ipl-logo

Bach-Brahm Concert Report

831 Words4 Pages

Bach-Brahm Project Concert No.1
Did you know that Joel Schoenhals, Professor of piano at Eastern Michigan University, is a foreign expert at Central China Normal University in Wuhan, Hubei, China? I was able to attend his Bach-Brahm Project Concert on September 23rd in Pease Auditorium at Eastern Michigan University, not only to enjoy the music, but to hear and understand the piano in different major and minor keys on a professional level. It mainly focused on him playing the piano and gave really interesting facts about piano music history. In this paper, I will be discussing what the different major and minor keys signify for each different mood, the two main composers Joel Schoenhals played, and how this event relates to my UNIV and speech class.
I had intermediate knowledge going into this event because I was a former aristocrat in high school and had to listen and perform in different major keys. We mostly performed a lot of Bach music, so I understand how bouncy and happy his music is and what chords to play. Although aristocrat was …show more content…

Of course the piano sounds beautiful even when you are just listening for fun or just playing chords together, but with doing that, you really miss the true meaning of each composer 's piano’s mood and sound. I would definitely recommend this event to other EMU students because it is a way to relax your mind and really have a peaceful time. It would also be a good event to attend because you will understand the concepts of the piano’s true sound when playing different music. All in all, Schoenhals performance has influenced me in many different ways, such as opening my ears and really paying attention to each major and minor key choice, helping me understand that I am more of an aural learner, and giving me information about two classical

Show More
Related
232 Words | 1 Pages

Johannes Sebastian Bach was born into a family with a musical reputation in his birth town of Eisnach. His uncle, Johann Christoph Bach was a well known organist and his father a court trumpeter for the Duke of Eisenach, he had many mentors and influences in his life that helped him develop his musical talents . Bach grew up surrounded by music and began his studies in violin and harpsichord a very young age, taught by his father. Bach had experience playing the organ and singing in choirs, as he sang with his Latin Grammar School and was recognized for his, “uncommonly fine treble voice”. At the age of nine, Bach’s parents passed away within a nine month span of each other.

Read More
1192 Words | 5 Pages

Bach worked as a composer for royalty in Germany during the Weimar and Baroque period and contributed over 200 original cantatas. Bach was most well known for playing the organ, and his most important work contributed to music was The Well-tempered Keyboard that involved 48 preludes and fugues, a pair for each major and minor key. The significance of his work was the full range of keys used and the distinct difference from each key. Towards the end of Bach’s life he performed for the court of King Fredrick II and was beloved in Prussia. At the end of his life Bach had composed over 1,000 works and was a major influence on Haydn and Mozart.

Read More
400 Words | 2 Pages

A.Y. Jackson Piano Night Review Love, peace, beauty, romance, all expressed on one night by one single instrument. Decorated with lighted candles, the gorgeous A.Y. Jackson piano night started at 7:00 p.m. on the 29th of September. The overall performances were great and astonishing although some performed better than others. Some of the best performances of the night are Pathétique Sonata and All of Me which are the two performances that will be closely examined in this review. To begin with, composed by Ludwig van Beethoven, Pathétique Sonata was amazingly performed by Cynthia Jiang on the piano night.

Read More
518 Words | 3 Pages

Every Sonata gold medal was rewarded with congratulations from my parents and my teacher. What was considered “great” piano playing was how closely one could interpret the sheet music of Rachmonioff or Beethoven. It

Read More
495 Words | 2 Pages

DSO: Mozart’s “Little Night Music” Reaction I attended the Sunday performance of Mozart’s “Little Night Music” performed by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. This was the first time I’ve been to the Orchestra Hall and the venue was awe inspiring. I was seated on the main floor before the show even began I was just taking in the scene. Just the style of the room made me feel like I had taken a step back in time. The conductor of the performance was Leonard Slatkin.

Read More
1094 Words | 5 Pages

The harpsichord part develops as a revelation than an evolution: The centrality of the harpsichord part is suggested early, but only becomes obvious once the rest of the ensemble has quieted. This reading is incompatible with McClary 's claim that the harpsichord 's emergence and so-called hijacking of the work represents the rise of the bourgeoisie because that would suggest the bourgeoisie had always had a stronghold on economic and political power that suddenly decided to reveal itself. An important qualification on my rejection of McClary 's interpretation is that my reading of the work depends highly on visual elements and possibly stylistic choices of the recording and performers. For example, the choice to show the pan frequently to the harpsichordist as in Excerpt 1 highlights the harpsichordist 's hands in masterful control both corroborate my view of the harpsichordist in contrast to McClary 's. More generally, this disparity problematizes many aspects of interpreted historical works of music by suggesting that such interpretations depend not only one 's individual experience with the work but also the stylistic choices of the people interpreting it removed from its original context. Without Bach behind the harpsichord, both the character he plays as the harpsichordist and how we should interpret the

