The Reflection Of Western Music By Henry Purcell

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Western music has traditionally been around for many era`s. Music was composed to entertain the society of all kinds, or narrate an emotion and express one`s emotion through the composition of sounds and vocals. The composer that I have chosen to reflect and also provide an analysis on is Henry Purcell. Firstly, Henry Purcell was brought up in England, where he became one of England’s best composer of the entire Baroque era. He has composed all forms of musical pieces, some which were included in Shakespeare’s play opera as well as a coronation. He was the organist for Westminster Abbey. It is stated that, Purcell was an ambitious composer who incorporated newer defined pieces with old historical ones, to allow the balance of the originality …show more content…

In keeping their vocal chords in between the minor and major scale, creating a subdued harmony, it is easily distinguished how the first part of the composition, we can hear the violins’ gradually keep their tempo in a relaxed but yet happy momentum. From 00:00 till 4:31 We can identify what the strong bass being played right after the violinist end their notes, I fee like this was included in the composition to help the bass player to solidify the violinists ends and its sound my profound it at the endings only. The second part of the music composition is played in A-Major, in this part of the section the composition takes a more harmonic but longer interval with an upbeat turn. Here the momentum picks up in certain phrases, making the listeners get excited. When I was listening to this part, I was able to disguising the anticipation of the coronation. It felt as though, I was physically witnessing the coronation of James II occur. The way the musical composition is played is highly soothing and remarkable because at the start of the second section, the composition starts of with a melody that has a long tempo which ends to start up gradual

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