Tempo

He wrote To Dust, which was the first piece played. To Dust was a relatively short piece, nearing four minutes in length. O’Dell went into great detail explaining not only the rhythm, tempo, and other musical aspects of the piece, but also its history and reason of existence. He mentioned that it was a reference to the Dust Bowl and all the struggles Oklahoma faced during this time. O’Dell mentioned that the rhythm was greatly influenced…

Sweet Child O’Mine by Guns N’ Roses The song became really popular until the current time because it has the best guitar solo of all time. This song was recorded during 1987 from the Appetite for Destruction album of the Guns N’ Roses that was released on the 17th of August the same year. Then, they made it as a single and was released on August 17, 1988, in the US, while in the UK it was released on May 29, 1989. The band who made the song was the Guns N’ Roses, they are an American rock band…

form. Therefore, it contains the sections: exposition, a bridge, development, recapitulation, and coda. Movement I begins with the lower string section playing sweetly and smoothly, possibly representing calm seas while sailing to the new world. The tempo and dynamic soon changes to a much faster and louder sound, which is the introduction of teme I, which may represent the harsh seas encountered while sailing to the shores of the new world. This ends with dissonance in the string section,…

The rhyme scheme in the first stanza goes a, b, a, b. In the second stanza it all is the same c, c, c, c. And the third stanza it goes d, e, d, e. The rhythm is constant and has a regular flow, the expression of every note is on tempo and the melody is the same after every line because even though it’s not a human figure playing the instrument it has its own feeling of making the sound through the device. The meter of the poem is describing in a regular tune, that compares in a…

vi. Tempo control – Slatkin has great tempo control. He uses his hand to indicate that he is slowing down, and the orchestra was very responsive. c. Expression i. Facial expressions– Slatkin is a very expressive conductor and his expressions fit the mood of the piece. During…

try it out. The song was had to audition for was Irish Medley. I personally was thinking sweet only one song, but little did i know irish medley had 3 different song in it, with a lot of repeats. I got the music and while I was practicing at my own tempo the music was actually pretty easy. Everyday I would play the song at the beginning and the ending of orchestra and twice when I got home. I perfected all out of tune notes and made sure I had the right bowings. At school my other friends who…

only be talking about those two. The first section set the initial theme for the rest of the piece. It started very fast in tempo, then slowed down, and then sped right back up. However, the part of this section that I enjoyed the most was the beginning. It instantly woke me up out of my seat and made me focus on the music. Its use of staccato, leaps, and fast tempo created a very dense and dissonant texture and my ears were always waiting for the piece to jump back to the tonic. This kept…

The tempo for the introduction of the first theme, Rachmaninoff indicates minim=66. However, in his two recordings in 1924 and 1929 he performed at minim=47-51 for the introduction and minim=80 (1924) and 81 (1929) for the first theme. The introduction is much slower and the first theme is much faster, and the latter definitely does not go back to the initial tempo. The tempo that Sviatoslav Richter chooses to perform in 1959 is much slower in general, which is at minim=48 for the introduction…

Walking into the auditorium, I immediately noticed that the atmosphere of the concert was completely different from that of the classical concert I attended weeks earlier. To begin with, it seemed like there was much more of an audience. Everyone seemed excited for the concert to start. As for myself, I was also excited because, on the very front of the program, it said that there was a guest artist that was going to perform with the ensemble. The performers wore more of a business casual look,…

The piece I selected was “Tout est Perplexe,” from the soundtrack of the Japanese animated film, Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo. I selected this piece because it shows a dynamic internal contrast between a mild, lingering sadness and overwhelming depression. The piece starts of softly, with a single instrument playing most of the melody. Moreover, the melody itself is in the minor key, giving the music a sad quality, and it moves upwards in scale in a conjunct manner, so the music does not…