Read More
1078 Words | 5 Pages

There are many ways in which dance influenced music composed during the baroque period. This essay will explore the dances that spread from the french court of Louis XIV to Germany and particularly to the music of JS Bach. The French culture had a huge influence on music in Germany in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The Thirty Years War, between 1618 and 1648, had destroyed most of Germany.

Read More
236 Words | 1 Pages

In A Streetcar Named Desire, music is used as a mood setter of the scene and as a source of characterization of the characters. Tennessee Williams plays Blue Piano in moments that evokes passion, enthusiasm and passion. Blue Piano was played in the opening scene where the character Stanley and Stella was introduced. It was used to introduce the type of setting A Streetcar Named Desire was set in and it overall set the mood of the play. The presentation of Blue Piano played a vital role in the audiences first impression of the play, with its happy, and spiritful tune.

Read More
229 Words | 1 Pages

Benjamin Zander is a music conductor and a composer. His main goal in his Ted talk was to make everybody understand that “classical music” is indeed for everybody and all can pertain to it. Some of the most fascinating points he makes is that all of us can relate to classical music. He is definite about the fact that the love for classical music is there in all of us except people have just not understood it still.

Read More
702 Words | 3 Pages

Before this I had never attended a classical concert, so this was a new experience for me. This concert was worthwhile because not only was it affordable, it was also great for the price. Each song made me feel different, I could sense the emotion coming from these songs and the way the musicians played together added a feeling of satisfactory altogether. The venue had a large impact on the performance. The Nightingale Concert Hall provided great acoustics for the performances and fit well with the overall style of the concert.

Read More
1447 Words | 6 Pages

Even though some of the compositions were written slightly earlier and later revised, it was in Kothen that Bach’s sonatas for violin and clavier, sonatas for viola da gamba, and works for unaccompanied violin and cello were most likely put into their present form. The Brandenburg Concertos were completed by 721, and in the sixth concerto, Bach kept in mind the Prince’s technical limitations on the viola da gamba. Bach chose to play the viola as he preferred to be “in the middle” of the harmony. He also composed numerous cantatas for the Prince’s birthday as well as other occasions – most of these cantatas survived only in later versions and have been adapted since. (Emery & Marshall,

Read More
1253 Words | 6 Pages

A B C D C B A. Rhythmically this work has two distinctive features: the regular pulse of the piano and percussion and the rhythm of the human breathing in the vocal and wind parts, and the interaction between them brings about a remarkable effect of wave motion. The vibraphone player in this piece functions as a “conductor” by indicating when the players have to switch from one section to the next, or when the harmony or melody should change within a

Read More
2476 Words | 10 Pages

Introduction The year 1685 was iridescent in the historical backdrop of European music, because it saw the conception of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1757). Hence, the date 1685 took on the part of the marker, dividing the music of essential listening background called "early music. " The height of Bach's development started in the nineteenth century, where he created an instrumental medium, the ripieno string ensemble.

Read More
1054 Words | 5 Pages

Overall Glenn Gould has made two versions, the 1955 version and later the 1981 version that was made on Bachs 300th anniversary shortly before Goulds own death. In this essay I will be discussing the 1955 recording in more detail .The essay will include talk on the performers interpretation of this work , musical features with slight comparison to the 1981 version to conclude I will discuss my opinion on whether or not the 1955 recording was a failure or a success. Goulds 1955 recordings style had a remarkable and virtuosic technique. It has a style that was new to the world of music, he introduced a method that was unique for example throughout his variations he involved staccatissimo , a musical style in which is heard after the Aria ends, it comes across as and exaggerration on staccato notes in order to give the effect of quickness brief and the sense of detachment, they are distinctive notes.

Read More
1614 Words | 7 Pages

There are several theories that regard where and when the music originated. The historiographers pointed out that there are different periods of music with each period having its own characteristics, its composers, its instruments, its rhythm and significance to the existing music today. The first three periods; Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque are expounded in this essay. The periods span through different times albeit some overlapped one another. The essay also focuses on the common factor that triggered the existence of the music periods and its impacts on each period.

Read More

More about Bach-Brahm Concert Report

Related Topics

Open Document