...Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the symphony W.A Mozart was the first great composer who writes the music for the piano, and he wrote many different kind of music like symphonies, operas, solo concertos, and chamber music. Mozart composed forty-one symphonies from which "Symphony No.25 in G Minor K.183" and "Symphony No.40 in G Minor K.550" are most popular one and written in G minor. Mozart was from the mid classical period and wrote pieces which included multiple themes in a single movement. Mozart was brilliant composer in the true classical style and succeeded to satisfy the desire of his musical connoisseurs even though of the classical era’s rigid constraints. "Symphony No. 25 and 40," both have similar first, second, and forth movements...
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...Professor Dewey Music 1306 Concert Critique #1 I have never been personally a fan of the romantic orchestra music but going to listen to a concert live is breathtaking. I attended the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra, Masterpieces concert with music director Fouad Fakhouri performing Igor Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms and Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No.1 in D major. There was a full stage of musicians and a complete choir to back it up. The first half of the performance was a complete orchestra of woodwinds, strings, drums, brass, excreta and a four part choir. Overall the performance took no longer than thirty minutes to play the three-part Symphony of Psalms. This Symphony was much shorter than I was expecting. The symphony had the most soft and sweet chords following up with big, bold parts. The tempo would slow down just the slightest bit, the calm before the storm there was a bang of sound ringing from all around you and your almost startled but it is so lovely even at the volume and mixture of instruments you cant help but feel relaxed in the flow of notes. Stravinsky was born into a Russian Orthodox Church but soon left as a young man and though he was this origin he set a Latin text to his music, making it a more inclusive religious statement. Igor used the term “ Symphony” in the broadest sense, reflecting its etymology as the coming together of sounds, said to be why his orchestration is unusual. His melodies are stark and archaic, where he employs the octatonic scale...
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...Joseph Haydn was an Austrian composer during the classical music period. He was related to the composer, Michael Haydn, a friend and mentor of Mozart, and Beethoven teacher. Most of his career as a court musician was spent in the estate of the Esterhazy family. Thus, he was isolated from many composers and trends in music so that he was, as he put it, “forced to be original.” In Haydn’s Symphony No. 92 “Oxford” in G major, which was made in 1789 consists of a flute, two oboes, two bassoons, two horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, and strings. The reason for the name “Oxford” is because, in order to receive his doctorate in music from Oxford University, he agreed to conduct three concerts in response to his degree. There are four movements in...
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...composers of all time, who is best known for his nine symphonies, and his great works on piano. But his Eroica Symphony is perhaps one of his greatest, and yet most puzzling pieces. It is believed that due to the use of emotion in this work, this piece marked the beginning of the Romantic Era. The Eroica changed how people viewed music during that time period. Beethoven began writing his third symphony during the summer of 1803. He originally entitled the piece, ‘Bonaparte”, after Napoleon Bonaparte of France. However, when Beethoven learned that Napoleon was about to proclaim himself Emperor, he decided to not name it after him. When it was published in 1806, it was given its new title. The title, Eroica...
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...Concert Review 1– Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No 9 Concert realized in Berlin on “The Berlin Celebration Concert”, a celebration for the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989. The concert was realized in the same year, on Christmas day. Conducted by Leonard Bernstein, famous American conductor and composer, along with musicians from the most important orchestras in the world. Bernstein performed Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Beethoven who was Germany. This symphony is considered the greatest work from Beethoven, your most-know work and one of the greatest works from classical era. My choice was this symphony because of all history and rumors about 7 years that Beethoven worked to finish this work. Experts say that work was the first try to add a vocal in a symphony, and contain a melody that foreshadows "Ode to Joy" from Mozart. I usually listen classics music to practice sports because the emotion makes me...
