Music Appreciation Quotes

(These are excerpts from concert reviews by students in music appreciation classes)

The melody was plaid for the most part...

This piece got my attention from begging to end.

Before [the piece] started, all of the women excited the stage...

The horsachord was used in this piece.

The [melody] includes chronic scales...

[The piece] began with pluckola by the violins.

It starts... maderato.

The piano is in sink with the voice...

When the orchestra begins, they are pianissimo, and retarded.

...tenor vices join in.

It sounded similar to Russian music such as the Nut Cracked Suite.

At the same time Bernadette Peters was dancing to the melodic hormone and instrumental rhythm...

... there were schwartzandos...

Blasts from the timothy drums are heard...

Five strikes of barbells followed...

Then the two instruments play in unicef...

The mood is calm and Gentile throughout.

The flute plays a credenza...

The orchestra played ... throughout this whole arraignment...

It would be better to see the opera perfumed in Italian.

Stravinsky has been dubbed the greatest composer of the 20th century. His works have influenced composers for 3 centuries.

Robert Schumann ... wanted to become a virtuoso but became a composer because of a disabling finger.

Haydn was fascinated with flatuates...

Bach's music was mostly in homographic texture.

[Tchaikovsky] was composed when he was very young.

Chamber music is music written for 2 to 8 players. It does not need a composer.

The four basic vocal ranges are "bass, mid-bass, middle range, and tweet."

The concert was one of the best I have ever heard. It was my first concert like this...

In the middle of the piece, the soprano and tenor did a troll.

1st movement is a duel between the piano and the jello. Jello played vibrato, tremelo, and harmonics while the piano played as a accompaniment. (from a description of the Britten "Jello" Sonata in C, Op. 65)

The bong, generally, adds to the music.

The notes were staccato and they used the thrill technique with this movement

The tenth movement is [performed] with heaving concentration on the bras section.The trumpets whaled in the distance...

[This piece is] polymorphic in texture.