Performance

Performance

• Interprets printed symbols in music

• Combination of composer's intention and performer's own feelings ​

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Do any of your favorite performers come to mind? Wh​at do you enjoy about their performance/interpretation?

Performance

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What elements of performance do you find the most interesting?

• ​music created at the same time it is performed

• seen often in jazz and nonwestern ​music

Improvisation

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• ​ornaments or embellishing notes added by the performer

• meant to reflect the performer's individuality ​

Embellishments

Open Ended

What are some problems that might occur with trying to determine the "composer's intent?" What issues might someone encounter when gathering evidence about how a piece was performed?

• ​special challenges in early repertoire

• it is difficult to find evidence about early performance practice

• musicians use modern instruments to perform this music today ​

Early Music Performance Practice ​

• ​Virtuoso--an artist of extraordinary technical mastery; above and beyond their natural gifts and training

• ​Musicians teach, play in orchestras

• Wages are still very low ​

Performers

Open Ended

Why do you think performers stay in music, even when the work is difficult and poorly paying?

• leader of a group of musicians

• uses a thin stick called a baton to beat time and indicate pulse and tempo

• other hand brings out dynamics, expression, and cues ​

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What other fields or jobs have "conductors?" ​

Conductors

• the principal first violinist

• sits at the conductor's immediate left

• Play solos, checks bowing indications in music, and tunes orchestra ​

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Concertmaster

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Poll

Think of the music you have heard during the past few weeks. How much of it was live and how much was record?

• I only listen to live music. 🎻

• I've listened to both live music and recordings over the last few weeks. 🎶

• Most of my music is through Spotify or other streaming services. 🎧

• I listen to my music using a CD player or a record player. 💿

• usually made up of segments combined from several recordings in the studio

• dubbing--the insertion of sounds, which may be live or prerecorded, that then become part of the resulting piece of music

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Where did people listen to music before recorded music?

Recorded Music

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Open Ended

Why do you think people have turned to recroded music over live performance?

Multiple Select

Notes not written in the printed score that musicians add in performance are called

• Ornamentation

• Embellishments

• Whole Notes

• Wrong Notes

Multiple Choice

What is a baton used for in an orchestra?

• A short stick or tube passed from runner to runner in a relay race

• A long stick carried and twirled by a drum major

• A think stick that conductors use to beat time and indicate pulse and tempo

• A way to beat the musicians who mess up

Fill in the Blanks

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is a leader of a group of musicians.

Multiple Choice

Inserted sounds like beeps, clangs, whistles, never-ending, and other effects, that are added to a piece of music is known as

• noise

• recorded music

• speical effects

• dubbing

Multiple Choice

Who is responsible for tuning the orchestra?

• The percussion section

• The concertmaster

• The audience gets to vote on what pitch to start on

• The conductor

Multiple Choice

What genre(s) contains a lot of improvisation?

• Opera

• Modern Pop Songs

• Jazz

• Atonal Music

Open Ended

Who is responsible for bringing a composer's music to life?