I attended the concert in the Singletary Recital Hall in Lexington, KY. Located on the University of Kentucky campus it is the home of an art museum and recital hall. Many music majors spend time in this venue honing their listening and performing skills. The individual who performed today was a member of the University of Kentucky faculty. The hall was a great venue to enjoy classical music. There was plenty of seating available, audience was excellent and they were very respectful to the performer. The hall was designed specifically for the performance of classical music and very little to no distortion when the performer hit notes with very high resonance.
Composition I liked Best: The composition that I enjoyed the most was Concerto for Trumpet by Johann Hummel. This piece has three movements, allegro con spirit, andante, and rondo. It was written in 1803 during the classical period. When I selected the concert to attend the details of what would be played weren’t readily available. Essentially I went into the concert blind but I quickly realized that …show more content…
Johann Hummel at one point was an opera director, because of that we here material of the operas that were common during his time (Phillips, 2008). Phillips (2008) discusses the important aspects of each movement of Concerto for Trumpet. As for movement III, he considers that there are three styles; contredanse, march and gavotte. Movement II is considered an “aria for the soloist” (Phillips, 2008). I would agree with this based on the feeling that I received by listening to movement II, a slow methodically moving segment with a significant amount of sadness. According to Phillips (2008) Hummel contrasts two opera genres, buffa and seria. This is important due to the fact that this piece was written in a pastiche type of way, different elements of other musical works were used to construct the Concerto for Trumpet (Phillips,
Composition I liked Best: The composition that I enjoyed the most was Concerto for Trumpet by Johann Hummel. This piece has three movements, allegro con spirit, andante, and rondo. It was written in 1803 during the classical period. When I selected the concert to attend the details of what would be played weren’t readily available. Essentially I went into the concert blind but I quickly realized that …show more content…
Johann Hummel at one point was an opera director, because of that we here material of the operas that were common during his time (Phillips, 2008). Phillips (2008) discusses the important aspects of each movement of Concerto for Trumpet. As for movement III, he considers that there are three styles; contredanse, march and gavotte. Movement II is considered an “aria for the soloist” (Phillips, 2008). I would agree with this based on the feeling that I received by listening to movement II, a slow methodically moving segment with a significant amount of sadness. According to Phillips (2008) Hummel contrasts two opera genres, buffa and seria. This is important due to the fact that this piece was written in a pastiche type of way, different elements of other musical works were used to construct the Concerto for Trumpet (Phillips,