Today I will be analyzing a string quartet by Haydn, specifically a fast one. The work that I will be analyzing is called "String Quartet in B flat Op.1 No.1" Musical Elements:
Triple Compound Meter
Major (Bb) for majority of the work, then minor for a small section
Homophonic texture
Tempo: Allegro
4 string instruments, Violin 1 and 2, Viola, Cello
Cresendo on the first part of each phrase and decrescendo on the second part
Musical Structure:
Very segmented, periodic structure
Each phrase is about 4 measures
Musical structure and rhythms are consistent but are on different pitches the second time
B section changes tonality for a couple of measures which leads to the A section.
I'm back with another one of my listening journals. This time I'm going to be analyzing a Mozart piano concerto. The piano concerto that I will be analyzing is " Piano concerto #21 in C Minor". I'll limit myself to the first 4 minutes since the movements are long
Musical Elements:
Tonality: Major and Minor later a little bit after the piano begins to play
Texture: Homophonic throughout
Tempo: Allegro
Timbre:
Woodwinds, Brass,and strings
Duple simple
various amounts of crescendos
move separated than legato
Musical Structure:
Very periodic, trade off between section every two measure
Today, I am going to be analyzing Lady Gaga's Fugue and comparing it to the Bach's "Little Fugue" in G minor. I will be looking for each subject, and finding out what key it's in. After that, I will answer some questions.
Subjects:
Measure 1: i
Measure 6: iii
Measure 15: i
Measure 24: VII
Measure 26: V
Measure 32: VIIb2
Measure 36: VI
Measure 54: ii
Measure 57: i
2. While examining both Bach's "Little" Fugue and LG Fugue, I found some similarities. One of the major things that I noticed is the form in regards to the key structure. Similar to the LG Fugue, Little modulates to major keys near the middle of the piece and modulates back to the minor keys at the end of the piece. For the most part , the LG fugue does not modulate into different into close keys like Little. Most of the modulations in Little are mostly closely-related keys.
3. I think that most of the Barque composers would kind of like this piece. While being similar in starting key and form, I think that most of the Barque composers would disagree with some of the modulations (i.e VIIb2).
Today, I will be doing another listening journal and this time I will be listening to Conzona Sonare No.2 By Gabrieli. I am playing a brass arrangement of this piece, so I already know what it sounds like.
Musical Elements
Tonality: Major
Timbre: All brass, Tuba, Trombone, Trumpet (airohpones)
Texture: Polyphonic
Duple Simple
Tempo: Moderate speed
Musical Structure
Turnary
A (0:00-0:28)
B (0:29-1:44)
A (1:45-end)
Modulates in the B section and then cadences back to the A section
Overall very repetitive and imitative. The melody is passed around each instrument many times
Musical Techniques
decrescendo in the B section and gets loader in the A section
all of the moving parts were clearly loader than the other parts
Musical Context
Baroque Era
Italian
Canzona, an imitative style of music
I'm back again with another musical analysis, but this time it will be on the Baroque era of music, specifically the opera "L'Orfeo" by Monteverdi. I will only be analyzing for musical elements this time around from "0.45-2:21"
Timbre: Brass instruments, string instruments and percussion (intranaphones, chordophones, membranophones respectively). The harp, lute, and recorder also make an appearance in this work
Hello, I'm back again with another blog about music, this time we will be focusing on Renaissance music. The song that is "Canzon septimi toni" by Giovanni Gabrieli.
Musical Elements
Tonality is Major
Timbre has only instruments, some one string, brass, and woodwinds
Polyphonic, many parts are moving at different times while a violin/fiddle is playing over the lower instruments
Triple simple meter
Musical Structure
The main structure of this song is continuous because it is a madrigal.
Musical Techniques
The different phrases or melodic ideas are separated by a cadence after each phrase.
Musical Context
in the Renaissance era
Italian Madrigal
Secular
Today I will be doing another composition, this time on a somewhat newer composer than Perotin, the person that I listened to last time. The song that I will be listening to is "Ave Maria".
Musical Elements:
Overall, the texture is polyphonic.
This song is in a round between 4 parts
4 part choir, 2 females, 2 males
In duple meter
Tonality throughout the whole piece is mostly major
Musical Structure:
Starts off with 4 voices, and changes the melody 3 different times
Hello I'm back again and now I have finally finished my Extended Analysis. For my analysis, I only analyzed a small portion of the piece up to a the first cadence (8th Measure). Even though my Analysis was quite short, I did have a hard time analyzing this piece. I think one of the things that was very unique about this piece was that this song did not follow the rules. One of the challenging was noticing the different kinds of chords. There were chords that added different noes within a key, such as adding a 6th when there is a triad of the 1st, 3rd, and 5th scale degrees. Also, another thing that was different was that there were some missing notes in a chords and voice leading that was hard to understand. For example, a chord that I would have trouble is a C Major chord that had a missing E and only had the notes C and G. Because this was in the key of Eb Minor, it was hard to distinguish when there was a key change and when there was a modulation throughout the piece. Because there were accidentals in the piece and along with the chords that were not recognizable, I knew that here was a modulation. The last thing that I would like to note was the aspect of this piece that I liked the most, the dissonance of this piece. Even though this piece this piece was in Eb Minor, relative to Cb Major, this piece still sounded great. It is a common misconception that more dissonance is less pleasing to the human ear. If dissonance is in the right context, then it will sound great to anyone that listens to it. Overall, this extended analysis has been a great assignment that showed me a lot of new things about music that I have not realized before. I would love to analyze another piece of music, because I know that I will learn something new.