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...Prokofiev began composing his sixth symphony before finishing his fifth in 1944, and then completed the symphony in February 1947. The first performance of this work was given in 1947 in Leningrad. To the listener the sixth symphony appears to be more emotionally complex and highlights more the subtlety that was not as prominent In his wildly successful fifth symphony. The Central committee of the Communist Party and Stalin’s musical authority, issued a declaration condemning the works of Prokofiev on February 11, 1948. As a result of this declaration, the sixth symphony was put aside shortly after its premier. The piece and composer were denounced for creating “anti-Soviet” art. This piece was not upbeat and enthusiastic enough for the Soviet party. These characteristics highlight the contrasts between the fifth symphony, which was received with great enthusiasm and the sixth symphony. For as long as Stalin lived and was in control Prokofiev could not regain his musical prominence in his home country. Interestingly Prokofiev died less than one hour before Stalin on March 5,1953 so sadly he never saw his musical prominence resurface at home....
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...On February 14th at 7:00 pm I went to Cordiner Hall at Whitman College to watch Walla Walla Symphony Presents: Starlets – The Women of Song. The Walla Walla Symphony was joined by the guests artists Lance Inouye (conductor), Natalie Brown (singer), Christine La Fond (singer), Vivian Scott (singer), and Joe Spraker (pianist). The women performing are professional singers from Las Vegas. The orchestra was arranged like a typical classical orchestra. However, the music being played was contemporary popular culture songs that had been rearranged to fit a classical style. From the very first note, I was captivated with the performance. The music was arranged so beautifully. It was amazing hearing songs that I was familiar with played in a new...
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...3-8 Romantic 1817-1827: The establishment of new forms and a personal style which was much more Romantic on paper and in feel. Symphony No. 9 7 Beethoven is known as the developer of the symphony. His extensive development of musical material, themes and motifs usually by modulation resulted in his works being very long and expressive. He also continued to expand the “development” section of his works, adding not only length but also substance.8 This essay will set out to discuss the aspects of the symphony that Beethoven developed with regards to: the programmatic aspects of his symphonies, which instruments he used/added to the symphony (instrumentation), the structure of the symphony, his use of forms and how he used his instruments (orchestration). Programmatic aspects of his symphonies Programme music is purely instrumental (without words) music which is based on an extra-musical stimulus and a programme symphony is a symphony which has a programme. The whole work usually has a subtitle and sometimes each movement has a subtitle as well.9 Programme elements can be seen in Beethoven’s 3rd Symphony (Eroica) which is associated with the concept of heroism, his 5th Symphony which can be seen as an overcoming of his fate (deafness) and the 6th Symphony (Pastoral) which has a subtitle for each movement.7 Beethoven said of his 6th that the “work can be perceived without description”, because it clearly has depictions of bird...
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...The word symphony is derived from the Greek word symphonia, meaning "agreement or concord of sound” and was often used in the place of the word consonance. Earliest incorporations of the word symphony began during the Baroque era. For most of this period, the terms symphony and sinfonia were used for a wide range of different compositions, including instrumental pieces used in operas, sonatas and concertos and were usually part of a larger work. By the 18th century, the opera sinfonia (Italian overture) had a standard structure of three contrasting movements: fast, slow, fast/ dance-like. It is this form that is often considered as the most prevalent of the orchestral symphony and the terms overture, symphony and sinfonia were often seen as...
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...The Florence Symphony Orchestra performed their concert called, Polish-French connection, on October 17th 2016. It was performed at the Francis Marion University Performing Arts Center in Florence, SC. They are an orchestral ensemble which consists of many string instruments (Violin and Cello), Brass (Trombones and French Horns), woodwinds (Flutes, clarinets, and oboe), the keyboard instruments and the percussion. They performed the works of Frédéric Chopin and his Piano Concerto No.1 in E Minor Op. 11. As well as Camille Saint-Saëns Symphony No.3 in C Minor OP. 78. Overall the musical choice and sounds were marvelous, and the performers themselves played very well and executed the music and sounds of each arrangement and movements perfectly....
