The San Luis Obispo Farmer’s Market occurs every Thursday night in downtown San Luis Obispo and offers a wide variety of musical options for every customer to listen to and enjoy. These options range in style and intensity and allows for a wide range of individual flair, musical elements, and enriching listening experiences. One of the many styles of music at the market was a four-man drum band. This band played very rhythm based music and had an almost improvisational feel to their music. They would start a song and then let the music guide them from melody to melody. The drummers also played their own individual melody which resulted in a polyphonic piece and a perfect example of surface rhythm. Each performer’s own melody, although different individually, combined to form one melody and rhythm that permeated throughout the performance. The music, which was primarily in quadruple meter and ranged in tempo from andante to allegro, was also very happy and consonant sounding with no feelings of instability. This consonance was due the music being percussion music with no …show more content…
The speaker would play the background harmony and rhythm for a song and the violin soloist would play the melody of the piece. Although only one instrument was performing live, the piece as a whole was polyphonic due to the speaker providing the additional parts of the piece. The piece that was being played when I was listening was at an allegro tempo and consonant in tone and was also an instrumental cover of a pop song. The soloist himself was also a Cal Poly student which added an element of familiarity to the piece and also made the music and performer more relatable to me as a listener. It also helped that the song he was playing was a familiar and popular song which added to the relatability and overall enjoyment of the
1. Music is a strictly local expression, rich in variety since each culture expresses affective differences through art, 2. Music is a poetic process--complex, vague, and irrational--based upon borrowed traditional musical materials (melodies, rhythms, forms, etc.), 3. Music is for a religious, elitist-class performer who can understand and appreciate its mysterious nature and power, 4. Music is played softly in intimate gatherings, 5. Music making is the activity of Everyman, exacting the talents of variously trained amateurs who, with industry and practice, decorate their recreation and leisure in moments of social intercourse.
The concert I attended was a Junior piano recital held at The Florida State University College of Music in the Dohnanyi Recital Hall. The pianist was Kaisar Anvar. The pieces performed were:
I chose to do my concert critique on Eric Clapton-MTV unplugged full concert-HQ January 16, 1992 at Bray Film Studios in Windsor, England. Eric Clapton is my favorite rock n roll singer which has a mixture of genres. The concert was inside and on stage. The audience was seated up close to the stage which made the atmosphere comfortable; Eric and the band showed much warmth and connected with the crowd it wasn’t like the band was untouchable.
The event I attended was “An Evening of Jazz” concert held at the Fine Arts Hall on November 17 at 7:30 p.m. The performing groups were The Santa Fe Rhythm and Blues Review, The Santa Fe Jazz Combo, and Santa Fe Big Band. The event was to for me to understand, experience Jazz music and know the instruments used.
...xcited to have this experience. Part of the drama of the concert at first is felt when the musicians come in and sit down and begin tuning up their instruments. I would not be able to comment on the performance of the orchestra. During the performance, I seen the audience were moving with the music, but I felt like that everyone seems knows more music than what I learned throughout this semester. After I went home and did some of the research on these music I finally understand why these people like to attend the orchestra concerto, it was because that every piece of music has a history behind it. The Los Angeles audience seemed to me to be people who know music and who will listen to something new in a respectful way. All the same, when the more familiar sounds of the last piece were heard, I could feel a little sense of relaxation and fun coming into the room.
On Tuesday, October 17, 2017, I attended a musical concert. This was the first time I had ever been to a concert and did not play. The concert was not what I expected. I assumed I was going to a symphony that featured a soloist clarinet; however, upon arrival I quickly realized that my previous assumptions were false. My experience was sort of a rollercoaster. One minute I was down and almost asleep; next I was laughing; then I was up and intrigued.
On Friday November 15, 2013, I attended a concert that I found very interesting. It took place at 7:30 pm at the First Presbyterian Church of the Covenant. The group performing was the Erie Chamber Orchestra but as a special the Slippery Rock University Concert Choir was also there.
