Bryan Symphony Orchestra The Bryan Symphony Orchestra, a member of the LEAGUE OF American Orchestras, performs in Wattenbarger Auditorium, the concert hall of the Bryan Fine Arts Building on the Tennessee Tech University campus in Cookeville, TN. This season was the orchestra’s 49th. The venue had two levels and had seating for around four to five hundred people. It was a sold out show. In the Bryan Symphony Orchestra, the was Franz Schubert’s Symphony No.
Both of the pieces also had different purposes, the Handel was written as a celebration for the king. Whereas the Mozart was written to showcase the development of the Horn at this time and also to show the virtuosic abilities of Leutgeb. Handel uses a generally large orchestra containing 2 oboes, a bassoon, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, violin 1, violin 2, viola and cello and bass. Whereas Mozart uses 2oboes, 2 horns, a solo horn, violin 1, violin 2, viola and cello and bass. Although Mozart uses a solo Horn, both pieces have the strings as their main body.
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.
MUS 250 Music Appreciation Concert Evaluation Form Name of Student: Ruochen Wang Featured Artist(s) or Group(s): Purdue Bands & Orchestras Genre of Music: ___Orchestra____ (e.g. classical, country, jazz, etc.) Instrumentation: Flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, bass clarinet, contra bass clarinet, alto sax, tenor sax, baritone sax, trumpet, horn, trombone, euphonium, tuba, percussion, violin, viola, cello, and bass Date of Concert: Saturday, November 23 Location of Concert: __West Lafayette, IN__ (city, state) Venue of Concert: _________Playhouse, concert hall_____ (e.g. concert hall, outdoors, etc.) Quality of the Sound: ______Excellent_________________________(Excellent, Good, Fair, Poor) Comment: The Loeb Playhouse is wonderful.
Coupled with glorious harp interjections, the music cause me to tear up in joy. This doesn't last long, however, the horns begin to play and Faust has moved to another part of the plain, where an army passes. The bassoons and English horns are used to play the military march. Part two has Faust in Germany. The movement begins on a sympathetic note.
The two sonatas were reportedly first performed for Duke Georg and his family privately in the September of 1894. The two sonatas were written in F minor and E-flat major, corresponding to the two clarinet concertos by Weber (Swafford, 1997). Significance of the Study Given the significant contributions of Johannes Brahms’ compositions and music publications, several studies have been conducted on his composition styles. The current study similarly seeks to understand the differences between the viola and clarinet versions as published by Brahms, particularly focusing on the distinct characteristics of the two instruments. The study introduces new dimensions to the extant literature by exploring alterations that Brahms made for the viola and the sound of identical passages which can be expressed differently according to the instrument.
Two main examples include: * Symphony: a sonata for orchestra * Concerto: a sonata for solo instrument and orchestra However, the term ‘sonata’ is not to be confused with the imperative ‘sonata-form’. An amazing amount of important music from the classical period to the twentieth century is composed in this form (also known as sonata-allegro form). Structure A piece of music written in sonata form
How does Stravinsky create Unusual Timbres through Innovative Instrumentation? In his Pulcinella suite, Stravinsky uses musical material by older composers and manipulates it to create his own version. One way that he uses to do this is by using unexpected or unconventional instrumentation, getting progressively more innovative through the suite. In the Sinfonia, Stravinsky uses music from a piece by Gallo and uses his music in the first violin and cello parts, with the original viola line moved around the orchestra more. Gallo’s piece of music would have had a fourth instrument (i.e.
The piece is bitonal in places. The A section is in D major and the B section modulates to C major. This song is for a male solo singer and an extended theatrical orchestra. The theatrical orchestra consists of 5 woodwind, 2 horns, 3 trumpets, 2 trombones, 7 violins, 4 cellos, In addition, he used a drum-kit, two other percussionists, piano, electric and acoustic guitars, saxophones, a mandolin and celeste. Also uses of Latin-American instruments – castanets and maracas to reflect the Puerto Rican gang.
One innovative aspect, commented on by Bartók in his programme note for the first performance, was the way he saw the whole orchestra as generating a constantly changing concertino drawn from the various orchestral sections, so that while the brass, for instance, may have the spotlight for a period, there is no individual virtuosic part, and the rest of the orchestra plays the ripieno part; thus, it is novel, yet reaches back in time to the concerto grosso of Baroque times, as do the canon and fugato sections of the development which I will look at later. A