Bassoon

The scoring is dense and somewhat atypical, however. Jenkins includes a sting bass, a cello, three baritone parts, three flute parts, and four clarinet and trombone parts. Jenkins includes the string bass part because is important to the texture of the piece. The tuba cues, like all the cues in the piece, are “safety doublings” and “should be played only in the absence of the instrument shown”. The cello part is also critical to measure one hundred twenty-seven, one hundred twenty-eight, one hundred thirty-three, and one hundred thirty-four as it supplies the only rhythmic off beats. Also, when seating the lower reeds, both a contrabass clarinet and a contrabassoon are preferred. Having one of them over the other is acceptable, as the bassoon is not always playing the root of the chord. The alto clarinet is also important to the orchestration of the piece as it plays an important role in the functional harmony in measure seventy-five through seventy-nine. Finally, the flute one and two parts often double each other. Therefore, seat the same number of flute three players, as there is flute one and two combined. For performance, an appropriate tempo needs to be well established. The tempo should also be maintained through the entire piece. The tempo the conductor decides to take must provide clarity and portray forward momentum within the piece. Although the printed tempo is Allegro molto, quarter note equals one hundred thirty-six, Jenkins prefers a tempo around…

champions- at a meet. Looking at the score distribution, I couldn’t help but smile when I noticed that the majority of our team’s points were earned not from our top swimmers, but from everyone else. 3. Even before I held one in my own hands, the bassoon had been a special instrument to me. Growing up, the sounds of a bassoon infiltrated my subconscious, playing the sound sidekick to various cartoon characters I watched. My desire to play the instrument arose when I heard the bassoon for the…

Convention expects the dominant Ab7th chord in bar to resolve into Db major: however, a solo bassoon joins the violins and plays an ascending scalic movement in the parallel minor. This ascending scalic movement in bars 11-12 foreshadows the beginning of the B section beginning at bar 28. The single Db note creates ambiguity, as the tonality could be either major or minor: minor in this case. The single Db creates a thin, open texture and is marked with “p subito”, contrasting the “forte” prior…

Upon attending the International Chamber Music Festival Concert, a certain ecstatic vibe could be felt as the performers walked on stage with their musical instruments. The virtuoso’s performed in pieces that contained trios, duets, and quintets; showing the concentration they required when listening to each other. When working on Chamber Music, much of the melody jumps around from instrument to instrument, show casing various solos and much of the instruments having to coincide with each other…

Romeo and Juliet by Peter Tchaikovsky comprises of different events from the original play by William Shakespeare (Adagietto 2013). Tchaikovsky used many characters as well as moods with melodies that provided efficient musical differences. This play begins with an excellent clarinet and bassoon melody that indicates the two individuals’ relationship, somber as well as the friar Laurance. It is based on the Overture Fantasy; however it does not have the opus number Everybody can relate to the…

Beethoven and Mozart: both masters of their generation’s music and often portrayed as the building blocks of what music is today. Each made significant movements under the genre of classical but are both known for their unique executions of duets. Both Beethoven’s Allegro comodo and Mozart’s Allegro demonstrate each of their technical abilities yet are completely different in the way each piece is executed. Beethoven’s Comodo demonstrates his focus on both parts, in which they both share…

instruments performing as a symphony orchestra. There were seven characters in Peter in the Wolf all represented by different Instruments. The flute represented the bird, the oboe represented the duck, the clarinet represented the cat, the bassoon represented the grandfather, three french horns represented the wolf, the string section represented Peter, and the tympany and big bass drum represented the sound of gunshots. The first instruments to begin playing are the strings (Peter), then…

In Brahms Academic Festival Overture my first impressions were this 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…

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…

This week in we learned about music and philosophers in the 1800’s. We learned the 1800’s was the emancipation of music from language. One of the ideas was that music is able to do what language cannot. It was stating that sometimes we cannot explain our emotions or what we want to say. Therefore, we use music to express what we cannot say. In some ways, music was like a process of philosophy. The romantics was when literature, paintings, and art were important. With the romantics, everyone…