Musical instruments

chamber music. The composer wrote it for a ballet; however, the musicians of Diablo Valley College played only musical composition without ballet performance. The Library of Congress was the first place where the musical work was performed and had a great success. However, the DVC chamber orchestra also performed this composition well. It was an excellent performance which…

a suite. There is a wide mixed bag of instruments (aerophones, chordophones, and membranophones) utilized as a part of this piece. Around the wind instruments (woodwinds and metal) heard were bassoon, oboe, French horn, and trumpet. The strings played incorporated the violin, viola, cello, and twofold bass. At last, the percussion instrument utilized for this piece was the timpani. This…

mixture between songs from the albums Revolver, Magical Mystery Tour, White Album, and Abbey Road. They had a band that consisted of many vocalists, and instrumentalists and also, an orchestra with many members who played a variety of different instruments. Some of the pieces that I’ll be going over are “With A Little Help From My Friends”, “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”, and “She’s Leaving Home”. All of these pieces were written…

On Saturday, May 7th, 2016, the University Wind Symphony held a farewell performance in the Meng Concert Hall. Jean Ferrandis, a flute player and Bill Cunliffee, the pianist were two faculty artists of the night’s concert. The performers were elated to show off the songs they have worked hard on as a group. The show consisted of a variety of songs from classical, jazz, and mash ups of popular songs that entertained the audience and represented how well the orchestra worked together to create the…

As I grew up, music was there for me at ever juncture of my life’s journey. When I was an anxious kid moving to a new area in elementary school, it offered me a release from stress and a way to bond with other students. Even without any shared tangible experiences with the other kids, I could relate to them through singing tunes of the popular music of the time. I listened to about 60 songs on my first-generation iPod Nano when I was alone in my room after school, and the consonant, uptempo…

Composer, arranger, and conductor William Grant Still was born on May 11, 1895, in Woodville, Mississippi. After his father, a university professor, passed away before he was born, his mother, a successful teacher, moved the family to live with Still's grandmother in Little Rock, Arkansas. Not only did his family value literature and music, but his childhood home was filled with the sounds of his grandmother singing spirituals, which seems to inspire his honorary career. In 1911, Still enrolled…

As I sit here fumbling over what to write about and thinking about all of the memorable moments in my life, One memory stands out from the rest. The first time I ever played the cello was breathtaking and I can remember the day clearly as if it was yesterday. The cello added to the quote I’ve always gone by “All things begin small some grow into something bigger and same fade away as if they never existed”. The start was small and steady but the product of it was astonishing and important.…

With new methods of composition came new ways of conveying emotions in dramatic settings. Musical rhetoric can be identified in terms of articulation of form, text declamation, and text painting by studying the scores of Monteverdi’s Orfeo and Lully’s Armide. Orfeo contains several examples of musical rhetoric in its various forms. For example, m. 12 displays form articulation with a shift in instrumentation to theorbo. The basso continuo section that follows is an example of simple recitative.…

booklets about them and their culture. As you walked into the auditorium the seats were actually filled with people more than I expected. The audience was dressed regular since there was not a dress code. On stage were the bands seats with the instruments they would play beside them. The background was a bluish theme color setting the mood of the music. The composition I like best was the second piece they played. I couldn’t really hear the name because they had a strong accent but I did…

The University Jazz Combos concert did not focus on formality the way I originally believed it would. Instead of walking into a concert hall to see the performers dressed in black, already set up, and just finishing tuning there was a shocking amount of color, styles of dress, and a flurry of movement. My experience from the last concert lead me to believe that a recital would be just as formal and put together as a symphony performance. In fact, the entire atmosphere of the recital hall was…