1. Affective Listening: Describe the music listened to for this week and reflect on your reactions to the music. Things to consider may include your familiarity and previous exposure to the works, your emotional reactions to the music, thoughts that occurred to you while listening, memories associated with past listening or performances, unique compositional aspects such as instrumentation, phrasing, structure that stand out to you, etc.
Both of these compositions differ from our previous listenings. Mozart’s music was much more predictable. This music of the Romantic period is much more unpredictable at times. I also feel that there is much more depth to these works of Beethoven and Mendelssohn. The works are much more extreme in many ways. The harmonic progressions are more advanced and the explicit use of dynamics is unlike what would have been seen in Mozart’s time.
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Structural Listening: Discuss the sound and structure of the music. What’s unique about the composer’s choice and treatment of instrumentation, genre, structure, tonality, melody, harmony, and text? If it incorporates text, what’s unique about the text and the composer’s treatment of the text?
I find the sound of both of these compositions to be very similar. Although the Overture is much more flowing than the symphony, they still have similar qualities. The both have very light agile passages that are constantly interrupted by the brass. The both follow a similar form and focus around a main
Both of these compositions differ from our previous listenings. Mozart’s music was much more predictable. This music of the Romantic period is much more unpredictable at times. I also feel that there is much more depth to these works of Beethoven and Mendelssohn. The works are much more extreme in many ways. The harmonic progressions are more advanced and the explicit use of dynamics is unlike what would have been seen in Mozart’s time.
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Structural Listening: Discuss the sound and structure of the music. What’s unique about the composer’s choice and treatment of instrumentation, genre, structure, tonality, melody, harmony, and text? If it incorporates text, what’s unique about the text and the composer’s treatment of the text?
I find the sound of both of these compositions to be very similar. Although the Overture is much more flowing than the symphony, they still have similar qualities. The both have very light agile passages that are constantly interrupted by the brass. The both follow a similar form and focus around a main