Moran Woodwind Symphony Analysis

The Moran Woodwind Quintet was on Tuesday, November 17. The performers included John Bailey, William McMullen, Diane Barger, Jeffrey McCray, and Alan Mattingly. Bailey played the flute, McMullen played the oboe, Barger was on the clarinet, McCray played the bassoon, and Mattingly played the horn. The first piece was called Quintet in g minor, Op. 56, No. 2. It was by Franz Danzi. The first movement was an Allegretto. It was in a major mode and in triple meter. It started with polyphonic texture. The flute and oboe were playing a portion of the melody and the clarinet was playing another melody, both over the bassoon and horn. There were portions of the movement in which the flute would play a melody above the rest of the instruments in homophonic texture. This gave the piece a light, fluttering sound. The second movement was an Andante. It started with the horn and flute playing with monophonic texture. This created a calm sound that brought on a feeling warmth indoors on a cold winter night. It was in a minor mode and in triple meter. The middle of the movement included a great deal of dissonance and had an atonal rhythm that felt a bit unsettling. The end of the movement had the same calm melody as the beginning. It
It was in a minor mode and had a disjunct melody in the beginning. It started with an eerie sound as each instrument would start playing a melody and then pause until another instrument started again. Eventually, the oboe started building up a more complex flowing melody that all of the instruments joined. It felt like a wait for some sort of mysterious person or object to arrive. The horn came in with a melody over the bassoon, which created a deep sound that made for a hazy, mystical scene. The clarinet soon joined in with a clear, pure sound that brought on a calm feeling. The piece ended with all of the instruments joining together to create a