Music Report Assignment | College Homework Help
For this assignment, you will need to plan ahead. You must attend a symphony orchestra concert, opera, or musical in order to complete it. As long as it is a symphony orchestra concert, opera, or a musical, any event is OK. If you go to a musical, try to find a “professional” rather than a “community” production. In any case, you must find a way to see the orchestra at some point in the performance (they are usually in the “pit”—and yes, that’s what it’s called…the pit).
Your Assignment
Write the equivalent of a 2-3 page report giving a review of the concert you attended. Your review must include the following:
What kind of listener were you at the concert? Why?
What pieces were performed?
What was the style of each of the pieces performed?
What was the instrumentation of the orchestra?
Draw out the seating arrangement of the instruments in the orchestra.
Analyze 3-4 pieces played during the concert using the following criteria from the course:
Unity & Variety
Structure of the Music
Purpose of the Music
Tempo
Volume
Rhythm
Melody
Harmony
Form
Historical Period
Did you enjoy the concert? Why or why not?
I put together 7 ‘concerts’ with youtube links. Each is about 60 minutes long although the Nutcracker ballet is over an hour and a half. You can also mix and match as long as you come up with about an hour’s worth of listening. Each piece include information about the composer and the piece you are listening to.
I have also attached the “How to Write a Concert Report” information. Some of it no longer applies like Concert Etiquette, but if you watch some of the symphonies that play the complete work, you will see how the audience doesn’t clap between movements, etc.
Youtube online concert videos (each concert is approximately 60 minutes long) You need to listen to all the works assigned to each concert, or if you mix and match, you need to come up with about an hour’s worth of listening.
Concert No. 1 option
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Eine Kleine Nachtsmusik 1st movement (5 ½ min)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 5 in c minor, Op. 67 (35 1/2 min)
also has some information on the piece and lists the titles of the 4 movements
Maurice Ravel, Bolero (17 ½ min )
