons and low strings follow suit at m. 55 at the same pitch (G) as the second violins, but two octaves lower. At the start of rehearsal letter A, the flutes and oboes have the melody, repeating what the violins had just…