FIRST - Watch this video on DropBox.

Be sure to have the Music Listening Guide

(from the Syllabus folder) and your textbook in front of you while you listen/watch
the music. Instructions on How To Access my DropBox are in the Syllabus and the
first document in this folder.

THEN - Answer the following 3 questions, AND respond to at least 3 other students -
do this on your College Course Management system (Blackboard, Etudes, Canvas,
etc.). Do NOT answer questions in DropBox - they will go unchecked/ungraded on
DropBox. {Note that this information is also on DropBox in the folder with the
video clip for this week.}

Rossini, William Tell Overture, excerpt

Length of Video clip = 3:31. Chapter 1, Musical Voyages.

QUESTIONS TO ANSWER

1. Starting at 0:15, what family of instruments entered and are featured?

There are entered string instrument, woodwind instrument, and percussion
instrument, such as violin, viola, double bass cello, clarinet, and triangle. The string
instrument are featured voice in sharp, the woodwind instrument are featured for
making a heavy atmosphere, and the percussion instrument are particularly evident.
2. What happens to the dynamics (volume levels) from 1:30 to 1:35?
In 1:30 to 1:35 from the video, the dynamics plays from soft to strong. It is formed in
a low volume to make the audience at first, and then make the listener to get a
shock, just feels like get a surprise.
3. What type(s) of ‘development’ do you think this piece exhibits?
The variation in this piece exhibits, there is a lot of development in it, just like the
volume start from the bottom to the top, and then go back to the bottom. Also, the
instrument almost like added one by one for making the sound to become more
powerful in it. It repeats several times.
Live Music Forum 1 Rossini, Wm. Tell Overture, excerpt

1. Starting at 0:15, what family of instruments entered and are featured?

2. What happens to the dynamics (volume levels) from 1:30 to 1:35?

3. What type(s) of ‘development’ do you think this piece exhibits?

ANSWERS

1 Strings

2 Crescendo – gets much louder

3 Variation and Sequence, some Repetition