Edvard Grieg was born July 15, 1843 in Bergen Norway, At 15 he attended the Leipzig Conservatory in Germany to study music. There he was exposed to the music of Schumann and Mendelssohn, who greatly influenced his style. Four years later, he emerged as a full fledged musician and began composing. It was at age 25 that Grieg composed one of his most famous and celebrated works; The Piano Concerto in A minor. The As the thunderous rolls of the timpani and the fortissimo A minor chords began this composition I could feel the confidence, power, and energy radiating from it. Throughout its duration, the piece held an air of power and energy, even during the slow, legato sections. I thought it was quite interesting that for being only 25 years old, Grieg was able to exude such confidence through his composition.
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All throughout the piece I could not stop “conducting.” I felt this need to be apart of the music in some way and the “conducting” helped me do that. The piano trills also made it intense and made me feel a bit on edge but not really in a bad way. I just felt like I had this bottled up intensity that I needed to express but I could not get out; Hence the “conducting.” The varying tempos added to the energy and also made the piece interesting and unpredictable in a very good way. While it was unpredictable it still had a form and an obvious melody so everything still made sense. This composition was also incredibly dynamic. It went from soft to loud very quickly but in a surprisingly smooth way. I do not think there were many, if any times the transitions from loud to soft or soft to loud were jarring or rigid. The dynamicity also made the piece very interesting and kept me on my toes. I enjoyed the lack of dissonance in this piece. When there is a lot of dissonance in a piece I do not usually connect to the piece or enjoy it very much and I kind of push it
Over all this piece was energetic and full of energy it brought both drama and diversity of melodies and harmonies. I really enjoyed the entire concert and I thought the music was well performed. I would however have liked there to be more compositions included in the concert covering a broader range of Mozart’s quartets and piano concertos. I think that more pieces being played would have allowed for more comparisons to be drawn between pieces and allowed for the listener to enjoy more of the great music that Mozart has to offer.
The mood of the whole concert was very positive, emotional, and inspiring. In many of his pieces I could feel the emotions proclaimed in them. The whole atmosphere of this concert was very relaxing and peaceful. I could really tell throughout Pablo’s performance that he is very passionate about playing the cello. I also liked how Pablo would explain after each of the pieces the meaning behind them. I was very inspired by this whole entire concert and I really enjoyed hearing the cello being played
It wasn't until the second time through that I watched closely to what was going on and attempted to grasp the message that was being conveyed. It begins with a man in a black robe singing to a group who appear to be his peers until a woman and another man appear. They sing to one another and appear to be declaring their love for one another while he watches. They eventually leave and he is left to alone and appears to be heart broken over their appearance. Then the couple make there way back into the act and are accompanied by many others who sing for the couple as a dancer in a red gown entertains them. The couple then drinks together until the man in the gold robe gets a letter that angers him and he rips it up. From them on the couple seems to converse back and forth until the entire group joins them and act I is finished. The piece seems very dramatic and the remaining acts I'm sure would not disappoint. The conductor does a very good job at keeping the opera lively and convey the overall tone of what is happening very
Edvard Grieg is thought of in the music field as a symbol of Norway. He was born in Bergen, Norway on June 15th, 1843 the fourth of five children. Music interested Grieg from a young age and at the age of six he began piano lessons with his mother. His mother, Gescine Hagerup, was known as the best piano teacher in Bergen and led him firmly, but lovingly into the music field.
It is full of romance, chaos, and excitement, all at the same time. This piece also takes lots of skill to play because it is so unique. The piece also has broad appeal. It is different from most classical compositions, which makes it something that stands out to the audience, and makes it something that they will listen to. Another thing that this work is filled with is emotion, variety, and imagination.
Ludwig van Beethoven was born in the town of Bonn, Germany on December 16 of 1770. Bonn is located in western Germany on the Rhine River. Beethoven showed an affinity for music at an early age. His father, Johann, taught Ludwig to play the piano as well as the violin. Johann did this in hopes that his son would become a prodigy, and then reach fame like Wolfgang A. Mozart. Unfortunately though Beethoven mother died when he was seventeen. In addition to his mother’s death Beethoven’s father developed an alcohol problem. To escape these problems Beethoven found a job tutoring the two children of the von Breuning family. This relationship proved to be beneficial to Beethoven. The matriarch of the family happened to be well liked in the town of Bonn, so she introduced Beethoven to a few important people.
Throughout this piece there was stop time breaks which tended to last for about four beats, while the bass player continued to play along to the beat. Every musician had a solo throughout this piece of art. The pianist played on the beat to where his left hand was giving the ‘oom-pah’ and his right hand doing the comping. There was not much of and expression in the pianist compared to the Josh Holland playing trumpet, Andrew Venet playing bass, and Ryan McDaniel playing drums. There were no blue notes being played, this song was just playing behind the beat. Lastly, this piece tends to have a long vibrato throughout this piece of work.
The first song played was from a genre that I had previously taken a test on, Sonata. The musicians played the song by the book. There were three movements and polyphonic texture. It was even fast and jerky. Nonetheless, this is the part where my rollercoaster was going down. In my opinion it was boring. Although very well played, the song itself did not interest me. I did not like the roadrunner, coyote essence of the song. The piano accompaniment would sometimes play the melody and let the clarinet follow and then they would switch. This to me seemed force instead of like the Sonatas that I listened to in class. However, apart from the musical aspect of the first piece there was a certain intensity expressed by the performers. I had never seen a
Born in July of 1882 in New York, Hopper grew up interested in art and encouraged by his parents. After attending both the Correspondence School of Illustrating in New York City and the New York School of Art, Hopper experienced a shift in interest from illustrations to the fine arts1. While studying with the impressionist artist William Merritt Chase and the realistic painter Rober...
Overall, the score was beautiful and appropriate, adding suspense and mystery at all the right times. The sound effects added psychological flavor to the story without drawing too much attention to it.
The last Piece of the program was Symphony No1. In g minor, op7 (1891-1892), features the work of the composer Carl Nielsen (18...
The sound was perfect in every stage and paralleled the characters behavior and/or attitudes. The choice of music and color really helped set the mood in each stage. The dark cloudy colors signified that the journey for the immigrants wasn’t going to end well, which creates a psychological effect on the
17 marks a turning point in Prokofiev’s compositional techniques. As I stated earlier, Prokofiev mentioned that he purposely tried to apply some innovative experiments in Sarcasms; these experiments are applied in the harmony, rhythm and meter, piano figuration, and the texture of Sarcasms. During this period, Prokofiev remained on the edge of the modernist movement, edging closer through inclusion of many new compositional techniques in his works. The dramatic contrasts in the piano figuration of Sarcasms include the dynamics, different textures, and inventive harmonies. The contrasts are extreme and whimsical, unlike other pieces that were composed earlier, which are markedly more similar to early experiments that tested the limitation of harmony, rhythm, and structure.
..., intensity, and length. The entire movement had a feeling of rising to a maximum point which could not be surpassed. In the third movement the flute and the piano played together and played nearly the same thing, with the exception of the flutes higher notes. This to had an increasing in intensity and tempo.
Beethoven was born in Bonn Germany. At 14, he held the occupation of a court organist. Sadly, his father was a drunken singer, and barely supported his family. Consequently, the money Beethoven earned assisted his family. In 1778, he traveled to Vienna and met Wolfgang A. Mozart who instantly acknowledged his brilliance. However, on account of his mother’s illness, he returned to his home town, and had to support his brothers after her death. He gave music lessons in Bonn, in addition to playing the viola in the theater orchestra. Settling in Vienna in 1792, he studied with masters such as Joseph Haydn. He appeared as a pianist and gaine...