Orchestral percussion

recital hall, which is located in their art building. The recital hall was a good sized room, not to big or small. It started at 7:30 p.m. and ended around 8:40. The orchestra concert was conducted by Eugene Dowdy, a music professor and director of orchestral studies and conducting at UTSA. It was a tremendous performance filled with very talented and brilliant people. I absolutely loved this concert. The UTSA Orchestra performed some famous masterpieces by Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)…

IMRO are an organisation set up to copyright the music of their members. IMRO’s role is to promote their member’s music and look after the royalties involved in the music industry. Some examples of who they represent are music publishers, composers and songwriters. Three functions of IMRO: • IMRO copyright’s the music of their members, which usually consists of a music performance. IMRO want to protect the work of their members both nationally and internationally. The money earned through…

happy emotions, while low-pitched sounds are perceived as calm, sad, and thoughtfull emotions. The type of instruments used can also make a contribution to one's emotional state. Piano is usually an introspective highly emotional instrument, while percussion is dynamic and determines the pace of acton. String instruments create background sounds that have been widely used in movies, that’s why they have a great power to create mental images associated with film…

throughout the musical of Wicked as it is reintroduced and reused many times throughout even being joined with lyrics. This first introduction of this melodic line provides a sense of hope as it distinctly juxtaposes the first theme of chaos. The percussion no longer provides the sense of disorder but is used to echo and emphasise the story that the orchestra is portraying. At 1:01, the melodic line ascends as the stage lights come up and the cast begin to sing at 1:08. The topic in which the…

It was composed in 1906 and has been mated with “The Unanswered Question” as part of “Two Contemplations”, “Central Park in the Dark” displays numerous characteristics that can be considered or treated as “typical” in Ives’s work. Ives layers orchestral textures on top of each other to create yet another texturally rich song with a poly-harmonic atmosphere. Within this atmosphere Ives brings together the different segments of the orchestras in a clashing and contrasting manner (i.e. the eerily…

Orchestration addresses how the combination of specific instruments in the orchestra come together to create a unique, overall sound. Composers and musicians learn ways to combine sound and to develop a conceptualization of orchestral sound. In orchestration, examples from past literature are studied and scrutinized in order to learn about effective ways to combine sounds. Counterpoint Creating parts that work together and create independent melodies is essential to music…

equal division of orchestral instruments and is no longer mainly string dominated. The invention and improvement of valves and keys made the brass and woodwind instruments more flexible. Conductors really relied on the brass and woodwind instruments to make the music more emotional and to create the effects needed for the music. Composers started to write more parts for percussion instruments to make the music more exciting. As you can see in fig.1, more woodwind, brass and percussion…

op 26” by Max Bruch was played by the orchestra , this was also the piece where Danielle Belen played as a violin soloist; the second piece was played as a concerto. “Become Ocean” by John Luther Adams was the last piece and it was played as an orchestral piece. All the three pieces were played brilliantly by the orchestra Despite the large size the orchestra they were still in perfect synchronization. Furthermore, the orchestra fittingly received numerous standing ovations from the…

strings, woodwinds, brass and the percussion sections. For the third piece, the piano and the harp were also added to the orchestra.…

On Friday, October 9, 2015, the Moore’s Opera House presented a performance by the Wind Ensemble. The Wind Ensemble consisted of many wind instruments as well as six percussion players. The program offered six different pieces. All musical compositions included different dynamics and tempos; as well as each piece having its own genre to create an entertaining orchestra concert. The first piece that was performed was the “Rocky Point Holiday” (1996) by Ron Nelson. In the introduction, the piece…