Oddly enough, the concert took place in an average college lecture room, Ward Hall, where I would never expect a classical concert to take place. Fortunately, this didn't hurt my overall experience of the concert. Because the venue was somewhat small and could only hold around a hundred people the audience didn't consist of any more than thirty people. As the four men walked out the door to the front right of the room the audience silenced and the concert began. Selection #1: “Sicut Cervus” - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Tempo: The tempo in this song was just below average.
What impressed me primarily was its combination of instruments. Tenor saxophone was in the front line of the band, which controlled the leitmotifs; bass and keyboard accompanied the main melody, and they were in charge of theme sometimes; drum and congas belonged to rhythm section, which were responsible for meters. In addition, a bamboo musical instrument called clave enriched the performance that played a strong beat. These are all typical instruments of jazz music. It seems that there was no need to use two kinds of drums in one band; however, since players showed us different timbres of these instruments and performed alone, each drum sounded thin, flat and unmeaning; in contrast, when these two tones mixed, it resulted a “magic reaction” in music, which was full of energy and great passion.
Section A is played in 3/2 time and is tonally ambiguous until bar 33 where the bass plays an E. section A is played in E minor, however it could also be described as Aeolian on E as there are no D#’s. Section A begins monophonic with guitar 1 playing an ostinato, building up to a four part canon and syncopation. The live guitar starts playing the first 3 notes of its ostinato, which is built upon to the complete ostinato in bar 6 by note addition. In bar 7, guitar 2 enters. In bar 10 guitar 3, which builds up to its full ostinato in bar 15 by note addition and in bar 16 guitar 4 enters playing ostinato 1 but displaced by 2 ½ crotchets.
You could easily tell that the dynamics were well enforced during rehearsal because when they played there was great dynamic differences throughout the piece. They had a very warm tone even though it was a fast piece of music and warm tones are more associated with slow pieces, Each band tuned individually and as a group before they played each of their pieces so that most likely helped in the aspect of tone quality. Throughout the concert I noticed that each
It was disjunct with very small intervals. The big differences in the music’s range made it resemble a conversation between two people with very different voices. I was not expecting the ending to come, especially because it was very abrupt with no warning. I felt as though I was caught off guard the whole time, and so I was not a big fan of this piece. The second piece called Volume was only performed by two men, the previous conductor and another performer on the Steel pan drums.
The shows doesn’t have a slogan or nickname just its title of Blues By The Bay. -The program showed mostly Blues. Most of it sounds the same, so the style was very obvious from the beginning, but quiet enjoyable for Blues enthusiast. The style was unique in that all the songs were the same rhythm and from the same time era.There was no acts from local groups,
As the piece continued, the very fast and powerful tempo gave way to more tranquil music and a much slower tempo. After this slower tempo continued for a short time, it went right back to its initial tempo and intense demeanor. It appeared as if the performers enjoyed the piece they were playing, I could feel a sense of enthusiasm and that I had not before. The best way I could describe this piece was that it seemed like an unsure setting, very suspenseful with uncertainty. The third piece in my opinion was the most unique of all.
In Jazz music, each member of the band is given an opportunity to play a solo, to express his own identity as a musician, showing how he is unique from the other members of the band. However a proper soloist doesn’t completely separate himself from the band. If the musician solos without regard to what the other members of the band are playing, his solo will ruin the message that the band was expressing and he will not be identified as a member of the band, but rather a lone musician playing his own song. Invisible man often finds himself being recognized for his collective identity. When he expresses himself in order to be recognized for his individual identity, he expresses himself as a soloist rebelling against his band’s music would, separating himself from the group.
Carousel music usually revolves around only one or two musical ideas. In ‘Artizan 48 key band organ’, the piece revolves around only one theme, which is repeated twice. This is also prevalent in the ‘Berliner Karussell Orgelmusik’ as well as the ‘Wurlitzer style 165 military band organ’, which contain only one musical idea, taking on the form ‘AA’. Repetition of material is very common in carousel music. Although “Money go round” is in the form of ABCB, and includes a somewhat bridge, part B, there is a lot of repetition and recycling of music material in each individual section.
They can range from very low notes to very high notes. The last sounds that make up the woodwind section is the flute. The flute is very different from the two, it is a very soft instrument that blends in with the band and most the time it cannot be heard unless the flute soloist has a solo. The finally primary sound in a marching band section is the percussion section. There are three sections that make up the percussion section.