Music Concert Report (Park Concert)
Angela Luong
MUS27A SEC 001
06/29/2014
Paper#2: Difference Between Modern Music And Classical Music
My experience in listening to two hours of Classical Music was rather relaxing and selfrelieving. To explain the majority of the classical music that I listened to, most of them uses either: piano, flute, horn / french horn, drums, triangle, cymbal, violin, cello, clarinet, or xylophone. In some songs, I notice the instruments used are much more simpler: french horn, piano, violin, fiddle, harp. An example would be
Henry Purcell – Ayres for the Theatre. T he piece creates a picture for the listeners to visualize the Medieval era setting, and a storyline that represents the “Dark Ages” era with sad and also happy tones. The french horn, cello, violin were mainly used for the song. Compared to Beethoven or Mozart, Henry Purcell’s composed piece had less melodies and instruments being played, usually in the form of a homophony (and sometimes polyphony on chorus). Tempo and style for some olden classical songs was usually slow to midslow, predictable, and simple. As the era progresses decades later, Classical music varies in many forms, tempos, textures, melodies, timbres, harmonies, and use of instruments. A more modern, progressed piece compared to Henry Purcell’s is
Peter Tchaikovsky – Swan Lake
ACT 1 Waltz.
Many things were going on in most progressed classical pieces, such as this one.
Usually, pieces like this are in the form of polyphony, because there’s so many melodies going on at once, with multiple instruments playing together. In this piece, the instruments being played are: flute, oboe, cello, violin, clarinet, piccolo, many horns, and triangle. The piece’s theme of the piece is giving a “magical” feeling while listening to it. I’d usually hear pieces like
these in most Disney princess movies. The setting of the piece was set either for the era that had ballroom dances (I could just picture people in formal wear, dressing
MUS27A SEC 001
06/29/2014
Paper#2: Difference Between Modern Music And Classical Music
My experience in listening to two hours of Classical Music was rather relaxing and selfrelieving. To explain the majority of the classical music that I listened to, most of them uses either: piano, flute, horn / french horn, drums, triangle, cymbal, violin, cello, clarinet, or xylophone. In some songs, I notice the instruments used are much more simpler: french horn, piano, violin, fiddle, harp. An example would be
Henry Purcell – Ayres for the Theatre. T he piece creates a picture for the listeners to visualize the Medieval era setting, and a storyline that represents the “Dark Ages” era with sad and also happy tones. The french horn, cello, violin were mainly used for the song. Compared to Beethoven or Mozart, Henry Purcell’s composed piece had less melodies and instruments being played, usually in the form of a homophony (and sometimes polyphony on chorus). Tempo and style for some olden classical songs was usually slow to midslow, predictable, and simple. As the era progresses decades later, Classical music varies in many forms, tempos, textures, melodies, timbres, harmonies, and use of instruments. A more modern, progressed piece compared to Henry Purcell’s is
Peter Tchaikovsky – Swan Lake
ACT 1 Waltz.
Many things were going on in most progressed classical pieces, such as this one.
Usually, pieces like this are in the form of polyphony, because there’s so many melodies going on at once, with multiple instruments playing together. In this piece, the instruments being played are: flute, oboe, cello, violin, clarinet, piccolo, many horns, and triangle. The piece’s theme of the piece is giving a “magical” feeling while listening to it. I’d usually hear pieces like
these in most Disney princess movies. The setting of the piece was set either for the era that had ballroom dances (I could just picture people in formal wear, dressing