Timpani

concert. It started off with a bang. The most prominent instruments were the french horn, the flute and the violin. The beginning of the introduction resembled an ancient tribal call with the use of indefinite instruments such as the triangle. The timpani allowed for crescendo and a…

1. Le nozze di Figaro K 492 a. The overture captures the spirit of the opera with themes specific to the overture that do not appear anywhere else in the opera. b. The overture was written just hours before the opera’s first performance and Mozart’s main concern was to catch the audience’s attention immediately and to show the opera’s pace. c. Overture begins with a piano whispering and buzzing that develops into a short-breathed theme. d. The tutti then comes in with the trumpets and drums,…

song is a light weight but then I heard the sounds become over the top, festive. Brahms symphony was limited with instruments, such as: cellos, double basses, violas, violins, bassoons, clarinets, flutes, oboes, French horns, trumpets, trombones and timpani. What gave the light weight and airy affect was the strings and the bassoons gave an accented popping sound. The string section build up though a crescendo. The small brass section consists of French horns, trumpets and trombones. French…

Around the wind instruments (woodwinds and metal) heard were bassoon, oboe, French horn, and trumpet. The strings played incorporated the violin, viola, cello, and twofold bass. At last, the percussion instrument utilized for this piece was the timpani. This…

All three of these pieces are something that is completely different, but they all have one thing in common, music. The Fanfare for the Common Man and Adagio for Strings is something I have heard a few times here or there, whether it was in movies or even in music class whenever I was younger. The Drum Corps International 2014 was a collaboration of multiple drum corps from all over that displayed the show at a competition. Analyzing each element of these videos really made me realize how much I…

La creation du monde is a 20-minute ballet for small orchestra composed in 1923, which outlines the Creation of the world, based on African folk mythology. Influences in the music come from blues and ragtime, particularly in the melodies, and African rhythms. The ballet is in six continuous dance scenes, as follows: 1) Overture 2) The Chaos before Creation 3) The slowly lifting darkness, the creation of trees, plants insects, birds and beasts 4) Man and woman created 5) The desire of man and…

trombones – alto, tenor and bass, timpani, violins I, II, viola and the basso continuo which was played by cello, double bass and organ) , soli (soprano, contralto, tenor and bass) and SATB mixed choir. Cherubini composed two settings, one in C minor and one in D minor. The C minor requiem is composed for only SATB mixed choir and orchestra (strings: violin I, II, viola, cello, double bass plus 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 French horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani, and gong).…

Mark Debski Handel MHST 373 16 November 2016 Fauré Requiem French composer Gabriel Fauré was born in Pamiers, Ariège, France on May 12, 1845 and died in Paris on November 4, 1924. Unlike most French composers, Fauré did not attend the Paris Conservatoire. Instead, from the age of nine, he attended the École Niedermeyer, where he studied with Camille Saint-Saëns. Despite not attending the Conservatoire, Fauré eventually became professor of composition there, and was then appointed Director…

In this film, the Vienna Philharmonic played Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 in E Minor “From the New World.” This piece displays the serenity of the new world, with violins and violas playing pizzicato to resemble trickling streams, the basses and cellos playing fortissimo in order to represent roaring rivers, and the brass playing in unison to signify the enormous, yet beautiful mountain ranges. Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 contains four movements. The first movement is in sonata allegro form.…

favorite-classical-composers.com). To make it sound fuller he added two Clarinet and two Flutes to the woodwind section of the first and last movements. The piece in the total had two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, and two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, timpani and Strings. “The work is in eight movements, including three minuets, two slow movements, two full sonata-form movements, and a sizable central rondo. There are remarkably few real melodies in the work, just juxtapositions of…