I chose Beethoven’s 9th Symphony for cultivated and rap for vernacular in order to not only find the vast amount of differences in the two, but to compare and contrast these two. It is not uncommon to find people that enjoy both cultivated and vernacular music. This is because both can contrast more than we think. While the presentation and sound of a particular music style may be different, they can still hold a wide variety of similarities. While one may be vernacular and the other cultivated, they can align and differ in many different ways.
I decided on the Jay-Z concert to be the vernacular. Artist Jay-Z, formerly known as Shawn, was born on December of 1969. He comes from humble beginnings, in a low income family without a father. He…show more content… He was a huge spark in the transition between the Classical and Romantic era of music. In fact you could say that his music was worshipped by those in his time period. I decided on Beethoven’s 9th symphony to be my cultivated music choice. Beethoven actually names this symphony “Ode to Joy” on the release of the symphony. He completed it sometime in 1824 which will place it in Beethoven’s last period of music, which is widely accepted to be his most contemplating one. Many do not realize that this one in particular is actually a mixture of three of hIs own ideas, each of which were separate, that were eventually conjoined into one masterpiece. The emotion in this music is very intense, which is very common in many of Beethoven’s…show more content… The beginning of the symphony starts of in sonata form and is followed by a second sonata form. The third form is the minuet, as usual, and is followed by the fourth sanata. It is definitely in symphony form, go figure, which means it is a repeating ABA. The music is very ginger in the beginning, which is the piantissimo and changes abruptly to forte and allegro. It gets loud at around (1:18). The flutes begin to harmonize. At the two minute mark, we have the fortissimo and allegro. We then have a dynamic of piano. Then a dynamic of mezzoforte at the four minute mark. We have fortissimo at the 14 minute mark. We then start the second movement. It is very quiet, and the dynamic is piano at 17 minute mark. At the 22 minute mark we have a swift change in loud to soft. We have the swarm of violins start at the 31 minute mark, but they play very quiet. At the 45 minute mark it is mezzo piano. The music gets very loud at the 55 minute mark, and is fortissimo. We have some vocals at the 1 hour mark. The symphony finally comes to an