Concert Attendance Report Essay

I am a casual listener because I kindred having music playing, filling the environment with sounds. I can listen to music while studying and sleeping, and I like listening to music because it can keep back me relax and ignore the noise that around me. I attended the concert on October 5 at 800pm. Contrapunctus XIX, from The Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080 by Johann Sebastian live, Metamorphosen by Richard Strauss and melody No.7 in A major, Op.92 by Ludwig Van Beethoven were performed. The style of Contrapunctus XIX, from The Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080 is set progresses to double, triple, and mirror fugues, culminating in a quadruple fugue. Metamorphosen is a memorial elegy. melody No.7 in A major, Op.92 is in four rides, Poco sostenuto Vivace, Allegretto, Presto and Allegro con brio.The orchestra had violins, violas, cellos, basses, flutes, piccolo, oboes, English horn, clarinets, bassoons, horns, trumpets, trombones, tuba, keyboards and harp.Contrapunctus XIX, from The Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080 is an unfinished work by Johann Sebastian Bach. The Art of the Fugue is a set of fugues of increasing complexity using every theoretical device. The set progresses to double, triple and mirror fugues, culminating in a quadruple fugue that was incomplete because of Bachs death, and his son arranged for him. Bach is the Baroque composer. Contrapunctus XIX was incorporating counterpoint, and explicitly and systematically explored the full range of contrapuntal. The volume of this piece is soft. Its tempo is Adagio or Lento (slow). Its contour repeated pitch melody, direction is static, and had a narrow range. Its heartbeat is alternation of tension and relaxation. It is a strophic form. It is a classical music.Metamorphosen by Richard Strauss. This piece uses as its primary motivic element a passage from the funeral march in Beethovens Eroica Symphony. Its tempo is andante (at leisurely walking speed). Its volume is crescendo (becoming louder). Its rhythm is alternati on of tension and relaxation. Its contour jagged melody, direction is static, and had a wide range. It is arepetition and contrast which is ternary form. It is a romantic music.Symphony No.7 in A major, Op.92 by Ludwig Van Beethoven. The Seventh Symphony is in four movements. After a slow introduction (as in the First, Second and Fourth Symphonies) the first movement is in sonata form and is dominated by lively dance-like rhythms. The second movement, in A minor, is slow, although the tempo marking is _Allegretto_ (a little quickly), devising it slow only in comparison to the other three movements. This movement was encored at the premiere and has remained popular since. The ostinato (repeated rhythmic figure) of a quarter note, two eighth notes and two quarter notes is heard repeatedly.The third movement is a scherzo and trio. Here, the trio (which is based on an Austrian Pilgrims hymn2) is played twice rather than once. This expansion of the inveterate A-B-A structure of ternar y form into A-B-A-B- A was quite common in other works of Beethoven of this period, such as his Fourth Symphony and hang Quartet Op. 59 No. 2. The last movement is in sonata form. Donald Francis Tovey, writing in his _Essays in Musical Analysis_, commented on this movements Bacchic peevishness. Its volume is crescendo (becoming louder). Its rhythm is tension. Its contour jagged melody, direction is upward, and had a wide range. It is a repetition and contrast which is ternary form. It is a classical music.I enjoyed the concert so much because I like Beethovens music, and I am so happy to see such a with child(p) orchestra I have never seen it before. I am looking forward to attend it again.