Chamber music

Goossens. The style of music is Nationalistic music. The melody played by the trumpet and other brass instrument played harmony. The rhythm was sharply detached and it has a steady, slow beat, but at the middle it speeds up and shifts into a smooth. At first the melody is low with all of the brass instruments mixed together, but later when more instruments get blended it gets both louder and the melody gets higher. The meter was really hard to measure in this kind of music. The dynamics were…

The Quapaw String Quartet concert Friday, March 23 that was in Bevens Music Room of Brown Chapel at 7:30 pm., which was a Dan C. and Sidney West Endowed Concert. I really enjoyed this concert because the performers are always magnificent, and they are great on conveying the underlying message or feeling of the pieces they play. The performers played pieces from the Classical and Romantic period, and they were in chamber music pieces because the instruments that the performers played were: two…

I am Mamawa Konuwa, the manager of Payton MacDonald and Tom Hammes, performers of North Indian music. I’m writing to you in the hopes that you incorporate this unique act in the next 2015 UW Madison World Music Festival. I am aware that this nationally renowned festival is full of musically talented people from all different genres, performances and backgrounds and I am thoroughly convinced that t my North Indian Musical act will bring even more of a diverse crowd of individuals. The ensemble…

1010 22 Apr 2015 Public School Music: Are We Preaching to the Choir? Words can often fail us when we want to convey our emotions. In fact, words can even be our downfall in certain situations. What do we use when we have no words? One of the most commonly used ways is through music. Music serves as an outlet to express our feelings and just escape from the trying times we might be facing. . Unfortunately people within the education system are starting to wipe out music from any and all forms of…

The concert that I attended was the music at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Saint Cloud on November 15th. This concert featured the Saint Cloud State University concert choir, chamber singers, women’s choir, and men’s choir. The concert was primarily vocal with some instrumental features. The genre of this concert was mainly a concerto. The type of ensemble that this concert featured was chamber music. The historical era that was represented throughout this concert was the 20th/21st century. One…

consider it an important American contribution to the world of music. Jazz is viewed today as a musical genre that was pioneered by brilliant African-American musicians, silently rebel against American society, and jazz is considered a unique, American musical creation. When jazz music first originated in New Orleans in the early 1900s, very few people in music culture appreciated it as music, many called it a barbaric form of music, and thought it should be quickly eliminated, because it didn’t…

Beethoven’s innovation’s through his lifetime has impacted the classical music remarkably. His genius can be traced down through all his compositions. Unlike Mozart and Haydn, Beethoven’s keyboard works are considered if not majority, but most important works of his compositions. These 32 sonatas have been written over 40 years from 1782 to 1822. Although he was a great orchestrator and composed significant orchestral and chamber works, he used…

Music on Monday by Phillip O. Paglialonga Concert Review I attended Phillip Paglialonga’s performance on September 12th. I was really glad that I am able to enjoy the music after a day of study, especially on Monday. It was my first time attending this Monday recital session at Squires, and I am hoping to attend more because of the high quality this performance. Beginning with a classical string quartet with the clarinet, I was attracted by the ensemble of the first violin, the second violin,…

percussion), Stanley Clarke (bass), and Joe Farrell (flute) Jazz is a music style with its origin stemming from the black communities living in the US in the twentieth century. Jazz has musical styles from European music, as well as the brass and stringed instruments. It is a mixture of US and Europe music culture. Like its origin, Jazz-Rock fusion is the epitome of the characteristic of Jazz that always combines with other kinds of music and finds its own way to refresh the original style.…

Elements of Music: A Closer Look In our everyday life, sound surrounds us almost constantly. With a simple walk to the mailbox, our ears are exposed to a number of sounds. Such as birds chirping, car horns blaring, neighbors laughing, and leaves scrambling. What causes theses sounds, though? How do we interpret them? Espie Estrella, a music education expert, states that sound is created when an object vibrates. Estrella continues by explaining that our ears sense these vibrations and send them…