Bassoon Concert Report

This concert was performed in a small hall in the main music building. The performer was a music professor who was doing a bassoon concert. She was accompanied by three other musicians playing the piano, flute, and oboe. Except for the final composition, she only performed with one other instrument at a time. The performance was broken down into 4 songs, each rather long in length. There was a brief intermission in between the first two songs and the remaining two. Most of the songs were long and had the bassoon as the main part and whatever other instrument was playing would be accompanying. The instruments that played alongside the bassoon were higher pitched and were used to counterbalance the low bass sound of the bassoon. The first song, the one with flute accompanying, was slow on the bassoon’s part and faster for the flute. Although the music was very well performed and the professor had great talent, this was not my

This was the only song that had more than one instrument accompanying the bassoon. It almost seemed as though it was a flute and bassoon piece with piano accompanying. The piece was broken into three parts and each part had its own tempo. The first part had a lively tempo and was faster and easier to pay attention to. The second part was slow and sounded more like a ballad. The final part was jaunty and had a very fast rhythm that one could easily distinguish. The piece as a whole has a jazz influence with a little American music influence as well. For me, I did not hear a distinct rhythm throughout out. There was as beat, but not a set rhythm that was repeated or that same as any other part. Polyphonic texture was prominent due to the oboe and the bassoon both playing main parts. Like all of the pieces that were performed there were changes in dynamics: crescendos and decrescendos. This was one of the longest of the four songs, but I guess they saved the best for