The performance includes the use of PVC pipes to beat big drums, catching marshmallows in their mouths, and the Captain Crunch snack challenge. They used body language and positioning to get their idea’s across. My only problem with the performance is that I am not sure the sound it produces can be considered music. The Blue Men do not talk or sing so the music is mostly percussion with background singing and music. The music composed has strange rhythms with varying pitches throughout. Of the music included in the performance it was mostly percussion. To make the sound of percussion instruments it seems the Blue Men use whatever they can find or whatever is lying around. For example, PVC pipes are used to beat the drums making a very unique drum beat. The addition of paint to the drums also changes the sound of the drum. Besides the use of drums the Blue Men also used their bodies to make sound. For example, the sound that is made from chewing Captain Crunch or marshmallows is used. The sounds in the Blue Man Group Performance can be best described as noise or a very primitive type of music. During the performance I felt as though I was in a thunderstorm with the crashing crescendo’s. It is an undoubtedly entertaining performance, but is lacking in regard to the musical
The musicians were able to keep time by taping their feet, listening to the piano and drums play a steady beat, and along with a lot of practice beforehand. When it comes to the meter of the piece I noticed that when each musician was playing their part in the song the rhythmic structure would change. When the trumpet player and saxophone player were playing together the beat was steady and loud, but when they were playing separately the sound was not as loud, but the beat remained the same. Each instrument created a different feeling to the music, even though they were playing the exact same part.
On Thursday night of Parents’ Weekend at 7pm, I went to the Farmer’s Market, located in downtown San Luis Obispo down Higuera Street between Osos and Nipomo Street. Many food stands, local businesses, and live entertainment were set up outside on the sidewalks, which were blocked off to cars. It ranged around 3-4 blocks long, with barbeque stands on both ends. Many students, families and children attended, creating a large crowd a people. People walked up and down the streets, browsing for food and other things to buy. It would be a good public place to people watch and observe a crowd’s behavior at night, as opposed to daylight. I was also curious to see how differently vendors and local businesses interact with patrons in an outdoor setting as opposed to in a storefront. It would be interesting to see if and how different social identities came together and performed in this laidback, informal, vendor-style setting. As a main attraction here in SLO, I wanted to see how the atmosphere and the people in the town contributed to making this a successful weekly event.
The Los Angeles Philharmonic Classical Music Concert Report. I attended the Los Angeles Philharmonic classical music concert at the Walt Disney Concert Hall on Friday 29 November 2013. The classical concert started at 8:00pm to the enjoyment of the huge audience that had been waiting for this amazing music extravaganza. Classical music concerts always offer magnificent entertainment and the audience in this concert was expectant to derive such entertainment or more. In attendance were Christian Zacharias, who was the conductor, and Martin Chalifour, who was the LA Phil commanding Principal Concertmaster and Bach violin player.
The final and twelfth piece was made up of excerpts from a longer work called Five Short Pieces for Clarinet and Bassoon. To me, maybe because the concert was beginning to get long or maybe because I did not have many notes over it, the last piece seems fairly similar throughout its movements, or “Short Pieces.” The first was an up-beat piece with a distinct melody. The clarinet and bassoon alternated, with the clarinet playing the higher notes. The second movement had a have complete feel to it. The two instruments played at the same time, close to it. The third movement was an impressive sounding mix of ups and downs. It seemed that the performers were working very hard and it sounded very complex.
Dr. S.K. Saxena (2012, p. 2,3) in his book, ‘The winged form’, describes rhythm as being a material that is “doubtlessly distinctive, and autonomous”. He refers to rhythm as being mnemonic syllables that aim at seizing the manner and character of sounds produced by striking instrumental drums in specific ways, meaningless syllables seeking to be formal analogues of actual sounds (Saxena, 2012, p. 4). Saxena (2012, p. 2) points out that rhythm is autonomous due to the fact that in India, solo rhythmic recitals can still be heard in main music
If someone were to ask people ever wanted to see almost every artist from any genre of music in one place? Of course, anyone would say yes, because most people haven't been to an event like the huge one that happens in California each year. This is an event many people save up all year to attend just maybe once in their life time. The Coachella Music and Arts Festival, it is one of the most talked about festivals that this generation knows about. It is like a whole new world for most people each time they attend.