Listening guide page 208 Mozart: Piano Concerto in G major, K. 453, First Movement
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i. Why do classical pieces tend to be long and popular pieces tend to be short?
ii. Why do you think the piano waits so long to come in at the opening of the piece?
iii. Describe the “cadenza” near the end of the piece.
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the only first movement listed is a piano solo, i think its the wrong one.
i. Classical pieces tend to be longer firstly because they are typically instrumental where as pop music has vocals. Eventually you run out of things to sing about. (Unless it's opera...which isn't pop.)
Also I think the time period had a lot to do with it. Today we live in a fast paced society. So we get restless when things are lengthy. It doesn't matter what it is.
Finally, I think that just the style has to do with it. Classical music allows for a little more variety in a piece. The arrangement of popular music includes a lot of repetition without variation. So people would get bored of hearing the exact same thing over and over again.
*Unless your pentecostal and sing the same chorus for hours on end.
ii. The candenza was just the piano by itself. It was kind of longer than I thought it would be. The range was very wide, hitting high notes and very low notes.
iii.The piano waits because it leaves the music for an introduction. The is the feature intrument in this pieace. So everyone will take note when the piano begins to play.
i. Because then, people used music for entertainment. Its like tv shows and movies. Back then, music was like a movie. If someone is watching a movie, they are there for that purpose, and they are going to be focused and pay attention. Now, music is more like a tv show. When people listen to music, they are often distracted by other things (ae. driving, doing homework, cleaning, exercising) Therefore the music has to accommodate that. It must be short, exciting/entertaining, and it must try to keep the listeners attention.
ii. It makes the listener think for a brief second that the piece will be slow.
iii. it reminds me of a harp.
With popular music, it only has one point...the lyrics are to tell a message. You can only repeat words so many times and then it is time to end the song. Classical music is all about the instruments, not the vocal, and you use more imagination with classical pieces. You dont have someone telling you what he song is about....you make it whatever you want it to be.
I guess that the piano waits so long to come in because they wanted a very soft intro..with the strings and the piano brought out the boldness of the piece. At the end the piano is the main instrument.
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Classical pieces tend to be long because of the time period in which they were created. Everything was slow and long, and even monotonious sometimes. Popular pieces are more to the point in a fast paced society like today.
I think that the piano waiting so long was a strategic move to try and get away from monotony because if you have to listen to 10 minutes of similar music, you WILL fall asleep. It changes it up a little.
The solo near the end of the piece wraps it all up nicely because it makes it return to the beginning of the piece, very peaceful and mellow, and it just sounds finished. It resolves i guess you could say.
i. The obvious answer would be that today, we are all ADD and cannot listen to long songs. But actually, I think popular pieces tend to be shorter because it's vocal. Even many of the leider in the Romantic period tend to be shorter with vocals. Symphonies are able to express many emotions, rather than popular music that usually addresses only one.
ii. The piano waits so long because it wants to be spotlighted in the cadenza.
iii. The cadenza is certainly an impressive showcase of the pianists talent. It closes the entire piece in a great manner.
classiscal music is long because it expresses many emotions. popular msic focuses on one emotion so it is shorter.
the piano waits so long to come in because it needs a grand enrance, that way it is more dramatic and it gets more attention.
it ends very nicely and resolved.
I think people with classical music where just following the trend of the day and the trend of that day was longer and more complex pieces where now days the trend is to produce something new and fresh that catches peoples attention. How many people has the attention span to listen to anything that's over 5 min long and get it?
I don't know why the piano waits so long.
The music gets really exciting and wild and then it ends with the piano going out in a bang.
i. we don't have the patience that people had during the classical music was written. Today many of the classical composers would get walked out on.
ii. I think the piano waits because it is the main instrument so it makes it more distinguished.
ii. I think it sounds a lot like today's solos, the rest of the music gets quiet and then one shows off. nice way to bring the song to an end.
Well, I believe that the reason that popular music today is shorter because "our" music is somewhat dumbed down and if the more popular pieces of today were to be as long as the classical pieces we would get bored with them because we would hear the same four notes over and over again. Unlike in classical pieces that are totally and utterly consumed with notes and diffrent themes, tones, and personality. Although Im not saying that the popular pieces of today have no personality, but the personality of today is not as thick and rich as the personality of the classical pieces
I have no clue why the piano took so long to come in in this piece. I would wait as long as possible to come in if I were playing because it sounds hard to play hehe...
The Cadenza at the end of the piece is very complex and unseddling in the since that the piano just sounds like it wants to end the song but at the same time it seems like the song doesn't want to end.
I. The main reason for this I believe is that we are a part of a completely different style period. We are not a part of the Romantic era or similar eras who appreciated the excrusiatingly long concerts that last for hours on end, and the really enjoyed the concept of the music they listened to. Society as a whole today doesn't have time for that. We as a society want things to happen wuickly to fit within our schedule, therefore I believe that is the cause for our music being shorter making it less to think about and search your emotions to find the true meaning.
II. Because it gives a very dramatic and purposed spotlight, in a sence for the introduction of the piano into the peice, establishing its importance to the peice of music.
III. The peice finishes it off with the piano as the spotlight in the true since of it being the solo. It emphasizes the skill of the piano soloist and resolves nicely.
i. I think it has to do with our attention spans. Today's era is consumed with entertainment and the "I want it now" attitude.
ii. I think it waited to come it because it was the main instrument. It makes the solo more dramatic.
iii. All the instruments stop playing except for the piano. It made the piano have free time without the other instruments.
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