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Listening to Higdon: Blue Cathedral
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Listening to Higdon: Blue Cathedral
Compared to today
About
Blue Cathedral
- Music today focuses more on the listener and their emotional responce. As well as how the composer expresses themselves.
- It is often used to tell a story.
- was commissioned from the Curtis Institute of Music for its 75th anniversary, and was premiered there by the institute's Symphony Orchestra under Robert Spano’s direction on May 1, 2000
- Higdon wrote blue cathedral after the death of her brother and she used her music to reflect those feelings.
- It was written in the postmodern era which doesn't have a particular style or trend but rather is an era where a wide variety of new music was developed.
- had a sectional form with the sections contrasting one another. The song had a lot of emotional appeal and is more audience centered
Texture
While listening for the texture, I tried to find as many different parts in the song as I could and thought about how they fit together.
Works Cited
Here you here the violin leading the melody being accompianed by the bells. Then the flute takes over and mimics the violin, followed by the flute again. This is an example of imitation which is a type of polyphony.
Melody
Rhythm
Schweitzer, V. (2010, April 21). Despite Anxiety and Naysayers,
Composer Wins Her Pulitzer. Retrieved February 05, 2017, from
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/arts/music/22higdon.html?_r=0
Jennifer Higdon. (n,d). Retrieved February 5, 2017, from http://
bso.http.internapcdn.net/bso/images/program_notes/Higdon-blue-cathedral.pdf
Holly, J. (2015, December 01). Post Modernism & Post-Modern Music.
Retrieved February 05, 2017, from http://www.slideshare.net/jpholly/post-modernism-postmodern-music-55698511
When listening for rhythm, I always try to see if I can find a steady beat. I play the track and tap my foot until I find it and if I can't find a steady beat then I assume there isn't one.
When listening for the melody in this piece, I listened to the part that drew my attention the most. I listened
to how that part moved and
thought of words that
could describe it.
Here I could very clearly hear the flutes and the violin with the melody. It jumps around a bit and is pleasing to listen to, meaning it is disjunct and consonant.
Here I listened to the music and picked one of the parts I heard and tried to find a beat but am not able to. None of the parts are lining up together at any point either.