Oboe Essays

decrescendos. The full ensemble enters again raising the dynamics to forte before decrescendoing and slowing down to end with a held note and final tone. The first movement of the Swan Lake Suite, Scene, which began with the violins playing with an oboe solo on top. The oboe was playing various crescendos and decrescendos at a mezzo piano dynamic and the tempo was moderate. This ends with the high woodwinds playing a string of the melody, passing it to the low brass with the strings very quietly in the background

students spend around six weeks practicing. My junior year solo was the hardest solo I’ve prepared, it challenged me in ways that I had not been prepared for. The song was divided into three movements, with little breaks or rest time in between. As an Oboe player, which plays on a double reed, it is hard to support your breath when you play for long periods of time. The lack of air also makes it hard to stay in tune. Looking at the different movements, I decided to start with the second one due to the

By ancient Greek music we mean the whole musical culture that includes the ancient Greek history .The word “Music” is produced by the word “Muses”(from the 9 Muses of the arts), at least 5 from the 9 Muses were protecting different music. The three major civilizations that it was known that they first had music in their culture were the Cyclades the Minoans and the Mycenaean. Greeks began to study music theory in the 6th century. Pythagoras one of the most popular man in ancient Greece is known as

In “Death in Venice”, there are several figures who work as triggers that seduced Aschenbach out from his self-restrained appreciation of beauty, and pushed him gradually into the realm of desire and unrestrained impulsions, which ultimately leaded him to his death. These figures are contextual symbols in this novella, and to Aschenbach, the encountering with each figure represented a new change to his path, and pushes him forward in his journey. The plot of this novella, which is Aschenbach’s journal

Chapter 2 “Musical Instruments in the Tanakh” So from dissecting biblical text, it is said that Satan was the first created being to have music placed within him. As mentioned earlier on in this chapter, the first human documented in the Bible to handle a musical instrument was Jubal, yet although he may have been the source of all musical instruments as we know them now, it can be argued that few Christians understand the true spiritual significance of the instruments used in worship. If a true

The oboe is a double-reed woodwind instrument, has slender, narrow, conical body. The distinguishing features of the oboe is the mouthpiece: two flattened blades of bamboo that produces a “squeaky” sound by vibrating against each other. The oboe didn’t always look and sound that, it went through centuries of change. Early images of the oboe begin with Ancient Egypt (3000 B.C), it showed a feast of in honor of the dead. The instrument was made out of barley straws and did not have finger keys or

April 29, 2018 I saw the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra perform songs featuring works from Prokofiev, Mozart and Beethoven. These pieces were conducted by Carlo Rizzi and featured Elizabeth Koch Tiscione on the oboe. The orchestra consisted of violins, violas, cello, and bass for strings, and flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, French horn, and trumpet for the winds. The first selection was four movement work “Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Opus 25, ‘Classical’” composed by Sergei Prokofiev. This first movement

was and to see what instruments they had available. I ended up starting the oboe, which till this day is the love of my life. During the Seventh Grade I was introduced to the Central Illinois Youth Symphony. I auditioned for it and their Flute Choir on, Oboe, Flute, and Bassoon (picking up and learning only a week before auditions). When the results came in I found out that I had made all three parts doubling Oboe and Bassoon in the Central Illinois Concert Orchestra (2013-2014). The season

a lot of the same struggles trying to find the end to our path. About three years ago is when my odyssey began. At the time I was just starting oboe, and I did not think much of it. It was not till a few months afterwards when I realized I had fallen in love with the instrument. I practiced for hours and hours, sometimes up to six hours a day. Oboe

structure of the song are trumpets, the flute, oboe, bass, and violins. These instruments together as one create a polyrhythm and interesting tune that is unlike any other piece of music in the film. Particularly the flute and oboe are instruments used to double the solo voices and add emphasis. For example when Anita or any of the females sings a solo line the flute is in the background, but then when one of the men, like Bernardo sing solo the oboe is in the background. The sounds of these two instruments

