Beginning and ending a piece of music

Just a quick review of what we covered in class yesterday:

Questions: How do you begin a piece? How do you end it?

We went through different musical examples and heard the beginnings and the ends of the pieces and discussed about what we heard (this was after jotting down notes individually while listening).

Here are the pieces we listened to:

Richard Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra (Theme from 2001: a Space Odyssey)

Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings

Pyotr Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker (Russian Dance)

Percy Granger: Country Gardens (we heard a piano version in class, but this one's for full orchestra)

If you weren't able to come to class, can you please write in your blog your own observations? How do these pieces begin and how do they end?

Aside from that, we are in the process of writing our final compositions. Please bring a draft to class next week!

See you then!