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The chant melody is from the setting of the Gradual Viderunt Omnes from the Mass for Christmas Day. The original piece features a soloist that performs the psalm verse which alternates with a choir that sings the respond. This verse is extremely ornate, and the respond is also very melismatic. It is the only part of the Mass for Christmas Day that is in mode 5. Because of its highly melismatic nature, it was viewed as an appropriate candidate for future composers to base new works off of with…

direct a major Symphony Orchestra the Los Angeles symphonic in 1936, the first to have an opera performed by a major opera company, and the first to have an opera performed on national television. One of his greatest creation was the Danzas de panama. The Danzas de panama was departed from traditional practices by making an attempt to approximate the sounds of native instruments. There is a touch of Caribbean color in the four symphonies. The first and last are African in origin, probably…

concert, I would consider the performance to be more of an informal concert. The conductor came on stage and tried to engage the audience because the music was supposed to tell a story. John Gordon Ross, the conductor, informed the audience which instrument was…

songs. After Men’s Choir, Bel Cantos and their Choir Clinic, which I was a part of, got up and sang “Pink Panther” and “Loosin Yelav”. Following those songs, Bel Cantos sang “I Have a Voice”. Then Rocky Mountain got up and sang “Gloria” and then “A Musical” with the Bonnevaires. The final two songs were sung by Bonnevaires. These pieces concluded the “Mid-Winter Concert”. The concert had many great aspects to it. There was a wide variety of music, from humorous to elegant to forceful. Each…

As Kathrin grew up, she had many musical impressions from her surroundings and hobbies. Some of them I will get into in the main points of this essay. In this essay I will be looking at Kathrin’s musical identity’s evolution out from the traditions she was raised with, and acquired through her life and also the sense of how the musical influences affected her then and now. I will also be looking at different repertoires as examples to further my explanations and evidence to how Kathrin was…

“Human Shaped Objects” The show of electronic music that I attended was Telemetry music series featuring Rob Mackay, Human Shaped Object, Grand Banks on November 9th at the Bridge progressive arts initiative. The concert began with Rob Mackay’s performance. He is a composer and a sound artist and a Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Hull. He has received numerous accolades and awards internationally. The music he played explored repetition and was very interesting. However, the…

Why Suya Sing, a musical anthropology of an Amazonian people, is a book written by Anthony Seeger. Anthony Seeger is a professor, ethnomusicologist, archivist, anthropologist, and record producer. The title “Why Suya Sing” portrays the general idea of all ethnomusicologists, which is to further understand music in its cultural context (“What Is Ethnomusicology?”). Seeger is also the director emeritus of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. The author tackled field research for the book at Mato…

for its mocking and almost uncertain sound; the aggressive taps of the xylophone and accompanied by the flute and cello undertones. These exchanges continue until the cello leads the orchestra into an aggressive climax. The flutes drive the other instruments into a spiraling set of tone shifts, while the brass proclaim long, lonely notes beneath. This climactic moment is concluded by a sharp and sudden boom of the drum, which continues to pulse, repeated for a short while after. The Largo closes…

Having minimal background of classical music before starting this class made me a little nervous for attending our first concert. I wasn't sure what to expect. I’ve never really listened to much classical music besides the group, The Piano Guys. However, while attending The Temple for the pipe organ demonstration recitals I was mesmerized. First, I am not from the Kansas City area so I had never heard or saw this Temple before and it was gorgeous. Second, Jan Kraybill played the pipe organ with…

perfecting my tone, the repetition of phrases to perfect my rhythm, all led up to my hope of performing a faultless solo. As the conductor nodded his head and the the phrase the band behind my played escalated, the first notes spoke from the wooden instrument I grasped in my shivering hands. The F, E, G, A, C, resonated around the auditorium and boomed off the sound beams back into my determined mind. Without hesitation, the melody streamed out of my oboe like a graceful butterfly, soaring…