Tatyos Efendi Analysis

Famous composers who have written music for the French horn include Ludwig Van Beethoven, Richard Wagner, Mozart, and many other composers. Beethoven is a well-known composer for many instruments. However, his famous French Horn piece, “Horn Sonata, Op. 17”, was recognized in the International Music Score Library Project. This piece has three sections; Allegro moderato, Poco Adagio, and Allegro moderato.

In music when a musician transposes a piece, they change the notes or the key of the song so that it matches their ability and personal taste. Transposing takes away the original sound of the song and instead has the imprint of the musician. Johann Sebastian Bach, one of the world’s most renowned composers, transposed his music. Why did he do this? When Bach wrote a song, he later changed the parts so that his favorite instrument, the harpsichord, would sound the best.

Along with more nonsensical chords, a tone cluster can be found in rehearsal mark 355 of Salome’s concluding scene (Roden, Wright, and Simms 1461). This tone cluster includes notes that does not follow a specific key, similar to the absent key signature as the work’s tonality is ambiguous. Ignoring such restrictions, is again a progressive move in Strauss’ part. Some may say that Strauss’ Salome is just full of cacophony, but everything is weaved in a way to benefit the narrative. In rehearsal mark 359, a V6/4 chord begins the section in the key of C# major, followed by a layering of the leitmotifs “Ecstasy”, “Kiss”, and “Salome”.

First of all, I think Andrew Bird is one of the most incredible and talented musicians of our time. He is truly a genius. In this live performance, which I always find to be raw and authentic, a genuine feeling is given to this already amazing song. You also can observe how multi-talented Andrew bird is, using only a female guitarist/vocalist as his accompaniment besides his voice and violin (which is used in unique was) to create a very strings-heavy song. At first he starts out by strumming his violin, a technique I’ve never seen done so well, with no other accompaniment but a female guitarist by his side.

Tsontakis piece made me think about all the different things that we go through in life, and how something may be bad or scary at the time, but it won’t last forever. Everything happens for a reason and only lasts for a season, then it’s time to move onto a different part of your life, just like the song did by changing from heavier/ stronger parts to calm/ light parts which demonstrated this contrast. Haydn’s piece just made me think so much about all the good happy things in life and how even the little things that happen are sometimes some of the best parts like how the harmony in the background was subtle but ended up pulling the whole piece together in the

From early in the piece, the harpsichord establishes itself as more than a mere accompaniment and rather as a foundational element in control of the direction of the work. In particular,Excerpt 1 shows the harpsichord as the first instrument to play during this solo, as it enters with trilled phrases and eventually sweeping glissandi uncharacteristic of a basso continuo part, which ordinarily "blends in with the background like a custodian, in insuring continuity, permits the expressive liberties of the soloists" (McClary, 25). While McClary explains this deviation from the norm as the harpsichord 's "competing for attention" before its "hijacking of the piece" (25), the harpsichord part 's melodic complexity and dynamics – the clearly audible harpsichord against the more subdued flute and violin – instead suggest that the solo sections are points of expression just as much for the "soloists" as the harpsichordist. That is, the harpsichord plays alongside the soloists in a sort of equal-voiced non-imitative polyphony rather than in the soloist 's shadows at the start of the solo before the harpsichord returns to the background. That the instrument begins a section in the foreground before tapering back on its own suggests that the harpsichord has no issue gaining attention and instead has considerable control over its position within the

Milton Babbitt was an extraordinary composer, philosopher, and intellectual who contributed immensely to the world of music. I used several books and scholarly resources to learn about his interesting life dedicated to his love of music. I used three books that allowed me to learn about his music, philosophy, and theories. These books included: Milton Babbitt: Words about Music, The Collected Essays of Milton Babbitt, and An Introduction to the Music of Milton Babbitt. I also used a scholarly article from Oxford Music Online to learn about the biography of Milton Babbitt, and how he became so interested in music.

Evocative of much of the work he composed during his younger years Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Symphony No. 29 is a testament to his genius and mastery of classical musical forms. Written when he was just eighteen years old the composition is a concise and peculiar example of classical Sonata form. Instead of having an introduction before the exposition Mozart ops to present the primary theme of the piece’s Allegro movement at the start of the first downbeat. Exceptionally melodic the primary theme of the movement start with an authoritative leap of an octave in the violins.

Bach 's Brandenburg Concerto also uses the the Concerto Grosso format where there is a contrast between the ripieno full orchestra parts, and the concertino soloist parts. In the concertino parts of Bach’s piece, it is marked obligato which means that the piece must be played exactly as written, which contrasts with the ideas of jazz music. During the ripieno parts however, the figured bass is provided in the continuo which allows for improvisation. One last secondary link that I have found is that is a vital part of the form and and aids the style of each culture as well. In Baroque music, figured bass symbols provide direction for which chords should be played, while jazz music provides chord symbols in the rhythm section.

The Baroque period saw the creation of tonality and an approach to writing music in which a song or piece is written in a particular key. During the Baroque period, professional musicians were expected to be skilful improvisers of both solo melodic lines and accompaniment part. Baroque music was normally accompanied by a basso continuo group which consisted of chordal instrument such as harpsichordists and lute players who improvised chords from a figured bass part while a group of bass instruments such as viol, cello and double bass played the bass lines. One of the defining characteristics of Baroque music is the basso continuo, or figured bass, providing the harmonic structure of the music. The continuo is sometimes called figured bass because the composer would simply write chord figures below the musical staff and let the musician figure out how to realize the harmony.