There are two parts to the piece which are the treble and bass of the piece. The bass accompanies the top line throughout most of the piece but has certain parts where it takes over the melody e.g. when the piece modulates and it goes down in a scale towards the end of the piece. The harmony of the piece is complicated as it modulates frequently. It starts off in E minor for the first and second phrases but towards the end of the second phrase it modulates to G major which is the relative major of E minor.
Overall, the second section is rather contrasting from the first section, as it has a different key for the music to build up to a couple of climaxes. PP- pianissimo which means very soft and FF- fortissimo which means very loud MELODY AND RHYTHM The melody is mostly lyrical and is played on the right hand, developed with ornaments. However, the melody moves to the left hand in section B, and plays a narrower range with notes lasting for a
Chopin uses ternary structure in the Raindrop prelude, which is a typical structure in Romantic music. It consists of the first section to the second section then back to the first section. Section A starts from bar 1 to bar 27 and section B is from bar 28 to bar 75, showing that section A is shorter. In section A, the melody is long and heard several times, while in section B, a new melody is heard mainly in the bass. The melody is played in the right hand in section A and moves to the left in section B.
The piece ends with an energetic close, dropping back down back into a dark melody as the storm passes. The second movement is Andante con moto in E major. The first part is soft and calm then changes to heavy chords in the middle. The second is a calmer melody changing suddenly to a dramatic melody in the middle. The second section was Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Concerto No.
The voice has the role of the main melody while the drum kit creates a layer of rhythmic pattern. The bass guitar creates a bass line. We can also see counter melodies being played by the melodic instruments while there are chords being played by the synthesizer and accordion to give it a background feel. Instrumentation The piece uses both folk and pop instruments. For example, the synthesizer, Wurlitzer piano, bass guitar and the drum kit is used.
The two composition are significant among Brahms other works as they stem from a period in Brahms life when he just embraced the beauty of color and sound of the clarinet. In addition, the two sonatas were the last chamber pieces Brahms composed before his death. He notably prepared an oft-performed transcription of the sonatas for viola, and altered the register to suit the instrument. While at his Bad Ischl retreat in the summer of 1894, Brhams completed the two sonatas. The two sonatas were reportedly first performed for Duke Georg and his family privately in the September of 1894.
Later, the strings came in as an accompanying section along with the guitar playing chords. After the English horn finished the melodic solo, Mr. Williams played the melodic line, which is almost identical to that of the English horn. Mr. Williams’s solo was very melancholic, yet uplifting. Both the soloist and the orchestra were very sensitive to harmonic changes and drama during the movement. The cadenza was very impressive musically and technically.
Stravinsky has re-written this music for woodwind with many contrapuntal counter melodies. In bar 11, the horn part could be described as ‘sighing’, and in bar 15, the bassoon has glissandi written in which are very unusual timbres, especially considering this music was once for solo keyboard. The final four bars before variation one are exactly as Monza wrote them, only re-arranged for wind. Variation 1 starts with the first horn
Briefly describe three contrasting techniques of improvisation; using examples from the three jazz set works you have studies. One highly common technique of improvisation is chromatic alteration throughout solos where notes outside of the chord are used in order to extend the harmony and add tensions to the chords. For example blues notes are used in all three set works. The use of the flattened 3rd and 7th are particularly noticeable in the clarinet counter melody in the 4th chorus of Hotter Than That. There are also blues inflections in the vocal and guitar duet where the flat 3rd is emphasised by bending the notes at the beginning of phrases.
The Lowest Instruments Bass instruments provide a rich harmony to a music piece to accompany the melody played by numerous higher-pitched instruments. Each family has at least one instrument that usually plays the harmony in music pieces, whether it is an opera, a symphony, or a march. Though there are differences between the tuba, the bassoon, and the double bass, the three instruments share some things in common with each other. The bassoon, the tuba and the double bass all produce low sound, but each of them are made with different materials thus the sound is also different. The bassoon is made up of wood, particularly sugar maple wood, while the tuba is made up of brass with some nickel.