IBM Lotus Symphony

This was my first time attending a chamber concert and I found it to be quite amusing, this concert was primarily instrumental and the type of ensemble this concert feature was chamber music. For the genre I would consider these piece as a string quartet. And for the historical era I would have to put it with romantic and twenty and twenty first century era. This was my first live concert that I’ve ever attended so is was my first time hearing a violin and a cello live. The way I would describe…

Two violins, one viola, and a cello played Joseph Haydn’s String Quartet, Op. 76, No.3 (Emperor), II in quadruple meter and in the form of one homophonic theme with four polyphonic variations. The theme is introduced by the entire quartet in an conjunct melody that has three unique phrases. The first phrase, “A”, is the first to be introduced and repeated a second time, “A-A”. Phrase “A” moves smoothly from mid to high in ascending and descending conjunct intervals and is repeated. A second…

Ludwig Van Beethoven Ludwig Van Beethoven was a German classical composer in the 1800’s. He was born into the music industry with both his father and grandfather being musicians themselves. He and his family became fairly poor after the death of his grandfather; with his father falling into alcoholism the young Beethoven had to be the one to not only hold the family together but also make enough money to take care of everyone, so by the time he was 11 he had to drop out of school to make money…

Andrew Lloyd Webber got into the show business world by being raised a musical family. His father, William Lloyd Webber, was a composer and professor at Royal College of Music, while his mother, Jean Hermione Johnstone, was a piano teacher. Even as a small child he composed his own music. His younger brother, Julian, and him would put on “shows” when they were children. Their aunt Viola would often help and later introduced Webber to theatre. Andrew Lloyd Webber met Tim Rice in 1965, and the…

In this film, the Vienna Philharmonic played Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 in E Minor “From the New World.” This piece displays the serenity of the new world, with violins and violas playing pizzicato to resemble trickling streams, the basses and cellos playing fortissimo in order to represent roaring rivers, and the brass playing in unison to signify the enormous, yet beautiful mountain ranges. Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 contains four movements. The first movement is in sonata allegro form.…

The concert I will review for my final assignment will be Ludwig Van Beethoven’s 9th symphony as performed by The Chicago Symphony Orchestra. It contains four movements: The first movement starts with hard dramatic strings, leading into a plethora of pleasant melodies and lovely consonance. An emotional rollercoaster would best describe this movement as the piece transitions from soft calming sounds from the horns and woodwinds to hard-pressed portions that are dominated by the string group.…

Berlioz was exposed to a good amount of the Romantic ideals of the time (Kelley, 2013). Berlioz attended the Paris Conservatory for school, which was one of the world's first public schools (Kelley, 2013). Berlioz would go on to write the Fantastic Symphony, a quintessential example of romanticism. With a focus on a creative artist, inferiority, the supernatural, and romantic love, it had all the makings of a Romantic masterpiece (Kelley, 2013). Unique for the time, Fantastic Symphony’s plot…

who listened to this type of music, which made him love his abstract role in it even more. He couldn't believe that Beethoven was who he had judged so violently in the past as a kid. When he describes he's first time listening to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, he says how it had a drug-like effect on him. Felsenfeld stated that he listened to the tapes in secret. The fact that he was listening to music that nobody else had hear or even known about, caused him to feel as if he was doing something…

fellow classicists, the shadows are now parting on a composer who has a just claim to recognition in his own right” (Pincus). For example, Beethoven’s symphony number twenty-six was actually composed by Haydn. Mozart had borrowed the work, but never returned it taking full credit for Haydn’s piece. Haydn wrote many works including forty symphonies. However, most were never published in his lifetime and therefore he never got the credit he deserved. Most of the time it isn’t until the famous…

Throughout history there have been many extraordinary music composers, the majority of them with a unique style and flare. European composers such as Beethoven, Mozart and Bach have gained exceptional recognition for their outstanding music, and have become some of the greatest composers of all time. However, we must also acknowledge and appreciate the art and music of other marvelous musicians. For instance, one of Latin America’s great composers born on December 31st, 1899 in Durango, Mexico…