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...There are many popular composers whose music has made a great impact on the way that music is created, performed, and listened to all around the world. Each composer has their own unique methods that they used to create their pieces. The composer and musical piece that I will analyze is "Symphony No. 3 Eroica" by Ludwig van Beethoven. This piece of work focuses on various themes and elements that help portray it into a symphony. To further explain his musical piece, it is important to do an in-depth search on the piece's background, characteristics, and key elements. Beethoven was a very talented, dedicated, and hardworking German composer. "Widely regarded as the greatest composer who ever lived, Ludwig van Beethoven dominates a period of musical history as no one else before or since" (Knapp & Budden). Beethoven wrote "Symphony No. 3 Eroica" at an emotional and hard time in his life when he was in the early stages of going deaf. Writing musical pieces like this symphony are...
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...Analysis of Excerpts of Representative Composers In 1930 Igor Stravinsky wrote the piece Symphony of Psalms, which he intended to be of great contrapuntal development. Three movements comprise the work, each one including some polyphonic writing. Undoubtedly the second movement is the most highly contrapuntal; it is set as a double fugue. Figure 2.8 shows an excerpt that pertains to the exposition of the second movement of Symphony of Psalms, measures 1-19. Although some scholars argue that the formal aspects of this movement are not strictly fugal, the exposition follows the traditional procedure of a fugue. The four subject entries are spaced evenly with the exception of the third one, which appears two measures later. The first answer appears on the dominant key accompanied by the countersubject in measures 6–10 followed by two measures of new material, developed motivically from the last two bars of the subject. In measure 13 the second answer appears on the original key with a variation of the countersubject on flute 1, and new contrapuntal material on the oboe. Finally the third answer is exposed in measure 18,...
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...Program notes are generally used as an element in the application of both classical and contemporary music. The purpose is to provide historical and background information on the piece and in some cases details about the composer. It also allows the audience to retrieve some sense of what to expect when listening to the work that is being offered. The reaction that I received in regards to Beethoven Fifth Symphony, First Movement; was that I immediately noticed the very catchy but strong opening that was displayed in my ears. In the beginning it was as if there were knocking on a door or someone running through a dark corridor of some sort. Then later there was light, then heavy repetition that went on along different levels and style etiquette. The program notes allowed me to understand the piece just a little bit since I can not read music quite well. I did notice very briefly, the flats pattern that was orchestrated in the music. The specific details that was overlooked if I did not have read the description beforehand, was the strong inspiration of what Beethoven held during that era. It was as if he had a lot to say and it was started to build up inside. If I were to described this piece in one word it would be “moving”. The reason for which is because it gives one a desire to become motivated. I would not have described this piece by Beethoven any differently. Mr. Downes' description of the message was very true and I agree 100 percent on his commentary...
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...I chose to respond to Symphony No. 5, I (opening) because this is one of my favorite pieces. When I was little my mother would play this song almost every single day. It is one of the most popular pieces by him and in the classical genre. Although Beethoven’s symphony No. 5 is classified as a classical piece it really pushes the borders on the genre of classical music. Symphony No. 5 was composed by the German composer and pianist Ludwig van Beethoven between the years 1804-1808. The first performance of symphony no 5 was in 1808 at Theater an der Wien in Vienna Austria. A lot of people who know of classical music can tell this piece from any other music because the Symphony No. 5 has a very distinctive four-notes opening, which is short-short-short-long...
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...Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550, completed in 1788, is arguably one of his most popular works. It is one of only minor symphonies composed by Mozart, and is commonly referred to as the “great G minor symphony.” The theme of the opening movement is instantly recognizable, even by non-musicians. The second movement features a largely contrasting work in Eb major. This lengthy andante movement is entirely in 6/8 time. The piece features many instances of accompaniment ostinato in both the upper strings and horn. This can be seen within the opening page of the score. The first 4 measures feature a melodic line for string bass while the violas and violins have an eighth note ostinato. Then in the following measures...
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