Brahms Musical Selection Is What I Would Call An Energetic A Confident Piece

Typically I study in silence, but I had to make a lot of not cards, so I decided to play some classical music. I played the Classical Music for Studying Pandora station. I do not know much about classical music, because it is typically relaxing to listen to. On this station there was a wide variety of pieces. Some were scores from current films; others include pieces from Beethoven Bach. My favorite piece was a score from a Harry Potter film. The song was instrumental, including instruments, such as piano, guitar, violin, cello, trumpets, and many others. This piece was slow tempo (Adagio), but was extremely dynamic in other aspects. The piece started off slow, most likely in the minor key because it was filled with sadness and fear. But began to build, ultimately ending in a slightly more upbeat fashion. The mood started as a sad feeling, and transition into a less sad feeling (I would not classify it as happy). Throughout the piece, there did not seem to be a consistent meter. Initially it started as duple meter, and then it transitioned into a triple meter, ultimately ending in a quadruple meter (or maybe a larger meter). The piece has multiple accent points, which created a more dramatic effect. I personally do not listen to a lot of classical music, but I believe classical music used to express a wide variety of emotions within a three to six minute piece. An individual can start off feeling happy and content, then moments later

I found this piece very interesting; it tells a clear story, and has a dissonant accompanist which makes it sound stylistically similar to the music of musical theatre.

Overall I thoroughly enjoyed this piece. Not only this piece but also this assignment. It is one thing to sit in class and read about and take notes over sonata-allegro form. It is completely another to be expected to dive deeper into a piece and try to figure out its inner most workings. As a violist I also appreciate the fact that Mozart went against the normality of the cello quintet and wrote a viola quintet. The fact he was willing to go against what was expected of him by society makes me respect him as a composer even more.

Throughout this essay I have explored the various different ways in which you can view Brahms: a misunderstood progressive, a stubborn conservative, or perhaps a progressive in a style unappreciated at the

The pitch of the music was normally low and every so often they would use a high note or two. Dynamics in the music I would say was pretty much mezzo forte , because it was loud but not that loud. The music had a mellow type of tone color, like it wasn’t something that spoke

Thus, the musical elements used in this symphony were typical for what a classical composer would do. The elements that Brahms used were extremely similar to what Beethoven and Wagner would do if they were to compose. However, Brahms did this symphony his own. Brahms First Symphony in C minor has a dark mood in the beginning of the piece, however the mood changes into a joyful piece as he shifts from minor to major keys. It becomes brighter, yet still retains the powerful tone throughout the whole symphony. With the uses of timbre, rhythm, and musical texture, this symphony shows the genius and talent of Johannes Brahms.

Schubert's Symphony No. 8 in B minor was composed during the Romantic era. The instruments heard include the trombone, flute, oboe, bassoon—members of the aerophone family—as well as the violin, viola, cello, and double bass—all chordophones. This piece has an overall homophonic texture. The genre is a symphony, which is divided into two movements: Allegro moderato and Andante con moto. The Allegro moderato follows sonata-allegro form. There are two themes presented, and the movement is in triple meter in a minor key. It begins at a soft (piano) dynamic level and grows in a crescendo. It is generally conjunct with a narrow range that eventually expands into a wide range. The softness opening creates a dramatic atmosphere filled with emotion. This movement illustrates a recapitulation—the restatement of themes, since the main two themes recur throughout the piece.

When W. A. Mozart was a young boy, he was toured around Europe’s courts as a prodigy by his father, Leopold Mozart. Although tumultuous and nerve-wracking for the young boy, his traveling did provide him with the different styles and sounds from

In my introduction to music class we were assigned to listen and evaluate a particular piece of music in order to reflect on our unique individuality. For my project I chose Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1791 and his work of the piano concerto No. 23 in A Major specifically the second movement that was created in 1786. In addition to listening, the piece must be broken down and organized into themes or motives. By the end of the project we should be able to provide an “aesthetic blueprint” of the work by using vocabulary terms that we have learned over the course of the semester.

Brahms’s “3rd movement of symphony no. 3” was the composition that I selected from this week’s listening list? During the Romantic period (1820-1900) specific styles were important during that time, including mood, rhythm, dynamics, tone color, melody and harmony, texture, and form. The tempo of this composition seemed to change very frequently throughout the piece, at different points in the compositions there were times when the tempo was fast, and there was times when it was slow. The variety, and diversity of rhythm was very apparent to me along with the dynamics of this composition. The dynamics were a huge component of this piece and was easily noticed just because there were many times during the composition where it would fluctuate

This instrumental made me want to fall asleep. I felt bored while listening to this. I wasn’t too thrilled about the selection. It was like watching a movie that was played in the 1960s. While you are waiting for a good scene of the movie and they play this certain tune to make you think something good was about to come up next. Instead, the scene turns out to be a sad part in the movie. The contour of the piece varies as it goes from a low tune to a high tune then back down again. It has many different chords. The musical form was repetitious and ostinato. There were only two different textures that I heard in this piece. At the beginning of the instrumental the texture started off as monophonic. Near the end at 5:22 was a polyphonic texture

Even though the two pieces were composed in different centuries – Mozart’s piece in the 18th century and Strauss’ piece in the 20th century – some of the musical elements that they share transcend both time periods. The characteristics of music in the classical period had to do with the new view of human psychology. Mozart was one to introduce contrasting moods within movements or even within a theme. He was able to infuse strong contrasts of moods within the style of his music (Burkholder, Grout, & Palisca 475). In Figaro, Mozart includes an overture which is a piece in sonata form despite its lack of a development section. In Act I cavatina, “Se vuol ballare”, Mozart whimsically makes changes to the character of his music so as to correspond to Figaro’s machinations (Hambrik n.p). By doing so, he musically

A pre-requisite for playing this piece should be listening to excerpts of Haydn’s Surprise Symphony (Mvt. II), Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (Mvt. I), Mozart’s 40th Symphony (Mvt. I), and Haydn’s String Quartet (Hob.III/74, Mvt. 4). Knowing how the

The second piece is Concerto №12 in A major for Piano, K. 414, by W.A. Mozart, in three movements. For this piece, the quartet grew in numbers, bringing a piano and a gigantic bass from the backstage, which greatly enhanced an already rich sound. The first movement, Allegro, is an experimental mix of a piano concerto and a sonata: the structure remains as the sonata form (Fast-Slow-Fast movements), yet the interaction between the piano and the quartet is reminiscent of concertos. Specifically, in the first movement, the ‘solo’ instrument does not play for a while -- a standard concerto move. Besides that, the tune is a stellar example of Mozart’s style -- a light, cheerful, elegant, and ethereal melody, embodies a pinnacle of musical perfection, not only for the first movement, but for the whole piece. Interesting and unusual features of the first movement include frequent, fast, and incredibly technical piano arpeggios, and bass plucking, as well as a continuously reappearing idea. The second movement, Andante, is the exact opposite of the first movement, as expected if the piece follows the sonata form. The movement is slow, melodic, peaceful, and lets the listener fully enjoy Mozart’s melody writing genius. The piano steps in later in the movement, resuming the

The first movement of Mozart’s piano Sonata No. 12 in F Major is written fairly typically in the very structured sonata form. Historically is follows the main guidelines that were understood for the form. Harmonically, is progresses like expected. There are a few surprises here and there, but they are typical for Mozart’s compositions, especially his sonatas of the 18th century. In all, it makes a very interesting piece of work, especially with so much contrast within it.