Listening & Analysis: Violin Listening Introductory Concepts Essay

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Listening & Analysis: Violin

Listening Introductory Concepts -- the Referential Listener

Clarinet Concerto in a major II. Adagio

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed Clarinet Concerto in A major II for the clarinetist Anton Stadler. The musical work is classical and consists of three movements in the fast-slow-fast form or allegro-adagio-allegro. The work exhibits Mozart's delicate and purely instrumental approach. The interplay between the orchestra and the soloist is characterized by clarity, balance, and transparency. The soloist's role is introverted as there are no cadenzas in the piece. From a the perspective of a referential listener, the piece causes me to associate with mountain and valley vistas that I have encountered when hiking. It is precisely that moment when one deliberately slows one's pace as the scene comes into view. Memories of the view are associated with the aroma of the plants crushed under booted feet, the feel of the breeze that almost cools the brow, the counterpoint of a hawk's cry as it rides the updraft. In fact, this variation perceived by the listener is the musical concept that Mozart has employed.

Analysis Putting Things Together -- Principles of Unity and Variety

Sigman and Bonfa, Maha De Carnival

Maha De Carnival represents more than one musical idea. If the construct of musical idea represents the wholeness (unity) of the musical piece, and necessarily encompasses ideas about gestalt (again unity), phrase, theme, motif, harmony, rhythm, and form, then the musical idea is the vision of the composer.

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Moreover, the musical idea is also comprehended in its unity by listener. The musical ideas of Manha De Carnival (a day in the life of a fool) are expressed by Bonfa as jazz and, perhaps, as waltz (a dance piece) because of its passive percussion. Two solos by the saxophone and the trumpet, and then by the oboe and the clarinet, create the changes in the musical ideas, quite dramatically changing the timbre, pitch, and rhythm. The drums create a base rhythm and the other instruments weave their threads through the fabric of the whole. This is definitely ensemble music as much would be lost if the work focused on a solo performer. The rhythms of the Manha De Carnival evoke movement in the listener, such that it connotes some joint celebration. So while the work enables the showcasing of solo instruments in the manner of jazz, the gestalt of the work returns again and again to dance.

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