COMPOSER: Franz Schubert
As the music plays, it is evident that at each stanza where the two performers, a pianist and the singer. Instruments used is a piano and vocal. The rhythm employed by Schubert is what makes the song a success. There is use of ostinato but in series of repeated triplets. There is a suspense which is created by the allegro pace created by the rhythm. There is three ascending triplet and this is followed by the same number of crotchets.
There is also the use of contour. Initially, the contour is stable and steady and then it changes to be fast and unstable. There is the narrator, who begins in a minor mode. The voice appears in the middle range. In the higher range, I hear the son, also in the minor range. In the end, ostinato bass triplets breaks by a vocal line in major mode. The music starts with high tempo, evident by piano rapid triplets. There is an introduction of leitmotif; successive triplets by the piano. As the music approaches the end, it quickens shortly and then slows.
The music is well connected, instruments and the vocal. This part is what I like most. The two players understand each other and bring emotional part by altering the vocals and tempo.
Title: Idée Fixe
Aria: symphony
Song: Symphonie fantastique
Composer: Hector Berlioz
The instruments employed in this kind of music are numerous. Flutes, trumpets, cornets, harps, English horn, oboes, piccolo, timpani, strings, strings and bassoons. There is use of indee Fixe. Tempo changes as per the specific movement. Five movements are evident from this symphony. This include the dream of the Sabbath, passion, a ball, scene in the fields and March of scaffold. It employs the melody of indee fixe.
As the music starts, Largo is used, which is followed by allegro. In the first movement, there is the use of the flute. The sound is mellifluous making the tune warm. As it advances in time, the tempo changes. It begins to escalade evident by dramatic crescendo, creating tension. Then a staccato rhythm appears, which is made of string instrument. It just emerges, but do not overlap between the first melody and the second crescendo. Towards the end, indee fixe overlaps with sound of strings but there is overlapping. It becomes busier and polyphonic, creating more tense that the earlier one. Inde fixe promptly returns. In the end, there is the somber melody, called Dies Irae. Each instrument has specific emotional attributes.
In the second movement, indee fixe reappears. It begins by slow tempo, then it quickly gets complicated by numerous instruments. A wind instrument then takes the center stage. In the subsequent movements, there is various forms of indee fexe, soft and darks sounds that overlaps.
What I like about this music is that despite the use of a lot of musical instruments, there is harmony and all interact seamlessly. The sue of leitmotif and sonata is superb.