Assignment 5 - Analysing Mendelssohn's The Hebrieies: Overture - McLaughlin Niamh Mary
Western Art Music and Nature: Analysing a Musical Work MUSI3041: Music and the Environment Class Assignment 5 November 2022 3035995993 Mendelssohn’s Opus 26, The Hebrides: Overture or Overture to the Isles of Fingal is inspired by a visit to the Scottish Hebridean Isles in 1829 (Carpenter, 2021). The work is not intended to tell a ‘story’ of his experience in Scotland but instead to paint an overall picture in the listener’s mind which reflects the image Mendelssohn himself witnessed (Nepilova, 2022). The piece opens gently with a simple repeated phrase which is understood to be the melodic idea which Mendelssohn wrote whilst in Fingal’s Cave ( Nepilova, 2022 ). It starts with only the viola, cello and bassoon playing accompanied by a pedal in the violin part. The music gradually grows as the phrase is repeated with more and more instruments being added and the harmonic balance changing and rising to a first climax at 0:17 (LSO, 2017). Studyin...
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