The symphony orchestra‚ Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev is a story based concert with a variety of instruments. Sergei Prokofiev constructed this orchestra to help teach young children about what certain instruments sound like together and by themselves. A narrator instructs the audience what instruments represent each character or mood. The concert begins with a lento and mezzo-piano type of mood because the string family starts playing first. These elements combined with the beautiful blend
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’66: for Solo Clarinet and Wind Ensemble I. Lamborghini Miura; II. Mini Cooper S; III. G.T.O. This clarinet concerto is scored for Piccolo‚ 2 Flutes‚ 2 Oboes‚ 2 Bassoons‚ Contrabassoon‚ 4 Clarinets in B-Flat‚ Bass Clarinet‚ B-Flat Contrabass Clarinet‚ 2 Alto‚ Tenor and Baritone Saxophones‚ 3 Trumpets in B-Flat‚ 4 Horns‚ 2 Tenor Trombones‚ Bass Trombone‚ Euphonium‚ 2 Tubas and 5 Percussions. The duration of the work is 13 minutes and would be a great choice of a piece to program on the first half
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emotional experience while offering a technical structure intelligent enough to sate most musicologists. This can especially be seen in Movement One of Brahms’ Third Symphony‚ where he clearly uses a specific pattern to encapsulate both of these aspects. First and foremost‚ it is important to understand that Brahms’ symphonies (as well as much of his music) fits the definition of absolute music. This is similar to composers of earlier times in the romantic
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The Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra and Fady Deeb Saturday‚ October 6‚ 2012 Lontano by György Ligeti This piece has an eerie and dissonant aura throughout the piece‚ without having much musical resolve in its sounds. The entire orchestra was included in this piece‚ except for the percussion section. These polyphonic sounds of this piece were played extensively‚ reflecting no noticeable tempo or rhythm‚ therefore creating ambiguous sounds. However‚ the dynamic range was wide enough to create
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during the classical era of music‚ but his compositions led to the end of that period and to the start of the romantic era. He helped greatly to develop tonal music. One of the amazing things about Beethoven was that he was deaf. At his last symphony‚ “Ninth Symphony”‚ he had to turn around and look at the audience to see if they were clapping. He was greatly influenced by the composers Haydn and Bach. He greatly influenced his music with the power of romanticism.  Beethoven’s father‚ Johann Van Beethoven
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Beethoven’s use of Sonata form in his 1st Symphony Beethoven‚ in common with his predecessors Haydn and Mozart‚ uses the Sonata form in the first movement of his first symphony. This was Beethoven’s first attempt at the symphonic form having composed chamber music and two piano concertos. Beethoven made the sonata form more expressive through his use of dynamics and more extreme key relations. Beethoven started this piece with a slow introduction. It is not unknown
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Set in D major with a duple meter‚ traditional ricerare-type alla breve fugue‚ with a step by step ascending and descending repeated note pattern‚ the movement has a Baroque like nature within its ornate‚ chant-like‚ modal‚ conjunct‚ harmonic and tonal characteristics. Strangely‚ “Gratias agimus tibi” does not document any sort of dynamic qualities; therefore‚ Bach has left the dynamics up to the performers to differentiate their parts in a way that reflects both the music and its text. Much of the
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Haydn’s symphony no. 94 second movement Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) was born in Rohrau. He was exposed to a lot of folk music when he was younger and this had an effect on his later style. His talents were soon discovered and at the age of 29 he started working for a wealthy family in Hungary‚ where he worked for almost 30 years. Haydn composed his works extremely quickly‚ performing two concertos and two operas weekly‚ and chamber works daily. Haydn’s compositions became popular throughout Europe
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The Moran Woodwind Quintet was on Tuesday‚ November 17. The performers included John Bailey‚ William McMullen‚ Diane Barger‚ Jeffrey McCray‚ and Alan Mattingly. Bailey played the flute‚ McMullen played the oboe‚ Barger was on the clarinet‚ McCray played the bassoon‚ and Mattingly played the horn. The first piece was called Quintet in g minor‚ Op. 56‚ No. 2. It was by Franz Danzi. The first movement was an Allegretto. It was in a major mode and in triple meter. It started with polyphonic texture
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Utah Symphony and Utah Opera: A Merger Proposal The Utah Symphony (USO) and the Utah Opera (UOC) Merger was a union that was brought forth by the leadership committee at the USO in Salt Lake City. The proposal was an opportunity to strengthen a struggling symphony with a financially sound opera company. Although mergers between opera and symphony companies in the United States had been successfully in the past‚ the merging of a two major companies had yet to materialize (Delong & Ager‚ 2005‚ p
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