Beethoven Symphony No. 9

This summary contains two videos that will be analyzed in the next section: In the first video the composer Hector Berlioz is mentioned as well as his Symphony Fantastique. The symphony was inspired on the legend of Faust; it tells the story of a man that sold his soul to the devil in return for both knowledge and earthly pleasure. At the 7:00 mark “La traviata” is mentioned, which was an opera that talked about a love affair climaxing in a tragic death. The composer of this piece was Giuseppe Verdi, but it was not the only opera he composed, in fact they were 28 operas starting with Nabucco (1842) and ending up with Falstaff (1893) a half a century later.

Another composer who played an important role in the development of the Symphony is no other than Joseph Haydn, the ‘Father of Symphony’. One of his works, Symphony no. 92 in G Major, Hob I:92, composed in 1789, will be reviewed. “Oxford” Symphony was commissioned by Count d’Ogny for the Loge Olympique Concerts in Paris. It is known as “Oxford” because Haydn presented this symphony at the Sheldonian Theater at Oxford University in July 1791, where he was awarded a honorary doctorate degree. This symphony displays Haydn’s mature style of composition, presenting his capability to utilize thematic development, counterpoint and a mixture of distinctive moods.

His Ninth Symphony is often called the mightiest of his symphonies because his late music was more abstract than his early music. His late music involved more variations, fragmented themes, scales, and fast pace arpeggios. His late music is typically agreed to be his most favored pieces, suggesting that his deafness may have resulted in better compositions. His Ninth Symphony is also unique from his previous work because it was longer, more complex, and included a chorus and vocal soloists in the final movement, which had never been done before. If Beethoven had not lost his ability to hear, his Ninth Symphony may have sounded completely

I attended to a concert performed by the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra on November 13th this year. This concert took place in the Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco. I chose to attend to this concert because I have never been to a performance by any youth orchestra, I was curious to see how their performance would compare to other orchestras. The first of the three piece that were performed in this concert was Maenads’ Dance, from The Bassarids, composed by Hans Werner Henze. A variety of instruments were used in this piece, including woodwinds, brass, percussion, and strings.

The stringed instruments were the accompaniment; therefor, they began with harmonics, chromatics, and tremolo for various measures rather than having a moving part. The melody was given to the flutes and soloist, Sami Junnonen, who was also very talented. The song was about 22 minutes long and he had the whole piece memorized. It sounded very sad, but soothing simultaneously. There were visuals around the theater, which made it easier to understand and visualize what Lopez was trying to describe when writing the song.

Concert Report For my concert report I chose to attend my first symphony! My friend plays the violin in the Utah Symphony and told me that she was playing and I figured it was the perfect opportunity to attend. I attended Carmina Burana on Friday, October 23rd at 7:30 pm at Abravenal Hall in Salt Lake City.

Life is comprised of highs and lows, memories and friendships, history and culture. To capture the essence of life and vitality in a piece of music is near-impossible. Yet, as the low-brass lays a framework of chords and the strings drive a dynamic, shifting, melody, Antonin Dvorak is able to represent life itself in his piece, Symphony No. 9. When I first heard Symphony No. 9, often described as the New World Symphony, I was looking for a score to play in the background of my studies. It was unbeknownst to me that the score I chose would distract me from my studies due to the shock I experienced at the hands of the orchestra. The emotion exhibited by the performers, the melancholic tone, and the unsettling chords all piqued by interest.

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.

Concert Report: University of Utah Chamber Choir 4/26/16 The first piece of the evening was “Versa est in Luctum” by Tomás Luis de Victoria.. Throughout the piece, the University of Utah Chamber Choir: did a nice job of creating nice gentle crescendos. This was created by the connection the choir and their conductor created with each other.

Concert Band Emperata Overture by Claude T. Smith (March 14, 1932 – December 13, 1987) Claude T. Smith is a well known name in the wind band world. He has composed over 112 wind band works, Emperata Overture being his first and, arguably, best known work. This overture is in ABA form and features many soloists. Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral by Richard Wagner (22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) arr.

Beethoven’s Legacy “Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.” One of Ludwig van Beethoven's famous quotes. Beethoven was a deaf, classical composer and pianist that strove for excellence. Though at times he felt as if no one cared, he carried on and went on to accomplish a total of nine symphonies. Throughout the course of my essay I'll be giving key examples of Beethoven's life, in each.

The Composer, which was a guest, of the concert was James Syler. Syler compositional interests were between orchestra, wind ensemble,

That night Juliek miraculously extricates himself from the tangle of bodies and begins to play Beethoven soulfully on his violin. The music is so pure amidst

In spite of my efforts not to think about it, I could feel myself as two entities-- my body and me. I hated it.” -- Elie Wiesel (pp. 91-92). This quote sums up the “death march” from Buna to Gleiwitz. The main characters in this scene were Elie and his father, the SS officers, Rabbi Eliahou, and Zalman. This march was an enforced exodus across dozens of kilometers in the dead of winter, where not a soul was to be seen aside from SS officers, who had orders to execute anyone who took even a second’s break. Beethoven’s 5th Symphony and Chopin’s Death march pieces fit nearly perfectly as ambient music, especially the “dun-dun-dun” part of the 5th symphony.

The transition from the Classical period to the era of Romanticism affected all aspects of creative and performing arts. Romanticism was a Western cultural movement that started in the early 1800s. The movement affected all forms of art including literature, visual art and music.