Listening Assignment One
Benjamin Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra is known to be a beautiful piece of art. Upon doing some research, Henry Purcell was Benjamin’s influencer in creating this music. It was all built on the second movement of the, “Rondeau”, of the Abdelazer suite. However, originally it was meant for an educational documentary film. Benjamin started at a very young age and had many of mentors through his career. He even studied at the Royal College of Music in London. Benjamin was always experimenting with modern musical composition and environments that he revolutionized his area of expertise.
The music starts off with the full orchestra then gradually goes into separate sections. These segments …show more content…
In the second section, he showed themes from each family; woodwinds, strings, brass, and percussion. He tends to do the pitch of the sounds in order whether it’s highest to lowest or lowest to highest. He does this to create different tempi and energies. In the wood wind section, I thought I could hear flute, clarinet, oboes being played. I have personal experience with the flute when I learned how to play it in middle school. The tone color for me is blue. The flute can be high pitch as a singing bird to low pitch as a frog. The strings were my favorite when I could hear the harp, violins, and cellos. The reason of the strings being my preferred is solely based on the harp. The harp is my all-time beloved instrument as it has such a melody and does not need help from others. Sweet sounding and calming effects of the harp compared to the bombing basses create a harmony that even the most diverse instruments can be played together. The percussion was harder for me to make out, but I believe there was the tambourine, triangle, and a cymbal. It was noticeable that he gave special treatment to the timpani and xylophone when he played the percussion instruments. It is rare for me to hear a xylophone in music, so it
Benjamin Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra is known to be a beautiful piece of art. Upon doing some research, Henry Purcell was Benjamin’s influencer in creating this music. It was all built on the second movement of the, “Rondeau”, of the Abdelazer suite. However, originally it was meant for an educational documentary film. Benjamin started at a very young age and had many of mentors through his career. He even studied at the Royal College of Music in London. Benjamin was always experimenting with modern musical composition and environments that he revolutionized his area of expertise.
The music starts off with the full orchestra then gradually goes into separate sections. These segments …show more content…
In the second section, he showed themes from each family; woodwinds, strings, brass, and percussion. He tends to do the pitch of the sounds in order whether it’s highest to lowest or lowest to highest. He does this to create different tempi and energies. In the wood wind section, I thought I could hear flute, clarinet, oboes being played. I have personal experience with the flute when I learned how to play it in middle school. The tone color for me is blue. The flute can be high pitch as a singing bird to low pitch as a frog. The strings were my favorite when I could hear the harp, violins, and cellos. The reason of the strings being my preferred is solely based on the harp. The harp is my all-time beloved instrument as it has such a melody and does not need help from others. Sweet sounding and calming effects of the harp compared to the bombing basses create a harmony that even the most diverse instruments can be played together. The percussion was harder for me to make out, but I believe there was the tambourine, triangle, and a cymbal. It was noticeable that he gave special treatment to the timpani and xylophone when he played the percussion instruments. It is rare for me to hear a xylophone in music, so it