Music Concern Report - Essay Example

Music Concert Report On Saturday 2 June I attended a symphony concert in Washington by Black Diamonds. The Symphony was performed at a downtown player’s theatre, which is specially designed to enhance the quality of sounds and harmonics. The main theme seemed rather abrasive and disjointed. High pitched moments were disrupted by sudden jolts of low tones with a regular variation of keys. The aesthetic qualities of the themes were rather enhanced by the intervention of softer pauses, which seemed to resonate well with the external beauties of the Gulf of Mexico.

For a couple of moments, the music seemed to capture cadences of Mexican art in ways that evoke the sensibilities of art as lived and experienced in the traditional forms. The disjunctive chords of the first theme artfully gave way to conjunct chords that morphed into each other in a perfect continuum. Tone, pitch, and rhythm were some of the tools expertly exploited to unite the meaning and beauty of the symphony. There is a sense in which the music achieved some unity in meaning by evoking the emotions of the super-real and somewhat celestial beauties as brought out in the Mexican art forms.

Another telling aspect of the maturity of talent as brought out by the ensemble was manifest in the variations in tone and pitch throughout the course of the music. The auditory qualities seemed to mesh into the imaginative element of the audience hence creating a quality of art that was both arresting and relieving in equal measure. Although parts of the themes at the middle appeared to course in disharmony, there is a sense in which much of the performance achieved a harmonious flow that rose and fell with expertly rendition.

In a way, the themes explored by the chords brought out multiple messages that seemed to fit into the multi-faceted life and troubled life of the artist. One would feel a connection deeper than the casual meanings as brought out in the fragmented beginnings of the themes. The rising and falling of notes was representative of the different phases that marked the tumultuous social life of the performer including his chequered music career. In a way the main theme appeared to be a cathartic and psychological evocation of the artiste’s inner feeling and a deep search for connection with a world that has often remained strange and aloof for him.

There is always a way in which soulful music evokes a sense of yearning for things beyond the physical. Sometimes the music is rendered in such a manner that captures the essence of spiritualism for troubled souls that seek to make amends with the calls of immortality (Schaum 17; Beranek 64; Smith). In both style and technique, the music seemed to bring out the essential elements of art that attach to the quality of music as an effective vehicle for expressing human emotion and feelings. In my assessment, the symphony was one of the most successful uses of art to represent feelings, create and spread the intended message and bring out the aesthetics of art.

In this manner, it would seem that the capacity of a symphony to represent feelings is significantly dependent in the choice of themes, tone, and techniques. From the approving responses of the audience, I concluded that the artiste adroitly combined the aesthetics of the music and the style to capture the sensibilities of the audience.Works CitedBeranek, Leo. Concert Halls and Opera Houses: Music, Acoustics, and Architecture. New York: Springer, 2003Schaum, John, W. Concert Transcriptions: Performance Arrangements.

New York: Alfred Music Publishing, 1995Smith, Joshua, D. Extended Performance Techniques and Compositional Style in the Solo Concert Vibraphone Music of Christopher Deane. New York: ProQuest, 2008