Tag Archives: Concerto

Playing the Clarinet: From Warm-Up Exercises to Standard Repertoire

Many compositions were made for the flute. But many are not nearly as good as others, and therefore do not so well use their time to learn. Here are the best and most common ways to get comfortable in the keys, as well as in the popular and standard repertoire. First, after putting the pipes […]

Beyond the Wedding March: Five Beautiful Alternatives for Your Wedding Recessional March

Your wedding day is likely to be one of the most important and memorable days of your life. A lot of stock is placed on the wedding reception, but what about the ceremony? There are many traditional, and to be honest, quite boring parts of the wedding ceremony that could easily be spruced up to […]

Analysis of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons

For my first listening assignment I chose Vivaldi The Four Seasons, featuring Leonard Bernstein. First I would like to say that I thoroughly enjoyed these concertos. I am pleased that I decided to purchase the CD as opposed to borrowing it. Most of the compositions contain small sections of conjunct notes and larger sections of […]

Changes in Musical Style: The Baroque Era to the Classical Era of Music History

During both the Baroque and Classical periods, much of the same genre of music was written (operas, oratorios, concertos, sonatas, etc.), but the baroque sonata da chiesa (church sonata) was replaced by the solo sonata. Most sonatas were written for keyboards, but some were written for other instruments. The trio sonata, a sonata written for […]