On Saturday, March 12, 2016, the Illinois Valley Symphony Orchestra (IVSO) preformed in the Ottawa High School Auditorium. During the presentation four songs were preformed. Within the four songs came two separate solos. The solos were preformed by two young ladies that were still attending high school. Overture on Hebrew Themes, op. 34: To start off the performance the orchestra preformed Sergei Prokofiev’s Overture on Hebrew Themes. Prokofiev wrote the piece in the twentieth century. The piece

This concert was performed in a small hall in the main music building. The performer was a music professor who was doing a bassoon concert. She was accompanied by three other musicians playing the piano, flute, and oboe. Except for the final composition, she only performed with one other instrument at a time. The performance was broken down into 4 songs, each rather long in length. There was a brief intermission in between the first two songs and the remaining two. Most of the songs were long and

more often during the 16th century. According to Smith (50), from the year 1450s to 1550s, several woodwind instruments were designed in different sizes and shapes and performed using human voices. Many instruments such as guitar, trombone, trumpet, oboe and flute, which we use today, can be traced back to previous elements of the Renaissance. The woodwind instruments were much softer than most of the instruments we use today because they were made of wood and just wood but special wood and curved

Over the past weekend, I saw the West Suburban Symphony Orchestra. This orchestra included, Violin 17, Viola 8, Cello 7, Contrabass 5, Harp 1, Flute and Piccolo 3, Oboe 2, English Horn 1, Clarinet 2, Bass Clarinet 1, Saxophone 1, Bassoon 2, Contrabassoon 1, French Horn 5, Trumpet 3, Trombone 2, Bass Trombone 1, Tuba 1, and Percussion 5. There was also some vocalists including Soprano 14, Alto 15, Tenor 11, and Bass 8. The two pieces that were being performed were, Symphony No. 1 - Winter Dreams -

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F major, BWV 1047 The instruments heard throughout the concerto are violins, violas, a cello, a bass, an oboe, a recorder, a keyed trumpet, and a harpsichord. The first movement begins at a quick tempo. Sixteenth notes are played constantly and are passed around the different instruments. Throughout the sixteenth not passages or mordents and other embellishments. The keyed trumpet plays lip trills rather than p laying fingered trills. The phrases of the first

The baroque period had a limit of instruments as stated, “Baroque orchestras had from 10 to 30 players, primarily strings” (Retromusics 2016), this can be evident in Water Music. The piece consists of the following instruments – trumpet, French horn, oboe, bassoon, violin, viola and double bass as shown on the score. These instruments were commonly used during the baroque period (appendix 1). The strings during the baroque period, were the most important part of the ensemble, this is noticeable in the

quiet all at once in Piano then quickly crescendos again. As the piece goes along Peter is introduced to many different “animals” or instruments, such as the Flute from the woodwind family, which represents the Bird. Then came the duck played by the oboe, which featured a melody in Legato and a tempo in moderato. As the duck and bird argue the overall tempo becomes Allegro and the melody features a short period of staccato, until the cat is

Ensembles that was held at Bob Jones University. There was a total of nine well-performed pieces from the students that sounded very pleasant and harmonious to the ear. The woodwind ensemble consisted of various types of wind instruments such as the flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, English horn, bass clarinet, bass flute, alto flute, and piccolo. The transition from one piece to another was smooth with good variations of tempos, meters, style, and movements. The first opening piece of the evening was Trio

pieces out of the three that were preformed that stuck out to me the most were Tsontakis and Haydn. These two contrasted with each other in the sense that the first was only played with string instruments and the second also had string as well as the oboe, bassoon, violin, cello, flute and a drum. They both had two different feelings to them which made me appreciate certain parts in each piece even more. Tsontakis piece had four pieces that were very different but at the same time still were related

In the Præludium Adagio introduction section to the third movement of his Quintet for Winds, Carl Nielson employs several bold instrumentation decisions such as his choice of including an english horn and an A clarinet, usage of a large amount of each instrument’s range, and method of laying harmonies for the purpose of creating a sharp contrast between dark, brilliant, and strenuous colors. Normally when one thinks of the purpose of the A clarinet, having the performer play in a more comfortable