Analysis Of Music Is A Universal Language: Starkville/MSU Symphony

The audition requires young musicians to prepare a solo piece, scales, orchestral excerpts, and to sight read a piece of music at the time of the audition. After auditioning, it will be determined by the conductor of the specific group whether or not one’s skill level meets the level of the group. The Memphis Youth Symphony offers a myriad of opportunities throughout the season for young musicians to connect and highlight their talent as a whole. There are four annual concerts along with several other events that allow students to acclimate into the community, while also enjoying a valuable learning experience. The Memphis Youth Symphony is a large discourse community with over 200 students from schools all across the tri-state area—I set out to conduct pertinent research to efficiently support my analysis of The Memphis Youth Symphony discourse community.

We can usually listen to the music in various scenes in life. But we don't often just concentrated on listening. The same was the case with me before. Especially, I was ignorant in classical music. But now I like listening to orchestra concert from the front row seats. It is a quite wonderful experience. Since my children start learning how to play the violin, I came to listen to classical music. After I could a little understand artistic features of classical music, I listened to it with rapt attention. I especially came to like Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto. I was listening it through only my computer, but on the whole I was satisfied.

East Carolina’s Concert band and Symphonic band performed on Tuesday, February 16, at seven thirty in the evening in Wright Auditorium. Being a duel performance it included over a hundred of my talented East Carolina peers led by outstanding band Directors Dr. Juchniewicz and Dr. Staub. Along with great students and Directors, the show incorporated a beautiful trombone solo performed by a fellow colleague. Although I have never attended a concert where such style of music was being performed, I did enjoy the music being played and most of them sounded as if I heard them before. The professionalism the students portrayed and maintain to the audience was breathtaking and made me honored to be their peers.

I attended a Senior Recital performed by Travis Hogue-Smith. This concert took place at Barry University’s chapel on March 28, 2017 at 7:30 PM. The instruments used in this concert are a clarinet, played by Travis Hogue-Smith, and a piano, play Dr. Beverly Coulter. Music from both Romantic and Classical genres were played in this concert.

On October 13, I attended a concert by the UT Jazz orchestra at the Bates Recital Hall. This performance consisted of seven pieces and all were stylistically different, which allowed the audience to enjoy the various sounds of jazz music. Among the instrument groups, there are saxophones, trumpets, trombones, piano and drums. Professor Jeff Hellmer served as director andJohn Mills appeared as guest conductor. The whole concert made a lasting impression on me.

One experience that has shaped my love for music is being a member of the Composers’ Guild, which is an extracurricular activity unique to Morton High School. While I was in this group, I learned basic music theory, participated in experiments and activities in music composition, and I have received feedback and performances of some of my pieces. I have also composed twenty pieces of music and heard live performances of four of my pieces as of fall 2017. Three of my works have been performed by Illinois Wesleyan University musicians at annual MHS schoolwide concerts showcasing

Many might say that the arts are stereotyped as a pass time or an extracurricular activity; I envision it as a safe haven from stress and anxiety. Throughout the past 8 years, music has played an insurmountable role in my development into the individual I have become today. Through times of disappointment and dissatisfaction, I have always resorted to music as a way to relieve myself, whether it be playing or listening. Music thrives through me, and applies to every day of my life.

The Cosumnes River College Orchestra and Band presented their performance at Recital Hall last Wednesday. The event was presented by Jim Mazzaferro and Grant Parker. The Concert Orchestra portion, conducted by Jim Mazzaferro, consisted of collection of pieces composed by notable composers such as: Johann David Heinichen, Antonin Devorak, Antonio Vivaldi, Martin Grayson, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Concert Orchestra started with “Sonata for Violin, Flute, Oboe Viola and Bassoon” by Johann David Heinichen and continued with “Slavonic Dance No.3” by Antonin Dvorak. “Slavonic Dance No. 8” was the last composition in Orchestra’s program. After the intermission event continued with the Concert Band performance directed by Grant Parker. The program

For my first concert report of this semester, I attended the Chamber Music Concert put on by the Bronx Arts Ensemble. The performance consisted of three chamber pieces from the classical and early romantic periods; “String Trio in B Flat Major, D. 471” by Franz Schubert, “Quartet in E Flat Major, Op. 2 No. 1” by Bernhard Henrik Crusell, and “Divertimento in E Flat Major, K. 563” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Each song was played in true historic fashion (although we only heard four of the six movements from Mozart’s composition), and it was very stimulating to be able to see the music we have been listening to in class being played live.

On October 16th I attended the choral music concert in UNC Wilmington’s recital hall. The performance consisted of a concert choir and a chamber choir with Joe Hickman as the conductor. The concert, which was entirely performed by students, had a number of instruments, like the viola, trumpet, and timpani, playing during the concert choir. I had been to very few choral music concerts in the past, so this experience expanded of my understanding of music in a new and exciting way.

Because this concert was only a performance of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, I will react to movements two and four, the Scherzo and Recitative respectively. The Scherzo (second) movement was characterized by Beethoven’s ability to keep the constant presto eighth-note motive throughout the

For this semester’s Patron of the Arts assignment, I listened to the North Suburban Wind Ensemble’s performance at the Chicagoland Invitational Concert Band Festival. At CICBF, the tone of the environment was fairly professional. There were many hard working young musicians there, unlike the Woodstock students, that valued the music being performed. The band performed Four Scottish Dances composed by Malcolm Arnold, Symphony No. 3 Slavyanskaya composed by Boris Kozhevnikov, and Symphonie Fantastique Witches Round Dance composed by Hector Berlioz.

After a minor wobble of the director stand, a few adjustments and giggles, Symphony No.1 in D major began. The first movement started off with an eerie introduction, with the first two notes morphing into a birdcall as well as main theme but a very magical sound. It made for a very soothing, romantic time. Throughout the piece I felt as if it told a story as most music does, what I came to believe it was a love story. The Allegro begins in the cello with the second Wayfarer song, “Ging heut morgen Ubers Feld,” (I Walked this Morning over the Field). With a light and happy tone in the beginning as if two lovers had just met, this was the main theme of this movement. Suddenly there was a deep, heavy part maybe one of despair in paradise but that only lasted for a short period as it came to a victorious ending of happily ever after. (Kahn)

On July 20, 2017, I watched Dvořák’s “New World” Symphony that was a very amazing piece. The symphony consisted of four movements that played: Adagio-Allegro molto, Largo, Scherzo, and Allegro con fuoco, which were all enthusiastic movements and all were full of energy.

When people think of the term literacy, they most commonly define it as the ability to read and write, in the verbal sense. But there is a wide range of literacy apart from that, which also requires mastering a set of crucial skills. One such example is musical literacy, which is the ability to read, write, or appreciate music. Musical literacy is not all that different from the verbal kind. Leonard G. Ratner, when speaking of 18th and 19th century music, writes "Both language and music had their vocabulary, syntax, and arrangement of formal structures, subsumed under the title Rhetoric" (xiv). In other words, music, like language, is based on its own set of learned rules, and both serve as a form of