The movement opens with a dark melody in the bass, followed by a soft flowing melody. The music speeds up and intensifies, leading into energetic and stormy melody. Then, a waltzing and dance-like theme begins, growing livelier. The development follows, based on the first theme, but with thundering basses and in a massive tempest combined with moments of calm. The piece ends with an energetic close, dropping back down back into a dark melody as the storm passes.
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.
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.
Bernstein uses 3-beat ostinato to set a breathy and excited mood. Jazz Harmonies, Syncopated Rhythm & Tritone are all used in this piece. ‘Something’s coming’ has a jazz harmony. The chords in this piece have blue notes, this creates a swingy, jazzy feel to the piece and makes the piece a happy, up beat song. The piece is bitonal in places.
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.
Bourrée Johann Sebastian Bach Bourree was written by J.S. Bach who was born on 21st March 1685 and died on 28 July 1750 which was when the Baroque period ended and the Classical period started. Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist who wrote pieces for orchestras, soloists and choirs. He is one of the most famous composers in history and wrote many famous pieces such as Toccata and Fugue in D minor for Organ and the Brandenburg Concertos. The piece Bourree is a movement from the Suite in E minor originally written for Lute which is one of seven suites.
The second movement of Beethoven’s symphony No. 9 starts with a short loud distinct open with the strings and timpani. Then a soft fast melody is played by the strings and gradually gets louder as different parts of the orchestra join in with the strings then flutes and the contrabass with a steady under beat and then the brass joins in. Now the whole orchestra joined in playing a unified beat they build up very loud with the timpani joining in then it gets soft for just a few seconds and cuts back to the sharp melody with different parts of orchestra going back and forth as if having a conversation. There is a contrast of soft and melodic with fast and sharp as if teasing the audience cause the second movement is traditionally a slow lyrical movement but instead he puts a scherzo movement in as if he switched the second and third moments.
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 use of chromatic notes adds to the mood created by the minor blues chord progression. In Boplicity the blues influences are less strong although chromatic passages are still used throughout for example in Davis’ chromatic semiquaver passage during the trumpet solo. Another technique of improvisation used within the set works is Enclosure. This is where the soloist sets up the target pitch by playing a semitone above the target note, followed by a semitone below before finally resolving in the target pitch. For example in bar 27 of the trumpet solo in Hotter Than That Armstrong plays an Ab followed by an F# before landing on the G, which is the 5th of the chord on the first beat of bar 28.
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