Instruction Before completing this, please ensure you have read and understood a

Instruction
Before completing this, please ensure you have read and understood all the information on the “Music Identification” page.
Listen to the attached musical excerpt 🎹
Post your answer addressing on following three questions:What is the Genre of this piece? (Opera, Symphony, Sonata, Art Songs, etc.)
What is the Tempo of this piece? (Slow, Moderate, or Fast)
What Instrumentations are used in this piece? (Violin, Viola, Cello, Bass, Horn, Trumpet, etc. )
Learning OutcomeDefine important musical terms and use those terms accurately in your own words.
Identify the musical characteristics represented by those terms in a piece of music.
ADDITIONAL LECTURE OF THIS ASSIGNMENT
When identifying a piece of music, there are many things you could listen for in order to distinguish one piece from another. That can sometimes be the trouble that music appreciation students have: there is so much going on in the music that they don’t know what they should be listening to.
We have to break the music down in our ears – take it apart and listen to some of the individual musical elements that make up the piece. I suggest starting by listening for musical elements that are relatively easy to hear.
Instrumentation is one such element. Tempo is another!
1. Instrumentation
Instrumentation refers to the instruments or voices that are performing the piece.
It also refers to how the composer uses those instruments (do all the instruments play all the time, or do different instruments play at different times).
Listening to the types of instruments and how they play will help you recognize the pieces of music we study 🎹
2. Tempo
Tempo refers to the speed of the basic pulse or beat of the music!
Imagine a conductor keeping time with his or her baton. Each movement of the baton represents one beat (the more rapidly the baton moves, the faster the tempo or the more slowly the baton moves, the slower the tempo is).
I’m sure you’ve listened to a favorite song and tapped your foot along with the beat. A driving rock song will have a faster tempo. You would find yourself tapping your foot rapidly to the beat. A laid-back ballad would have a slower tempo. You’d tap your foot more slowly as you kept time with the slower beat of the song.
You can do the same thing with Western Classical Music. You can use tempo to identify different pieces of music. By remembering which pieces have a slower or faster tempo than others, you will be able to tell those pieces apart.
3. Two Examples 🎹
Second Movement from Symphony No. 94 in G Major by Franz Josef Haydn
First Movement from Concerto No. 4 in F minor (“Winter” from The Four Seasons) by Antonio Vivaldi
4. Summary
What Instruments Am I Hearing?Let’s talk about the instruments you heard. In some respects, these pieces are fairly similar. Both feature orchestras, and both emphasize the string section of those orchestras.So you mainly hear violins, violas, cellos, and basses in both pieces.
However, in the piece by Vivaldi, you hear a solo violin (there are lengthy passages played by a single violin).By contrast, in the piece by Haydn, all the instruments play together. No standout moments for a single player.
This is one thing you can listen for to tell the two pieces apart!
There is also a single loud chord played near the end of our Haydn excerpt, and at that moment, we hear the timpani (drums).There are no drums in the Vivaldi concerto; that would also be something to listen to tell the two apart.
Drums = the Haydn symphony; solo violin = the Vivaldi concerto. What tempo Am I Hearing?Another characteristic to listen for that will enable you to tell the two pieces apart is tempo. Tempo refers to how fast or slow a piece is going.
As we go through the course, you’ll learn a few Italian words that musicians use to specify certain tempos.
Listen for whether the piece is fast or slow: if it’s fast, it’s Vivaldi’s “Winter.” If it’s slow, it’s Haydn’s Symphony No. 94!
For now, don’t worry too much about what a symphony is vs. a concerto 🤩