3. Name of ensemble(s) performing: Albuquerque Youth Symphony included string ensembles of the Violin, Viola, Cello, String Bass, and. The Woodwinds Ensemble included the Flute-Piccolo, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon; Brass Ensemble included the French horn, Trumpet, Trombone, and the Tuba. As well as the Percussion ensemble. As well as a Keyboard ensemble the Harp…
Henryk Gorecki has an extremely rich artistic work, but the greatest popularity has brought to the composer’s the Third Symphony “Symphony of Sorrowful Songs.”…
Bartok left two major concertos unfinished: the Third piano concerto and the Viola Concerto. The former was complete except for the orchestration of the last seventeen measures, but the latter required much more extensive work. The manuscript for this unfinished work was given to Bartok’s friend and informal student Tibor Serly, who reconstructed the work and prepared it for publication. The first performance was given on December 2, 1949, in Minneapolis. The work has become a staple in the orchestra repertoire and has enjoyed great popularity with audiences for over sixty years. However, musicologists and critics…
Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from “West Side Story”, Copland’s “Appalachian Spring” and Nielson’s “Symphony No. 5” all utilize different symphonic techniques to create 3 beautiful pieces.…
In the winter and spring of 1893, while in New York, he wrote his most popular work, the Symphony No.9 "From the New World". Receiving an invitation from his family, he spent the summer of 1893 in the Czech speaking community of Spillville, Iowa. While there, he composed two of his most famous chamber works, the Quartet in F "The American", and the String Quintet in…
Due to this, the Americans anticipated Dvorak to help “pave the way” for an “American” musical style. Taking this change to heart, this initiated Dvorak’s “American” phase, which created his Ninth Symphony "From the New World," the String Quartet #12, the cantata The American Flag, and the String Quintet in Eb. His first performance was the premiere of Te Deum, produced in Carnegie Hall. Homesickness in Dvorak’s soul, however, collided with financial advantage and high artistic purpose. Taking summer vacations to the Czech-speaking community of Spill Ville, Iowa, helped a little, but his desire to return to Prague grew. Wishing to return home, Dvorak wrote almost as many works celebrating his native country as those that hymned the New World: for example, the Te Deum and the cello concerto; one of the best for the instrument. In addition to, Dvorak became more and more interested in streamlining classical forms. He had entered a so-called second nationalist phase during the 1880’s, in which Czech folk elements are fully absorbed and put into use of Dvorak’s formal experiments. As stated on www.classical.net, “The image of Dvořák as some spontaneously musical "holy fool" doesn't hold up in the presence of scores full of formal sophistication. The cello concerto, for example, provides a heroic part for the cellist without burying him in the orchestral…
While in the New York, the conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra commissioned a piece. This piece was "Concerto for Orchestra" in 1943 which included many pentatonic collections of notes. At the same time that he was composing this piece, he was battling leukemia. This battle was seen in the mood of the piece.…
Stravinsky's Symphony in E Flat Major (1905-1907) was his first piece picked by Rimsky to be performed in private and…
Beethoven had arrived in Vienna in 1792 to study composition with Haydn. Mozart and Hayden were the two most influential people on Beethoven’s musical style. In comparison Haydn and Mozart, Beethoven had a later start to writing symphony music at the age of…
Antonin Dvorak began composing during a time when nationalists from many states were attempting to have music of their own. The world relied heavily on Germanic music for a long time, so composers were being tasked with trying to create new music for the non-germanic states. Dvorak was among these commissioned. His compositions were best known for being able to create a national style through the use of folk songs. The pieces he wrote, that incorporated the folk songs of the Slavic people, gave him much fame. This gave him the recognition he needed to be commissioned to try and create a national style for another nation, the United States. He was given a job in New York where he composed his 9th Symphony, the New World Symphony, his most popular work. This paper will discuss the events in Dvorak’s life got him the job and influenced the New World Symphony.…
Berlioz was known for his use of large orchestras, often made up of more than 1000 performers. The use of giant orchestras is a development of the romantic period. Leonard Bernstein describes the symphony as “”the first musical expedition into psychedelic because of its hallucinatory and dream-like nature”; this is very unique to a piece composed of this period. Berlioz composed music that represented his lively imagination. Freedom of form and design was also a key aspect of the romantic period and Berlioz’s symphony portrays this well. Lastly, during his five movements there is a large range of dramatic contrasts of dynamics and pitch, especially during his first movement. A dramatic contrast is also a characteristic well known during this…
It was composed in the year of 1804, but due to having several other projects he had to postpone his writing. It wasn’t until about 1808 that he premiered the song along with symphony Number Sixth in which he dedicated to Prince Lobkowitz and Count Andreas Rasumovsky. The tempo of this specific song is allegro and involves four movements. The first movement of the song has a dramatic yet potent feeling to it. It made me imagine something terrible was about to happen to someone leaving me in suspense of what was about to come. When Beethoven wrote this song he had strong feeling which defiantly showed in the first movement of this…
It was a huge accomplishment on Beethoven’s part because it was the first time anybody had tried to sync a chorus and an orchestra. “There is a well-attested story that, at the premiere of his Ninth Symphony, he had to be turned round to see the tumultuous applause of the audience, hearing nothing.” wrote in the article Beethoven, lost of hearing.…
Symphonie Fantastique is a symphony written by French composer Hector Berlioz in 1830. It is quite possibly one of the most important and representative pieces of the Romantic period, and is still very popular to this day. The first performance took place at the Paris Conservatoire in December 1830. In many aspects Symphonie Fantastique and J.M.W. Turner’s “Slave Ship” are very similar.…
opus 22. The Dvorak was in five movements lasting a little over half an hour.…