Orchestral percussion

Heat, by Michael Mann is one of the greatest crime films every made. Based largely off the real life confrontation between a Chicago detective by the name of Chuck Adamson and the real Neil McCauley, Heat is grippingly suspenseful and tense until the very end. It tells the story of a group of professional bank robbers, who start to feel the heat from police when they unknowingly leave a clue at their latest heist. The movie is full of hidden meanings and deeper themes then what you…

oratorio is a large-scale composition using chorus, vocal soloists and orchestra. An oratorio usually is narrative text, but doesn’t use acting, scenery or costumes. An oratorio unfolds through a series of choruses, arias, duets, recitatives, and orchestral interludes. An example is George Frederick Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus”. 4. The fourth classical form of classical vocal music is an Art Song. An art song is the setting of a poem for solo voice and piano. It typically adapts the poem’s…

The History of Bela Bartok The composer that I will be writing about in the paper will be Bela Bartok. Bartok was born on March 25, 1881 and he died on September 26, 1945. He was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He along with another composer named Liszt are known as Hungary’s greatest composers. What I found really cool during my research was that he was musically talented at an early age. He was able to play 40 pieces on the piano at the age of 4. I don't know any 4 year old that can play 40…

A Musical Guide to Music Making Music is something everyone should learn to do. It is a thing that has been done over the millennia. Before digital audio workshops or DAWs one would have spent several months working on a piece and would need an absurd amount of musical training, but now you need only minimal music theory to become a rockstar. There are many ways to go about this and in my opinion they are all the right ways, but this is my way of making rockin’ jams. Bob is an average joe who…

previous Classical models. Berlioz’s work was more theatrical than for service, proving to include secular settings in a sacred frame, as he contrasted the loud and peaceful movements, and employed the use of militaristic imagery through the brass and percussion. For example, Berlioz included fanfare-like passages using thick brass voices and the extensive use of timpani to accentuate the rhythms in the Dies Irae (which would be described…

structure present in First Suite is the theme which is changed and is varied throughout different movements, there is vast contrast in between the movements but at the same time the theme shines through.The instrumentation consist of Brass,Woodwind,and percussion,cornets were still seen as superior to trumpets as evident in the fact that they had more of the melodies in the different…

overall piece, Rodeo, is a ballet, and it is choreographed with five movements. “Hoedown” begins with a recurring theme of the entire ballet, but then introduces a square-dance theme in the tonic. The timbres of the orchestral instruments are mostly cheerful and clear, but the percussion instruments seem to have more musical dominance, probing into the listener.…

time and is marked allegretto for tempo. The texture seemed homophonic, while the rhythm is march like. Some performing forces included a large orchestra along with trumpets, horns, and percussion instruments. The next piece by Mozart “Don Giovanni” continued similarly, as the melody seemed short in the orchestral intro with many leaps. The rhythm consisted of a duple meter and expressed anger emphasized by many dynamic shifts along with a quick tempo and wide range changes. There also seemed to…

“Best ten dollars I ever spent!” I exclaimed to my friend while leaving the Disney Concert Hall. On Thursday November 17th, Dr. Brand and Dr. Posegate from the California Baptist School of Music led a school trip to the Los Angeles (LA) Philharmonic at the Disney Concert Hall. There, we experienced a splendid program, including Mosolov, Dvorak, Sibellius, featuring the talented conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali and solo cellist Johannes Moser. My favorite parts of the program were the performance…

the world’s “universal language,” is something that is used in many different forms to convey various forms of emotion. For example, music can convey emotions through the usage of the film industry with the composition of film scores. Furthermore, orchestral music serves as a form of music in which emotions can be conveyed as well. Though rarely seen, music can also convey emotion to those who sneak illegal drinks, such as men and women did in the Jazz Age. Though words can fail to express…