Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Music Analysis

The next piece played was Incantation and Dance (1963) by James Barnes (J.B.) Chance. I was already familiar with this form of music since I played it at the Music for All National Concert Band festival with my high school's band. The song starts low, flutes come in in the low register of their instrument and set the audience up for a mysterious incantation-- or magic spell. While the opening starts slow and spookily, and percussion instruments are incorporated, you're driven by multiple rhythmic patterns which require much complexity.

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky is the author of six symphonies and the finest and most popular operas in the Russian repertory. Tchaikovsky was also one of the founders of the school of Russian music. He was a brilliant composer with a creative imagination that helped his career throughout many years. He was completely attached to his art. His life and art were inseparably woven together. "I literally cannot live without working," Tchaikovsky once wrote, "for as soon as one piece of work is finished and one would wish to relax, I desire to tackle some new work without delay." The purpose of this paper is to give you a background concerning Tchaikovsky's biography, as well as to discuss his various works of

Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker” and Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring “ are two of the most influential ballets to ever be recorded. Their ballets have been played and duplicated for many years. I will start this paper with a summary of each composer which will include where they are from culturally, geographically and musically. Then I talk about each ballet. Where it was written, the story behind each piece, and its reception now and its reception at the time it was published. I will also include the popularity of each ballet in other forms such as Disney. Finally, I will provide a detailed concert report of each ballet.

In this week’s listening exercises, I found there to be much excitement and mood all in one movement. I enjoyed listening to all the pieces, but my favorite two were Eine kleine Nachtmusik (Third Movement: Minuet, Allegretto) by Mozart and Symphony No. 94 in G Major, Second Movement: Andante (Surprise) by Haydn. Even though they were very different I found them both to be entertaining.

Once being presented with this opportunity to write this paper I found it as a wonderful opportunity to express my opinion on two different musical greats. The one that I decided to choose for the old would have to be Tchaikovsky, and for the new by far my favorite choice would be the beetles. The selection of these two specific artist was almost a no brainer for me, they embody the perfect blend of inspirational music that delivers a specific, yet powerful message, both artist belong to different genres one from a classical genre and one from a more modern form of music.Also, both these artists viewed music regardless of the genre as a form of communicating a message to the masses, in the beetles era war was occurring in the world and in terms of Tchaikovsky he was one of the best ballet composers of his

This piece begins with a pickup by the flute, who leads the A melody into the first section. After 8 bars, the strings and harp enter (0:27) while the flute starts to repeat the beginning of the A melody. However, three bars into this repetition, the melody changes, though the instrumentation does not (0:35). The flute slowly inches towards the peak of its melodic shape until it reaches it at (0:48). The flute then fades out as the strings flesh out the rest of the 8-bars.

While I sit amongst the ranks of a stringed beast, my orchestra, I appreciate the small failures made by myself and my fellow musicians as we fly through the twists and turns of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.2, The Little Russian. A missed accidental in measure thirty-one or an unfavorable bowing in need of correction ten measures after G help the ensemble to advance as a whole. My great gratitude for failure did not carry on outside the ranks of a symphony. Failure was the devil in music, a tritone, under my bed. My dad always told me, “Experience is what you have right after you needed it.” I never found the value of a major seventh chord until it was placed within the sheet music of my life.

The last was the Mexican piece “Plena Con Sabor” written by Oscar Hernandez. This piece was different from others in that Beatriz Figueroa-Chavez sang solo and danced. I really liked her voice. During the composition, it was possible to observe how the sound changed because someone from the musicians fell silent and then joined again. The tempo was fast throughout the piece and did not change. The end of composition was played by all instruments and it sounded

This “program music” included many odd instruments like the harp, oboe, and tuba. In another composition, Tchaikovsky used actual cannons (1812 Overture). He went on to compose many outstanding pieces. Collectively, Tchaikovsky had composed 169 pieces, including symphonies, operas, ballets, concertos, cantatas, and songs. His most famed and easily recognizable works include Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, and the Nutcracker.

One of my famous ballets is Firebird, at first it starts gloomy, daring, dark, spooky, and it fills you with curiosity, of what will happen next. It gets faster and faster. Like a action movie. When I hear it I think of a mouse running from a cat. It also reminds me of the music in the Harry Potter series. The light sounds of the flute, clarinet, violins, and percussion make the music bounce along like it continues to build until a grand

The first piece that was performed was called “.....Florence”. There was a variety of different pitches and dynamics. The purpose was to set the tone of the play. The instruments that were playing and the singing made the tone sound intense at some parts. It was entertaining and kept me interested.

Another piece I appreciated was Flight of the Bumblebee. Composed in 1899-1900  by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Korsakov wrote this piece for his is opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan.I savored the music because it was rapid and reminded of this movie Bee Movie. Also we sat on the seats where we could see the pianist fingers go quickly and elegantly.

ATchaikovsky=s music is not only one of the cornerstones of Russian musical society and world music . . . It is at the same time a creative and technical encyclopedia to which every Russian composer has reference in the course of his own work,@ commented Dimitri Shostakovich.1 This was a typical view held by Tchaikovsky=s contemporaries. He was well known and well respected, especially in his later years. In addition, Tchaikovsky was recognized as the most expressive Romantic composer in Russia.2 He was often idolized and put on a pedestal, particularly during his tour of the United States in 1891 when he conducted concerts of his own works in some of the leading concert halls. Tchaikovsky brought national attention to

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born in Votkinsk, the Viatka District in Russia on May 7, 1840 to a Russian miner and a mother of French origin. During his early life, Tchaikovsky did receive some musical training from a French governess in the form of piano lessons, but the training did not continue. As a young child, Tchaikovsky's family moved to St. Petersburg because

Peter Tchaikovsky was a famous Composer from the 19th Century. He is known as the most famous Russian composer in history (“Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Biography”). Some historians think that he was Russia’s first truly professional composer ("Tchaikovsky Music's – Famous”). His music was performed during the late 1800s. He created many musical works throughout this time as a composer and many of these works are still listened to today.