Personal Narrative: Assisting To A Baroque Orchestra

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The event that I decided to go was BYU Baroque Ensemble, a production made by BYU students, taking place at Madsen Recital Hall Harris Fine Arts Center on November 3.
The idea of making a baroque orchestra is where musician get together to make a perfect composition of music, the baroque orchestra is made up mostly of stringed instruments, when you listen you feel something different that makes you see it from another perspective, you just can’t stop listening and focus on every note that the musicians are playing. The type of instruments that were utilized in conjunction were the basso continuo, played by a viol, cello or bassoon. Other parts were added between the melody and the bass by a keyboard instrument, usually a harpsichord or organ and the development of tonal harmony, in which the melodic voices movement remains under the functional chord progression.

Assisting to a Baroque Orchestra event, it’s a nice experience, which allows you to get closer to what is music, I have to address with greater motivation to understand and enjoy different forms of musical expression. The work presented containing different elements, which managed to produce a
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And although I could not distinguish the end of one work and another, of this if I knew when it would end as it was as there came a time when everything sounded very strong, very powerful and suddenly stopped. It was really good. Many of these instruments, except for those that are continuous, which are almost always present, are reserved for specific times of the work highlighting certain expressive or symbolic aspects. The transmission of emotions is organized through the theory of emotions and rhetoric, transferring concepts of traditional speech to the composition of the musical discourse, because its purpose is to strengthen the transmission of meaning and

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