While listening to Yeol Eum Son play Mozart's Piano Concerto, I had quite a bit of
thoughts, ideas, and questions come into mind. One major thought in my head was how
something that is so complex and thorough be created only by one person. Let’s break
down this beautiful masterpiece. When talking about the sound and what’s making it, it’s
quite obvious that there is more than one instrument playing throughout the songs. For
example, in the beginning of the song, you see multiple instruments playing. But,
throughout the song you hear the violin, bassoon, trumpet, piano, clarinet, French horn,
flute, and I believe the cello. Lastly, I get the impression that the mood for this sound is
overall happy, it was very pleasant, light, and overall joyous. Next, let’s talk about what
the melody was like. First off, a melody in a song is important to have because that is
the part of the song that people remember most. When you get a catchy song stuck in
your head, its most likely because of the catchy melody that you’re remembering. When
it comes to this song, I love the melody it brings because it is quite catchy. The melody
is in a major and is a conjunct meaning the melody moves by half or whole steps. My
favorite part of the song and the melody is at 1:58 when the other instruments start
playing along with the piano. Rhythm is probably the most important element within a
song. That is because anyone can mix together sounds and call it good, but if there is
no rhythm to the sounds, there’s really no music at all, again going along with catchy.
The rhythm in this piece is regular and not irregular and it’s also duple. I really like the
rhythm that picks up at 2:17 for a couple of seconds,it makes me tap my feet along with
it. I believe harmony has the ability to make a human connection. While going through
the readings and homework this week I found that harmony makes it easier for listeners
to connect and I definitely felt like I connected to this song. At about 2:25 was where
that connection was fer me. I loved the piano piece and how she began to go softer and
then rise back up. The texture within the song was monophonic sometimes but primary
was polyphonic. As far as if it would alternate between various textures, I’d have to say
that it would sometimes because it would be just the piano playing but majority of the
time all the instruments would play. An example of just the piano playing would be in the
song at 1:40, all I could hear was the piano at this moment and then the other
instruments joined in. As far as the tempo for this song, the tempo was fast, sometimes
like I said they would slow it down for a few seconds then the tempo would be fast
again. A great example for the tempo would be at 3:00, if you listen closely you can
hear quite distinctly the tempo in the background and if you pay attention, this same
tempo is played throughout the whole song. There are no contrasting tempos and the
composer does not use the rubato. The dynamics in this piece I believe were both soft
and loud it would change a lot between the two. I also think it dramatically changed
between dynamics at certain points. At other points, I think it had a more gradual
change between the dynamics. Same with how the