Trombone

The musical selection that I chose to listen to was the opening and finale of the third act in Die Walküre (The Valkyrie). Richard Wagner composed this piece in the mid 1850’s and made it part of The Ring of the Nibelung which was a series of four operas performed in four straight days. During the opening of The Valkyrie I listened to what is known as the Ride of the Valkyries. This piece’s leitmotif was very repetitive and had a high energy. In addition the range of the dynamics were…

Throughout the past few decades, our music taste, along with our society, has developed into an expressive community. People of all ages have been using music to express themselves for thousands of years. The 1920s, as well as 2000s are prominently known for their groundbreaking new sound. The two were ferociously popular in their time, but how can two genres, each with a different sound, be so popular? The purpose of the composer, instruments used and the sound produce, are vastly different…

The performance of this piece was conducted by Leon Botstein and included the use of the following instruments: 3 flutes, 1 piccolo, 2 oboes, 1 English horn, 2 clarinets, 1 bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, 1 contrabassoon, 4 French horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, 1 tuba, timpani, percussion, 1 piano, 1 celesta, 22 violins, 8 violas, 8 cellos, 6 double basses, and solo cello. The performance lasted approximately 19 minutes. The piece transitions between adagio and andante and the violin stands out as…

around the 3 minute mark , the beat speeds up slightly, as if to suggest tribulations or a slight sign of hope and light amongst the gray tone that has been present for the majority of the song With the help of a steady, high-pitched beat of the trombone and cornet, there is a the suggestion of the establishment of a new routine, one slightly more comfortable and upbeat but still dreary However, the spike in beat plateaus back into its original,…

Ever since the greats, such as Beethoven and Mozart, classical music has been a staple in society as “real music”, but some like Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews prefer a different beat of the drum, or in this case blow of the horn. Some art historians say that jazz had its start with Buddy Bolden and his first band in 1895. Others think it was the more well-known Nick LaRocca with his Dixieland Jazz band, and their premier record Lively Stable Blues. Either way jazz started near the 20th…

Jazz music is basically an old slow music style. Jazz music is played with a combination of instruments such as, jazz drums, piano, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, guitar, and bass guitar. They usually play this music in places like restaurants, hotel, clubs and Sometimes in white churches. When people sing jazz, it is advisable for women to wear professional long dress,dress shoes or an a old fashioned cloth. For men is admirable to wear dress cloth too. Most of the time when sing and playing…

director was Jen Siukola. The saxophone personnel consisted of Jacob Melton, Luke Fries, Kendell Fowler, Logan Neher and Andrew Campbell. The trumpet personnel consisted of Connor Freimuth, Dylan Abbott, Sean Alvarez, Jake Hostetler and Conor Fox. The trombone section was made up of Noah Wendt, David James, Aaron Locks, and Bryce Chiddster. Chandler Boyd was on piano, Ryan Mondak was on Guitar and Daman Hyde was on drums. Daniel Sitler and Mitch Borkowski were on…

The mood that conveys the story is what draws readers in. The suspense, the passion, the way the book makes readers feel about the situation is helped with the mood. “ Whole pitful of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolo, and low and high drums.”(The Great Gatsby, paragraph 2). This passage gives the feeling of excess, with the only the rich being able to afford the orchestra of such extravagance. “The cars from New…

On Friday September 30th at 7:30pm in Weill Hall I watched the show called “A Concerted Effort.” The show was a collaborative effort between Jerome Fleg’s Santa Rosa Junior College Orchestra and Alexander Kahn’s Sonoma State Symphony Orchestra. The Sonoma State Music Director Alexander Kahn gave the introduction. Kahn in his intro explained how he collaborated with Jerome Fleg’s Orchestra for years. Khan also named each of soloist’s performing in the show. He mentioned how each of the two…

In my first couple of days as a freshman at Absegami High School, I was filled with unrestrained excitement, arrogant confidence, and erroneously believed that high school would be a cakewalk. That being said, it didn’t take very long at all for reality to kick in. High school, was not a cakewalk, and proved to be difficult beyond imaginable. Classes were time consuming, challenging, sleep was virtually nonexistent, and extra curricular activities devoured any extra time I wanted to save for…