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“Observe Music 1.9” 1. What is making the sound? a. Is there more than one instrument playing? Yes and no. There are brief times when only one is playing and each has a point when it is featured, or at least highlighted by the gentleness of the others while one crescendos. b. What instrument(s) are playing? Piano, flute, Oboe, trumpet, bass, cello, French horn, timpani, violin, trombone, bassoon, clarinet, and piccolo. Having watched I now actually recognize the sound of an Oboe and have…

Movement 1 - Allegro non troppo & un poco maestoso Allegro, meaning somewhat fast. Usually 120 to 160 bpm. Non troppo, meaning not too happy sounding, kind of sad. Un poco maestoso, meaning to be played a bit stately. Maestoso means stately or majestically. The main theme is a strongly played passage, with the full orchestra. The main theme is played in various forms throughout the first movement. During the end of the first movement, there’s a call and response section between the Horns…

When you read music, you read it off what is called a staff. A staff consists of four spaces and five lines. On the four spaces and five lines are notes. At the beginning of the staff you will always see either a Treble Clef or a Bass cleft. Each indicates what and where the starting note will be when you are reading your music. On a Treble clef, the line that it wraps around will always be G. When you look at a note that’s anywhere along that line, it’s always a G. Now, with the Base cleft it’s…

Aerie is a well known lingerie for women by American Eagle. Aerie first started in the year of 2006. This initiated a line of undergarments for women between the ages of 15-25. In early spring 2014, Aerie launched their newest campaign of the time, “Aerie Real”. The purpose behind this campaign was to discontinue using supermodels and digitally retouching its models to start encouraging self-body positivity. And through this abrupt change, “the company has shocked the fashion industry through…

Mozart’s Fantasy No 4 in C Minor. One of the tasks we received on Haydn’s Symphony No 45 in F# Minor was to complete a tabular analysis. For this, we had to identify the bar number, the section of the movement, the thematic/motivic content, the key signature, the harmonic progressions of exposition and the instrumentation in a structured table which shown below. Bar no. Section Thematic/motivic content Key Harmonic progressions of Exposition Instrumentation By completing this tabular…

In his emotive lieder In der Frühe, Hugo Wolf utilizes key center discrepancies between piano accompaniment and the vocal line, lack of clear cadential motion, and quick-tempered movements through various tonal centers for the purpose of demonstrating the emotional complexity of a lost man struggling to find purposefulness in his daily life. Throughout his lieder, Wolf declares a key clearly with the left hand of the piano outlining the tonic triad; however, as soon as the vocal line enters,…

Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz” is a poem that contradicts itself as a whole many times. When reading it, there are two contrasting ideas that can be visualized. He uses certain words that are playful while also using words that have a clearly negative connotation to tell this story between a father and son. Other times, there is ambiguity in the phrases he chooses. Even the rhythm of the poem can have different meanings to different people. It all depends on which words stand out to the reader.…

Charles Ives is one of the famous American Modernist composers. He was born in 1874 and he composed many compositions until he died in 1954. He was born in Connecticut as a son of Army bandmaster. He began to compose at 12 and he became an Organist at 14. Although he was not famous during his lifetime, he is very well-known as his unique compositional styles. His compositional style combines American popular and church music tradition. The Church music traditions of his youth with European and…

Ludwig van Beethoven Pianist, Composer (c.1770-1827) This paper will focus on the structure, form, and compositional techniques of Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op.21. Beethoven was a German composer and the predominant musical figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras. He was widely considered the greatest composer of all time. He was an innovator, widening the scope of the sonata, symphony, concerto and quartet, and combining vocals and…

I attended the concert of Surcari presented by Maxwell Shepherd Concert Series on Thursday, November 10, 2016, at 7:30 p.m. The venue was the University of Connecticut Greater Hartford Campus. The program began with Vientos del Sur, which is traditional Bolivian song that translates into South Winds. The sheer energy of that first chord from the acoustic guitar marked the beginning of a night of beautiful cultural music. It opens up with the quick strumming of the acoustic guitar and later…