On February 13, 2019 I was provided the amazing opportunity to go and appreciate the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, Gabriel Faur\u00e9, Franz Liszt and Sergei Prokofiev\u2019s performed by David Jalbert on the piano.\u00a0 I found this experience to be enriching and more enjoyable to listen to since we have been learning about different textures and forms of music from the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Baroque.\u00a0 I was completely blown away by the speed and dexterity of which Jalbert was able to move around, up and down the keyboard.\u00a0 He is incredibly talented and I am so grateful I had the opportunity to see a piano performance live.\u00a0 There is something about being in the atmosphere and the room of a theatre space that is strikingly different than just listening to songs that have been previously recorded.\u00a0 The beautiful sounds of the piano filled the Barnett Hall and I would be lying if I said I wouldn\u2019t be able to sit there for another hour listening to the sweet sounds of the keys.\u00a0 Moreover, there were many elements of the four works that Jalbert performed in which I would have never noticed if I hadn\u2019t been educated and informed of the specific elements to listen for in the songs.\u00a0 There were four songs that Jalbert beautifully performed:<\/p>\n
There were three songs that Jalbert performed that I felt I was able to connect with on a more intellectual level stemming from the concepts we have been learning in music class.\u00a0 In Bach\u2019s Toccata in C Minor, the use of imitative polyphony was very evident.\u00a0 It was in this moment that concepts from the course provoked me to wonder:\u00a0 Since Bach was a Lutheran composer of the Baroque era, why was he using imitative polyphony?\u00a0 Was this evidence of the old entering the new \u2013 or perhaps evidence of \u201cSecond Practice\u201d?<\/p>\n
L\u00e9gende No. 2 \u201cSt-Fran\u00e7ois de Paule: marchant sur les flots\u201d by Liszt and Sonata No. 4 in C minor, Op. 29 \u201cAfter old notebooks\u201d by Prokofiev greatly reminded me of what we have been learning about Purcell and Opera Seria or perhaps H\u00e4ndel\u2019s Oratorio, \u201cIsrael in Egypt\u201d.\u00a0 I felt that when listening to these pieces, that there was a story being told.\u00a0Likewise to these two works, there was emotion and expression put in to the music such as pounding sounds on the bottom half of the keyboard to demonstrate feelings such as impending doom or a sort of heaviness.\u00a0 This contrasted light, quick moving melodies on the top of the keyboard, demonstrating more happy and sprightly feelings.\u00a0 This also reminded me how Purcell and H\u00e4ndel\u2019s works were put on in small spaces with low-budgets and how the music had to demonstrate emotion within itself through its texture and form.<\/p>\n
All in all, I found this to be a fruitful experience.\u00a0 I am looking forward to attending many more concerts in the future and being able to apply all my new knowledge towards the appreciation of music.<\/p>\n
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