Listening Journal #7 Conzona

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

Listening Journal #6 Monteverdi

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 

Texture: Heterophoic

Tonality: Major

Meter: Duple simple

Listening Journal #5

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