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Music final - could not attend a live performance so we listene to one on youtube this was
Music Appreciation (HUMA 118)
Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana
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Concert Report
Sherri Lang Ivy tech Community College HUNA118-Music Appreciation Professor Lyon May 16, 2020
Listening and watching the video of Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic perform
Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4 was not what I expected. I felt like I was relaxing on a beautiful
spring day, enjoying nature at its best. Feeling of peace, serenity, joy, turmoil, sadness just a
few of feelings I felt listening to this piece. In the beginning you feel like relaxing and just
thinking about a spring day watching a butterfly flitter by. Next when the music seems to
hairpin into a crescendo, I visualize the butterfly being chased and fleeing as fast as it can to get
away. Next, I see the clouds rolling in and darkening a storm is brewing and my mind is racing
what should I do. The music begins hairpin then the crescendo the storm is here, and then just
like that diminuendo. I really enjoyed the winds in this piece and the strings leading into the
brass sounds. The piece seemed to always capture my attention as if I was that butterfly and
trying to get away. The hairpins, crescendos and diminuendos in the is piece to me really made
this piece. I really enjoyed the dynamics, the texture and the tones used throughout the piece.
The last five minutes I felt as if I was that butterfly flying swiftly to get away and then catching
my breath breathing easy just to begin fleeing all over again. The strings, the winds and the
percussions at the end sent chills through me.
Movement l (0:36-9:23)
1 mood of this movement is “Fate”. Here is where you here the struggle with horns and then it is extended by the lower bass and then upper bass and in the end the horns make a decrescendo. Then the extension of this mood are the clarinets and bassoon, The bridge orchestration from brass to woodwinds is soft being played by cellos and violins. I see a butterfly flying peacefully in the air then frantically fluttering and flitting as if to save its life. I see a man/woman pondering life while sitting on a park bench. Where is my life going and how can I stop the direction it is heading? During the section 10:59- 13:53 I see a person running for their life as fast as they can and then finally coming to a safe place and just collapsing from sheer exhaustion. In this movement I saw mainly images of serenity turning to panic, confusion and then back to relief/comfort.
Movement ll (19:36-30:02)
- The oboe is the instrument featured in the beginning.
- The went from a gloom and doom mood, to more of a sadness or melancholy making you reflect on what could have been regretting the past. But hoping not to begin over just change things. Life can be tiring, and it is ok to just stop and smell the roses. It is just nice to rest and remember Happy is when we were young, and life was easy, and we felt alive and doing. There are also painful memories, losses we can’t get back.
- The dynamics of the oboe at the beginning set the orchestral/tome color by being very dominate at the beginning. Next the full orchestra plays what we hear as blended music soft on the ear. The instruments don’t seem to overpower each other, but we do hear the distinct difference in the sound of a brass, wind and strings even though the mood is still the same. It takes from the feeling of the end during movement one to a more of a reminiscing of how things could have been. Around the end of the movement he goes back to the oboe and has feeling that melancholy feeling again with it being the instrument changing the dynamics of this piece as he did at the beginning of the movement. The wistful simple melodies that are played in this movement have us reflection on the bittersweet and bit painful memories of life.
Music final - could not attend a live performance so we listene to one on youtube this was
Course: Music Appreciation (HUMA 118)
University: Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana
