The Seal Lullaby
The song has a lot of different instruments playing, and most of those instruments are softer instruments are the softer instrument that play low to give it the feeling of the lullaby. I think that the style of the piece is a lullaby. In this piece there is a lot of dynamic contrast. There is a lot of crescendos and diminuendos that give this song a lot of feeling. I think that this piece is more musically challenging than technically challenging. The reason for this is because while playing a lullaby you need the dynamics and slurs to be never noticeable. While playing this piece you also need to have lots of air to be able to crescendo and diminuendo while holding a long note. You can hear repetition and patterns during the music. The melody, counter-melody and bass line stay the same though out the piece. The thing that keeps it interesting is the switch of instruments playing the melody, and counter-melody. The melody, counter-melody. and bass line change between instruments a lot, so there is no instrument that keeps a certain part for most of the song At first you hear the clarinet play the melody with the flute and piano with the counter melody. After a while the melody is given to the piano, and the flutes with the clarinet counter melody. The only this that stays the same for the most part is the bass line which is some clarinets, oboes, and tuba. I think that this piece is somewhat sad. The tempo of this song makes it sound sad. In particular I like the dynamics, because they added feeling and story to this piece. If the song didn't have good dynamics then it wouldn't sound like a lullaby, and it would sound very boring with no feeling in it. Overall this piece was very slow and calming which was very nice. it had a good lullaby feel to it. It sounds like a good speed for a lullaby.
