Musical form

and fortissimo, depending on what lyric the singer was singing, when the singer sung fortissimo my ears hurt a bit and this song would have been better if sung in mezzo-soprano or if a male sung it in tenor. I was unable to determine the beat and meter; the piece sounded like it was never ending and is through-composed form because each stanza sounded different from the previous. At first the piece was non-repeating, however later on when the singer began repeating certain phrases and alternating the key (theme variation) the art song became a complete mess to me. Maybe this coordinated with the “obsessed Duke” who was distraught with himself but I was confused because why use a woman to sing about a man’s distraught…

The chords would have far leaps and was very relaxed. In this second section, B, we are thrown a lot of moments of conjunction within the chords. The bass line of the piano played with the left hand contains the majority of those conjunct chords. While the right hand plays more disjunct chords at the same time. This creates a more complex part in the song and builds up more emotion from it. 2:48 Form At this point in the song the second section begins to calm down from its intense middle. We…

psychology has benefitted from silence. Numerous avenues in mental health are strengthened through silence. Numerous experiments have been conducted to see how noise benefits the mind; however, researchers found that the greatest benefit is silence. Recently, researchers have begun to correlate how silence helps with memorization. An example of this discovery was in a 2013 experiment conducted by Imke Kirste, a duke university biologist. In this study, Kirste was examining how various auditory…

“Classical music isn 't so far apart from pop music”. From last class we made a comparison that Jay-z between Haydn and who I believe that is similar to Franz Joseph Haydn is Drake. Drake comes from a musical family, but Drake grew up with music in his blood. For example His father, Dennis Graham was a drummer for legendary rock star Jerry Lee Lewis. One thing that they both don’t have in common is that Drake before he was a rapper, came to fame by playing wheelchair-bound Jimmy Brooks in seven…

mastery of all sorts of musical types, his piano sonatas capture distinct character paired with enunciated form in such a way that is very specific to his style. Mozart’s Piano Sonata No. 9 in D major is one of 18 piano sonatas in total, all of which were written in his adult years. Sonata No. 9 of K. 311 is presumed to have been written in 1777 and contains some quite distinguishable characteristics that categorize this piece in sonata-rondo form. In this essay, I plan to make clear why Sonata…

The lady that composed this piece is actually the mother of the woman that was playing violin. I thought this was very cool and you could tell that this piece meant a lot to her. This piece is from the modern era as it was wrote in 2012. The piece itself was written to represent the landscape of Wallah Wallah, Washington. This was the place of a musical festival that she and her husband had founded. The landscape was supposed to be beautiful fields filled with golden grasses. The piece used…

period the Sonata was for one or two instruments almost always with continuo. After the Baroque period most works designated as sonatas specifically are performed by a solo instrument, a piano, or by a solo instrument accompanied by a piano. The word “sonata” was first used in solo piano music at the end of the seventeenth century. Most first movements of Classical sonatas are in sonata form, and they are usually fast. The second movement commonly provides the contrast of a slower tempo and the…

Trois mains or three hands in English by McCormick opens with a prologue of three female dancers, standing close together, then later expand by moving away showing the piece has already started. Utilizing modern and ballet techniques, the piece started out with dancers travelling across the stage, later becomes more interactive when a call and response pattern is acknowledged between the dancers from the motion of their technique. The first dancer begun with a smooth pirouette towards the other…

Music Description Langsam . Schleppend (Slowly, dragging) The first movement was in modified sonata form and started off with strings playing harmonics creating a ghostly scene and then the woodwinds play a rhythm pattern. As the piece goes on, it is obvious that Mahler is trying to recreate a nature scene in his first movement. To match the dark setting that started the movement is little bits of music that poke out. An example would be, throughout the sluggish melody an awaking would call…

Formally, the first movement of the Quintet is of considerable interest. The interest is generated not by a problem in determining the overall form, for that is clearly sonata form. Rather, it is in determining the exact location of the main sections and subsections within the sonata form. The sections which will most concern our discussion are the introductions, the exposition and the developmental section. I say introductions as plural as it appears actually be two sections of music. These two…