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Small Ensembles:

Fleetwood Mac is made up of five members and they all play a part in their songs. All of them in the majority of their songs sing and/or play a instrument together. They have had a number of credits from the 2020 Hits Album to the 2008, 101 Power Ballads album. Mick Fleetwood came up with the name of the band with his friend John McVie they both chose to be the percussion which led to them needing to find more members for the melody and bass. Peter Green and Jeremy Spencer decided to tag along with the band as guitarists. Sadly both guitarists slowly crawled there way through mental illness a fifth member joined. Pianist named Lindsey Buckingham who could sing as well as play the piano.

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Their choice of style is Blue's Rock in the 60's style. 

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Fleetwood Mac Band

Rock Bands

Smoke on the water

Mamma Mia

“Smoke on the Water” - Deep Purple     

 

  1. List the instruments used in this piece and their order of entry: Bass Guitar, Drum Kit, Vocals, Organ

  2. Using words from the expressive techniques and tone colour concepts, describe the sound of the main vocals used in this piece. He uses a mixture between minor and major with the depth of each note he sings. 
     

  3. Describe the role of the organ in this song. List the features of the music that create unity in the performance. The organ is a choral accompanient throughout the piece along with the vocals.

 

“Mama Mia” - ABBA     

  1. List the instruments that you hear in the introduction of this piece: Xylophone, Electric guitar, electric guitar, vocals, piano. 
     

  2. How many vocalists can you hear? Describe the tone colour and pitch level of the voices. 3 vocalists are heard which 2 of them are backing vocals. 
     

  3. What accompanying instruments are used in this piece? Piano, used for the chordal accompanient towards the vocals.
     

  4. Which of the following features of the concept of Pitch are used in this song? (Highlight your answers).

    1. Harmony between voices: Yes

    2. Use of repeated melodic patterns: Yes

    3. Continual shifts from high to low pitch in melody: No

    4. Use of low pitched male voices: No

    5. String bass: Yes?

    6. Melodic ostinatos: Dunno. 

Jazz Ensemble

Smooth jazz

Smooth Jazz first started off as any normal jazz group which gradually over time, started adding pop-styled music every now and then. Smooth Jazz grew in the 1980's when bands like 'Spyro's gagas' who then produced hit singles which slid its way into multiple track records.

 

Candy Dolfer is one of these people who decided to try out this new trend in the 80's who eventually managed to get into 'The Ultimate Jazz Track' of the year reward back in the 1990's. Their style is often the same as any other artist except that they stop playing instruments half way through and they'd just sing like in an accapella.

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Chamber Ensembles

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The Nutcracker Suite Op.71        

 

  1. What/how many instruments make up this ensemble? About 3 violins, a cello, the big 5 looking violins. 
     

  2. Describe the sound production of the featured ensembles: They use different instruments for the major and minor version of the melody. Also they use multiple instruments during the bridges doing the same tune to bring in the next area. 

 

  1. Outline the main roles of each instrument/part: Violin plays the melody and badd with the plucking for the percussion beat.

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     2. Identify 2 compositional techniques that are used by the arranger and explain how it creates interest in the work. 

The arranger might of used a call and response as one instrument plays by itself in which then the rest play the same thing but repeated after the first instrument's solo is finished. 




 

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​With or without you

  1. Explain how the performers explore the range of the cello throughout the work: They use only cellos to play the melody the vocal's replacement lines so that their cover is instrumentally correct among their other songs which also use the same technique. One of the cellos play the bass line of the song which then is backed by the lead cello which is playing the melody version of the lyrics. 

     

  2. Listening to the bass line: 

    1. Describe the use of a bass line throughout the work does it stay the same, does it change? The bass line changes so that when they play together they can both play in harmony.

 

    1. How is it used to create dynamic changes? It used to create it by using lower notes to make it quieter and more smooth.

 

    1. What is the effect of it on the pulse? The pulse is played on a chordal measure so when the cello is playing the bass it can be made a beat on the 4th or second beat of the bar. 

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My Choice of Genre

My choice of genre is techno because they use only a couple of instruments which have been tuned into technological sounds which again can be edited to make different sounds. These sounds can then make their piece extra unique and very easy to learn. I don't have any favorite bands or songs but I will add a piece which I quite like. The songs listed use electronic instruments which are then transformed using either echoes or completely changed the way the instrument           should sound like. 

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