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    Engaged Listening Sample

    Title: “The Galop of the Comedians”

    Composer: Dmitry Kabalevsky

    Artist (if known): unknown

    Musical Elements
    Rhythm & Tempo: rhythm: even, uneven, long,
    short, rests, duple, triple,
    Short, repeated rhythms in a driving pattern at a fast, quadruple, pulsing, driving,
    frantic tempo repeated, syncopation
    tempo: slow, fast, frantic,
    peaceful, moderate, accel., a
    tempo, ritard
    Melody: pitch- treble, bass, high, low,
    middle, mixed range,
    Melody begins with a descending pattern; combination of ascending, descending,
    conjunct and disjunct motion
    melody-conjunct, disjunct,
    Fairly high pitches steps & leaps, short or long
    Short melody repeated several times phrases, arch, wave, vivid
    motif, theme
    Harmony & Texture harmony-melody,
    accompaniment, rich, sparse,
    Homophonic harmony (clear melody with accompaniment), monophonic, polyphonic,
    some dissonance but mostly consonance homophonic, consonance,
    dissonance, block chords,
    Medium texture with several instruments broken chords, resolution

    texture-dense, thin, thick,


    medium, heavy, light, sparse.
    few/many instruments
    Tonality: tonality-major, minor, combo,
    changing, indistinct, bright,
    Music sounds bright and happy which means it’s probably happy, dark, somber, other
    based on a major scale

    Dynamics & Articulation: dynamics-loud, soft, mezzo,


    crescendo, decrescendo
    Main dynamic is loud with a big (very sudden) decrescendo
    at 0:43. Articulation: staccato, short, clipped articulation-staccato, clipped,
    legato, smooth

    large contrasts, little contrast


    Timbre: bright, brilliant, clear, deep,
    heavy, warm, reedy, thin,
    Bright timbre, maybe a little piercing breathy, piercing, harsh,
    mellow, dark, light, airy

    Form & Structure: theme, section, A, B, C…,


    phrase, verse, strophic, binary,
    Ternary form (since two separate themes can be ternary, antecedent,
    distinguished and the first theme is repeated at the end) consequent, restatement,
    introduction, bridge
    Actual structure is AABA; begins with a short introduction,
    also, several of the sections are connected by bridges
    Context: place and time, background
    info, purpose
    part of Comedians Suite
    written in 1940 for Children’s Theater in Moscow
    The comedians are an acting group that travels from town
    to town to attract a crowd (like the circus).

    Personal Response
    Physical: How did the
    music affect my
    This music is very fast and makes me feel like tapping my pen on my body?
    desk.

    How would I
    characterize the
    sound of the
    music to my
    ears?

    Emotional: How did the


    music make me
    The mood this music created for me was frantic. This music could feel?
    help me perform a task very quickly (like cleaning up my room –
    which I hate to do) since the music is so fast and makes me feel
    frantic. What mood does
    the music create?

    What activity
    would this music
    reinforce?

    Intellectual: What mental


    image did the
    This piece reminds me of a cartoon I saw once where the good guy music bring to
    was chased by the bad guy, and they ran all over the place. mind?

    Is there a specific
    memory I
    associate with
    this music?

    What else did I


    think about as I
    concentrated on
    the music?

    Overall Perception
    Two-word Description: Describe the music
    using only two
    concise descriptive
    fast, exciting words.

    Rating: Rate the music,


    and give a reason
    4 – I enjoyed this piece pretty well because it’s fast, short, and for your rating.
    exciting. I wouldn’t want to listen to it all the time, though, because
    the fast tempo might start to bug me. 5 – Greatly enjoyed
    4 – Somewhat
    enjoyed
    3 – Neither enjoyed
    nor disliked
    2 – Somewhat
    disliked
    1 – Greatly disliked

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