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Reflection Paper On Western Music Concert

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Throughout my life I have only attended rap concerts, and family friendly musicals. Being enrolled in a Western Musicology class has really extended my horizons in regard to music. When I was asked to attend a Western Music Concert, at first, I was overwhelmed with the thought that the concert would be very formal and that I would have to sit through someone playing a violin for about three hours. My personal experience was very different than the image painted in my head. I attended the Eastern Standard Trio, a trio consisting of a horn, tuba, and piano. During the concert, I was pleasantly surprised at how informal the trio was. Before the actual concert began, Heidi Lucas, the French horn player, came onto the stage and introduced every person in the trio and their origins which really allowed me to connect with all of the players individually. Also, in addition to the explanation of the players and their backgrounds, prior to the performance of each piece the trio would explain the reasoning behind each piece and where the composer was coming from in regard to the musical work.
The music was very new to me because the combination of a French horn, piano, and tuba is something I am not accustomed to. The combination of the three instruments made sense to me once I heard the performance because I realized that the different instruments can all stand out in their own way, but also combine to make harmonizing sounds. Typically, I would not attend a concert like this, but I found it to be very refreshing and intriguing as to how different stoppers and mouth positions can change the sounds that instruments produce. Overall the performance was engaging and exciting to watch, and I was pleasantly surprised at how much I could comprehend from the music with only a month of Musicology class.
The concert itself was in the Natalie L. Haslam Music Building, in the same exact room that my musicology class is currently located. Whenever I walk into that specific room, my experience has always been shaped around music and I am accustomed to the room itself. The location of the concert helped to shape my experience in that I felt comfortable enough to engage and laugh when things were funny, but also pay attention as if

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