On Nov.4, I attended a concert from SJSU called “Listening Hour”, which is a casual-dressed concerts since most audience—students and professors from SJSU are not dressed. Basically It is a quite delightful concert in a relaxing and joyful phenomenon. As audience, I believe I’m a perceptive listener since I’m the combination of casual and critical listener. During yesterday’s concert, I made some comments on different performers(vocals) from perspectives of emotion, skills, and stage presence. Importantly, I will analyze this concert with my perceptive listener’s characteristics and music appreciation knowledge in detail.
The Listening Hour, located in music 176, is small-scale vocal solo concert including 11 vocal soloists’ performance of …show more content…
The song, E Lucevan le Stelle-tosca is also a classic opera composed in 1900 by Puccino. It also has wide range—from F#3 to A4. Performed by one piano, the opera emphasizes the sad emotion from beginning to the end. I don’t really understand the lyric, however I almost tear and have goosebumps. Later I find out the English version, its name is “The stars were shining”. I think this opera delivers a strong emotion that people want to get rid of some depression or sore. Thus it might belong to normal entertainment music. Due to the moderate speed, I subject it to the moderato tempo, which is little faster than andante. Since the song tells the story that Cavaradossi is imprisoned for his part in a liberal political plot and condemned to death, a fate from which Tosca seeks to save him, the song varies quite widely and has the high dynamic. The tenor soloist reflects the miserable emotion that desires freedom—that is the reason why solo becomes tremendous important in this opera. Piano seems like a buffer of this strong emotion, creating the harmony of sore and peace. As a wide-range opera, its melody is disjunct mostly. There are a few conjunct parts in the beginning to weaken some harsh emotion smoothly. However, in the harmony part, it appears the consonance although pitch range is
The Listening Hour, located in music 176, is small-scale vocal solo concert including 11 vocal soloists’ performance of …show more content…
The song, E Lucevan le Stelle-tosca is also a classic opera composed in 1900 by Puccino. It also has wide range—from F#3 to A4. Performed by one piano, the opera emphasizes the sad emotion from beginning to the end. I don’t really understand the lyric, however I almost tear and have goosebumps. Later I find out the English version, its name is “The stars were shining”. I think this opera delivers a strong emotion that people want to get rid of some depression or sore. Thus it might belong to normal entertainment music. Due to the moderate speed, I subject it to the moderato tempo, which is little faster than andante. Since the song tells the story that Cavaradossi is imprisoned for his part in a liberal political plot and condemned to death, a fate from which Tosca seeks to save him, the song varies quite widely and has the high dynamic. The tenor soloist reflects the miserable emotion that desires freedom—that is the reason why solo becomes tremendous important in this opera. Piano seems like a buffer of this strong emotion, creating the harmony of sore and peace. As a wide-range opera, its melody is disjunct mostly. There are a few conjunct parts in the beginning to weaken some harsh emotion smoothly. However, in the harmony part, it appears the consonance although pitch range is