Piano Studio Critique
On April 8th, 2016, I attended the “IU South Bend Piano Studio” concert at IUSB. It was performed at Louise E. Addicott and Yatish Joshi Performance Hall in Northside Building. The concert music was picked from a selection of composers who composed during the Classical and Romantic period. There were music pieces (selected movements) by Ludwig Beethoven, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Sergei Prokofiev, and, Claude Debussy. Current students from the IUSB Music department were the ones playing the piano. Each one had a strong ability with the piano, which delivered the music in an amazing way with great combinations of rhythm and the different scales of major and minor. All pieces varied with time range based on the movements, as some were
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The composer of this piece was Ludwig van Beethoven, who is considered one of the significant figures in the classical world of music. It was a piece mixed with varied variations, and the piece started in the minor scale. That aside, the piece was very arrhythmic. It started with a mixture of tones built with a mysterious melody, and with varied pitches and tempo. The piece was composed in such a way that it mixed minor and major scales at the middle of the piece, which was distracting for me to follow the rhythm of the piece. The development section, which was fast paced and played in a minor scale, was very unstable, which didn’t give quality to the sound. Another reason the piece was my least favorite was because of its inconsistency, which didn’t maintain the level of the tune and tone, and with inconsistent change in minor and major scales in the beginning and at the end of the …show more content…
It was one of three preludes played that night by Siwon Kim, and it was from Debussy’s Book 2. This piece was amazingly structured combined with rondo like structure, following every single beat and rhythm of the music. I believe the name itself gives amazing art to the piece. It gave the concert an electrifying and satisfactory ending. The texture was structured in a homophonic way and created with harmonious music, giving a unique impression to the whole. Other advantages of this piece were the use of its typical color and sound, which set an amazing feeling and ended with stunning
The composer of this piece was Ludwig van Beethoven, who is considered one of the significant figures in the classical world of music. It was a piece mixed with varied variations, and the piece started in the minor scale. That aside, the piece was very arrhythmic. It started with a mixture of tones built with a mysterious melody, and with varied pitches and tempo. The piece was composed in such a way that it mixed minor and major scales at the middle of the piece, which was distracting for me to follow the rhythm of the piece. The development section, which was fast paced and played in a minor scale, was very unstable, which didn’t give quality to the sound. Another reason the piece was my least favorite was because of its inconsistency, which didn’t maintain the level of the tune and tone, and with inconsistent change in minor and major scales in the beginning and at the end of the …show more content…
It was one of three preludes played that night by Siwon Kim, and it was from Debussy’s Book 2. This piece was amazingly structured combined with rondo like structure, following every single beat and rhythm of the music. I believe the name itself gives amazing art to the piece. It gave the concert an electrifying and satisfactory ending. The texture was structured in a homophonic way and created with harmonious music, giving a unique impression to the whole. Other advantages of this piece were the use of its typical color and sound, which set an amazing feeling and ended with stunning