Concert Observation

The Classical period of music has also been called the “Rococo” period. The Classical time period was between the 18th and 19th centuries. Spanning the years of 1750-1820. The transition from the Baroque period to the Classical took the music from polyphonic to homophonic where even though it seems like that would make the music less complex we look at a whole different type of complexity. The music typically contained two different melodies and a contrast in sections. This made the chords in the music much more defined and the tonal part of the music became more defined. The Classical period had a significant influence on several aspects of music. Chamber music had a sonata form. This means it had an exposition, a transition, and a recapitulation. Composition in the Classical time was mainly dominated by eclecticism which made the music more diverse. Concerto was driven at first by the Italians. They started the idea of the solo concerto. Orchestration was mainly developed during this musical time period. This is partly due to some of the most talented musicians that lived during this time. They did a lot of work in making the orchestra mainly string instruments. Some of these being the violin, viola, cello, and the contrabass, just to name a few. All of these things had a great influence in the way the music made the transition from the Baroque period to the Classical period.

The concert I attended was called the Faculty and Student Recital, which took place in the Cisco Auditorium on April 11, 2017. The music that was on the program was mostly what is called “classical” music, as well as a Chinese Folk Song, an electronic composition, and variations on an Indian Tala. In the classical pieces, the instruments that were used were the violin, the piano, the cello, and the oboe. In the electronic composition, the computer was used to make music. In the Chinese Folk Song, the piccolo was used to imitate the unique timbre of a Chinese flute. In the Indian tala, drums from Ghana were used to imitate the rhythm and sound of Indian drums. The piano, the violin, the cello, and the piccolo all originate

MUS 110CL Concert Critique Guidelines and Rubric After either attending a live concert or watching a full length concert online, write a critique of the performance following the format below. Here are a few examples of full length concerts you can find online (by conducting a web search using the criteria below) that could be used for this assignment:         Coldplay Live In Boston 2012 (Full Concert DVD) Sting: If on a winters night-Live from Durham Cathedral 2009 (watch all 14 songs on concert) Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Ron Wood, Bill Wyman, Jan Hammer, Charlie Duke Ellington The Great Paris Concert Richard Galliano/Winton Marsalis - Billie Holiday meets Edith PIAF Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Jazz Center

The concert I attended was Beethoven Fourth Symphony conducted by Tito Munoz. This concert took place at the Phoenix Symphony Hall and consisted of three pieces. The first one was Symphony No.4 by Beethoven, the second was Concerto no. 1 for Piano and Orchestra by Alberto Ginastera, and finally was La valse by Maurice Ravel. Overall, this concert had a great variety from very melodic pieces to suspenseful music.

G.F Handel (1685-1759) was a German-British Baroque composer whose works have been continuously played to the present. He is well-known for his orchestral suites and his chamber and vocal music. His most famous work is oratorio “The Messiah”

There were a total of four music pieces performed. They were “Overture from the Singspiel”, “Concerto in e minor”, “Concerto on b minor,opus 104”, and “Symphony#2 in b minor, opus 5”. I think pieces were performed belong to classical style.

The second concert I attended was the Shepherd school of music collegium concert at Rice University. The program featured music from the renaissance and was a little bit different then the orchestra concert I attended. For one there were fewer musicians. It had a more intimate setting, not a big theater but rather a small rehearsal hall. The musicians exchanged in and out after there part of the performance was over and there was some singing as well.

The first half of the concert was only instrumental. There were two violins, two violas, and two cellos. They sat on stage with the violins one my right, then the violas in the middle, and the cellos on the end. The violins played a few songs solo. The second half of the concert was only the choir and a piano. Their performance started with the song Daybreak. The song Daybreak also had a few girls playing percussion, one of them had a tambourine. Using SHMRG, the Harmony of most of the choirs songs were very homophonic. The Melody of most of the songs were mainly slow, though a couple songs were very fast, and upbeat.

Classical music has had different periods which includes romantic (1804-1910), but classical itself as a period (1750-1820) was a clear un textured form of music in comparison to the others. One well known artist that fell under the classical period was Mozart. Mozart was and is one of the most well known classical artist, to which many would accompany knowledge with his

The piece that I found the most enjoyable was the Concerto in E minor by Elgar. It was performed by Vivian Zhang on the cello.

Down the history of music, the classical era was known as the golden age of chamber music. This chamber style of music was largely established by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. Joseph Haydn was one of the most prolific composers amongst the first Viennese schools (Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven), in the classical era.

The classical music period extends from 1740 to 1810, which includes the music of Haydn, Mozart, and the first period of Beethoven. The classical period of music combined harmony, melody, rhythm, and orchestration more effectively than earlier periods of music. With the natural evolution of music slowly changing with the culture, the baroque era had ended. That era had left a structure, articulation and periodic phrasing of music which would shape classical music.

The concert performed Fortress by Frank Tichelli, Parade of the Cliches by Livingston Gearhart, Military March by Ludwig van Beethoven and arranged by Berkowitz, Symphonic Prelude: Eternal Father by Elliot Del Borgo, Grand Serenade for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion by P. D. Q. Bach, and Galop by Dmitri Shostakovich.

I had attended in several symphony concerts at the big concert hall, so this time, I decided to go to a small concert at a church. The concert I went to is “The Cary Classical Concerts – The second concert: A Night of Dvorak”, which took place at Saint Francis United Methodist Church. The concert is a debut of trio Anthony Lee – piano, Cortney Baker – violin, and Nathan Leyland – cello. Also, there is a special guest come to the concert is tenor Kang Noh Park and organ Scott Baker. The whole program is about Dvorak and some great piece of music from his written. The concert was awesome even though it is not happened at a big concert hall and the program is a little different. I do enjoy the concert in one way or another way; however, it totally gave me a different experiment of listening to the music.

The concert that I attended was played by Michael Kirkendoll on Wednesday, November 8 at Beall Concert Hall. Kirkendoll played two pieces during the performance. The first was called “Marriage, Mile 55 From the Road,” which talked about the disturbing tale of a man that explains how he murdered his wife. The second piece, “De Profundis,” talked about a distal longing for love from a homosexual man who was arrested because of who he loved.