Category: Illustrative and Film Music
Title: Gabriel's Oboe from the movie 'The Mission'
Composer: Ennio Morricone
Features:
- Melody on oboe
- AA1 form
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Title: Theme from Star Wars
Composer: John Williams
Features:
Trumpet Fanfares
Changes in tonality and mood
Dynamic Changes
The composer wishes to illustrate the main characters/story through this piece.
Opening...
fanfares = triumph, change to minor key and march rhythm = imperial army and Darth Vader (dark/evil characters)
Lyrical melody = luke skywalker...hero of the movie
Category: Dance Movements
Title: 'Sabre Dance' From Gayaneh Suite (Ballet)
Composer: Khatchaturian
Features:
- Use of Percussion (snare drum, tambourine, cymbal).
- syncopation
Category: Theme and Variations in the Irish, Jazz or Classical Repetoire
Piece: Take Five
Composer: Dave Brubeck
Performed by: The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Features
- Syncopation
- 5/4 time
- Improvisation on tune on saxaphone
- Drum 'break'
- A break is a solo jazz improvisation
Category: Overtures, Preludes and Intermezzi
Piece: Overture to the Opera 'The Barber of Seville'
Composer: Rossini
An overture is piece of music heard before the curtain goes up. It gives the audience a taste of the music that will follow in the opera or stage musical.
Features:
- Dramatic chords at the start
- Major and minor tonality
- Changes in dynamics
Category: Movements from Classical Symphonies, Symphonic Suites and Orchestral works
Piece: Movement I from Symphony No. 5 in C Minor
Composer: Beethoven
Features:
- ABA Form (Sonata Form)
- Dramatic changes in dynamics
- Minor and Major tonality
This video gives a better view of the orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jh-E5m01wY
Category: Orchestrally Accompanied Instrumental and Vocal Music
Piece: If I Can Dream
Performer: Elvis Presley (with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra)
Composer: Walter Earl Brown
Features:
Key Change
Large Orchestra and Backing Vocals
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