MUS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Percussion Instrument, Jennifer Higdon, Wind Instrument

• School: University of Kentucky
• Department: Music
• Course: MUS 100
• Professor: Yingchao Han

Document Summary

Wolfgang amadeus mozart: born into a family of musicians, child prodigy, worked in the court of the salzburg prince-archbishop, became less popular in final years. Lived and worked in vienna as a freelance composer. Wind chamber music: written form woodwind and/or brass instruments, early wind chamber music was written for light entertainments, wind chamber music usually has a larger ensemble, since one wind instrument cannot play a chord. Erenade in b flat major (cid:862)gran partita(cid:863), k. 361: written for a large ensemble of 13 instruments, has 7 movements, movement 3. Wind quintets: two types: woodwind quintet. Flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon: brass quintet. Tuba: two most common types of wind chamber music, appeared in the 19th century. Iii: written in 1961, contains multiple interplay between instruments, some melodies are in a fanfare fashion, texture shifts between tutti and solo melody with accompaniment. Jennifer higdon: zaka: similar to many modern chamber music, written for nonstandard ensemble with percussions.