Music Appreciation Concert Critique #1 As we approach the concert hall strolling along Michigan Avenue, the air is filled with moisture and a heavy fog is hanging around the concrete jungle as it does most fall evenings near the lake. There is a mystical, mysterious feeling. I am drawn into the symphony and discover the night's mystery will continue with Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust. Hector Berlioz has always intrigued me, perhaps a part of my soul identifies with his longing to find truth and convey his messages in a way that resonates on a deeper, more personal level with his audience. From the curtain pull it was apparent this was not going to be only a symphony.
Vivaldi wanted to respond to public demands, but also he wanted to bring something new, something that will have a great effect on music listeners. Writing the spectacular group of four concertos “Four Seasons” in 1723, Vivaldi helped listeners to understand music at a new level, to smooth the transformation of auditory perception in a complex image, adding each picture a literary image. The violin concerto “Winter” is composed in ritornello form, combining the small string orchestra and one violin soloist in three movements. The first movement has a lot of tension representing, probably, a winter snowstorm. It begins with the orchestra playing a dissonant chord to each beat thus creating a crescendo.
The taiga is found throughout the high northern latitudes, between the tundra, and the temperate forest, from about 50°N to 70°N, but with considerable regional variation. The winters in the taiga are very cold with only snowfall. The summers are warm, rainy, and humid. A lot of coniferous trees grow in the taiga. The taiga is also known as the boreal forest.
Significantly, within his musical career, he developed his own distinctive style and sound which cannot be compared to the music of today. Dylan’s primary objective was not to entertain and bring rise his own fame, but his poetical power in speech and song gave meaning to the beautiful and tragic events of the early twentieth century which shaped our country. The cold Minnesota wind in the town of Hibbing, Duluth was heavily filled with rock and roll as well as rhythm and blues. Robert Allen Zimmerman was his birth name and he had taught himself the basics of the guitar and the harmonica. After attending the University of Minneapolis, he found his true pride in American folk music while having read an autobiography called, Bound for Glory (Dylan Influences).
Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky wrote many pieces of music but found his love in soft classical pieces. Although he lived a life that was not always classical, such as his homosexuality and his ill-fated marriage, he did make classical music come to life. The 1812 Overture was not his favorite piece but it is one of the most famous works that is associated with him. In his life, the elements, and the meaning of the piece, the listener can get a better insight of how Tchaikovsky came to get his fame. Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky was a brilliant composer, composing such pieces as Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, and 1812 Overture.
Page |1 How and to what extent does Stravinsky combine Russian folk music and Western music styles in The Rite of Spring? INTRODUCTION Igor Fyodorvich Stravinsky (17th June 1882 - 6th April 1971) is an established and distinctive composer, pianist and conductor. Of the three great qualifications he posses, Stravinsky is widely acknowledged as a radical composer and musical revolutionary of the 20th Century, flaunting stylistic diversity in his works and constantly challenging the boundaries of musical design. Stravinsky was born in Lomonosov on the Gulf of Finland. His father, Fyodor Stravinsky, was a celebrated principal bass singer in the St. Petersburg Imperial Opera at the Mariinsky Theatre 1.
During the absence of his wife he composed “you lean against a silver-willow”. In 1911 he was offered and accepted a teaching position in Berlin, there he composed his most influential work, Pierrot Lunaire. In 1915 he again returned to Vienna, where for about five years he didn’t compose any music, instead of composing he was trying to find a
Irving incorporated the mythological characteristic of setting his story in a past and remote place in “Rip Van Winkle”. He set his story in a small, distant village underlying the Kaatskill Mountains. The mountains themselves seem to have a mysterious, magical quality about them that is stated in the passage “Every change of season, every change of weather, indeed, every hour of the day, produces some change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains. When the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed in blue and purple, and print their bold outlines on the clear evening sky; but some times, when the rest of the landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of gray vapors about their summits.” This shows the reader that the setting of the story is mysterious as well as remote. The village itself is described as small and old.
The storm would still be raging, but much like my attitude the song reflected not as much fear of the storm, but fascination. As the song ends from 2:01 to 3:22 the storm seems to almost subside, then picks up and ends abruptly as if I fell asleep on the couch watching the storm, which I so often did. The musical concept demonstrated most in “The Four Seasons: Violin Concerto in F minor L’inverno (winter)” by Antonio Vivaldi was the balance between ensemble and solo known as the violin concerto. A violin concerto is a kind of solo piece which features background string ensemble, paired with a soloing violin. This violin is the main voice in the piece, but the string ensemble playing the harmonies seem to add depth to the
This field is said to be active and frequently interrelating with the solar wind and channelling plasma into Mercury’s surface from the sun. The chemicals captured from the solar wind include Hydrogen and Helium, which help create Mercury’s extremely thin atmosphere. Scientists would argue that there is ‘no’ atmosphere on Mercury at all. The little amount of gas found on Mercury is trillions of times thinner than the gasses found on earth, and would not be able to be detected without exceptionally sensitive equipment. Although very thin, Mercury’s atmosphere is made up of trace amounts of gasses including 42% Oxygen, 29% Sodium, 22% Hydrogen, 6% Helium, and 0.5% Potassium.