Music Paper

Please look at the following attachments. This is a music paper from 750-1000 words. MLA Formatted. 

 

Each student will write one 750 -1000 word essay about a musical experience the student will attend. The student will describe the music in detail with regard to instrumentation, setting and staging, number of performers on what instruments, style of music played, musical arrangement, musicians’ playing styles, and audience response. Within the essay, students should incorporate at least twenty-five of the musical terms from the textbook glossary. The terms used should be indicated in the essay by putting the terms in boldface type. Student will describe the music in detail with regard to instrumentation, setting and staging, number of performers on what instruments, style of music played, musical arrangement, musicians’ playing styles, and audience response. Within the essay, students should incorporate at least twenty-five of the musical terms from the textbook glossary. The terms used should be indicated in the essay by putting the terms in boldface type.

1. Identify type of event; give names of all performers, date and place. Identify instruments that

were played (ex. Band, Chorus, Symphony Orchestra, Voice and Guitar).

2. Identify the compositions that were performed. Wherever possible, identify the composers. How

was the overall program organized?

3. Comment on the artistry of the performer(s). Consider interpretation, excitement, energy,

precision, technical ability, beauty, and uniqueness. How involved were the performers with the

music?

4. What piece (section of the program) did you most enjoy? Why?

5. Describe the physical and social environment. Were there any especially appropriate or

distracting conditions or behavioral gestures on the part of either the performers or the audience?

6. Did the acoustical qualities of the room (auditorium, chamber hall, nightclub, church) have any

perceptible effect on the sound of the instruments and/or voice? If so, try to describe the effect.

7. What was your overall intellectual and emotional reaction of the program? How did it compare to

other similar performances you have attended?

8. How does this performance relate to the subject of our class?

Bios of the Composers and the Instrumentalists are not acceptable in your concert report.

NOTE: I attended the “Debussy-La-Mer” susanna mälkki, conductor

Leila Josefowicz, violin

1. Conductor was: Susanna Malkki

2. Lead Violin/Solo Violin: Leila Josefowicz

3. Violions:

a. Robert Chen, Stephanie Jeong, David Taylor, Yuan-Qing Yu, So Young Bae, Cornelius Chiu, Alison Dalton, Gina DiBello, Kozue Funakoshi, Russell Hershow, Qing Hou, Nisanne Howell, Blair Milton, Paul Phillips Jr, Sando Shia, Susan Synnestvedt, Rong-Yan Tang, Baird Dodge, Sylvia Kim, Lei Hou, Ni Mei, Fox Fehling, Hermine Gagne, Rachel Goldstein, Mihaela Lonescu, Melanie Kupchynsky.

b. VIOLAS

i. Charles Pikler, Li Kuo Chang, John Bartholomew, Catherine Brubaker, Diane Mues, Lawrence Neuman, Yukiko Ogura, Daniel Orbach, Max Raimi, Weijing Wang, Thomas Wright

c. CELLOS

i. John Sharp, Kenneth Olsen, Karen Basrak, Loren Brown, Richard Hirschi, Daniel Katz, Katinka Kleign, Jonathan Pegis, David Sanders, Gary Stucka, Brant Taylor

d. BASSES

i. Alexander Hanna, Daniel Armstrong, Roger Cline, Joseph DiBello, Michael Hovnanian, Robert Kassinger, Mark Kraemer, Stephen Lester, Bradley Opland

e. HARPS

i. Sarah Bullen, Lynne Turner

f. FLUTES

i. Mathieu Dufour, Richard Grauf, Louise Dixon, Jennifer Gunn

g. Piccolo

i. Jennifer Gunn

h. OBOES

i. Eugene Izotov, Michael Henoch, Lora Schaefer, Scott Hostetler

i. ENGLISH HORN

i. Scott Hostetler

j. CLARINETS

i. Stephen Williamson, John Bruce Yeh, Gregory Smith, J. Lawrie Bloom

k. E-FLAT CLARINET

i. John Bruce YEH

l. BASS CLARINET

i. Lawrie Bloom

m. BASSONS

i. David McGill, William Buchman, Dennis Michel, Miles Maner

n. Contrabassoon

i. Miles Maner

o. HORNS

i. Daniel Gingrich, James Smelser, David Griffin, Oto Carrillo, Susanna Gaunt

p. Piano

i. Mary Sauer

q. TIMPANI

i. David Herbert, Vadim Karpinos

r. PERCUSSION

i. Cythia Yeh, Patricia Dash, Vadim Karpinos, James Ross

s. TUBA

i. Gene Pokomy, Christine Querfeld

t. BASS TROMBONE

i. Charles Vernon

u. TROMBONES

i. Jay Friedman, Michael Mulcahy, Charles Vernon

v. Trumpets

i. Christopher Martin, Mark Ridenour, John Hagstrom, Tage Larsen.