The piece of music we were supposed to listen to is “Youth without youth” by a Great Argentinean composer Osvaldo Golijov written for a beautiful and insightful movie with the same name (Dhaine and Soriano 109-121).
As far as the style of the music is concerned, I may suppose that this one resembles classical symphonic music with some inclusions of Latin American instrumentals. The music itself is the sheer expression of romantic. However, it is not about that frivolous and easy-going love. It implies tough and troubled matter of romantic relationships between a man and a woman. That is why the tune if abundant in sharp passages, representative of those controversies and hardships always dealt with in relationships.
As for the instruments, one can distinctly hear violins and some slight inclusions of harps. Also some sounds of a synthesizer can be heard (Everett).
As for the texture of the melody, I may contend that this is an utter example of polyphonic sounding. Two main musical features can be distracted, which sound as two separate tunes, intertwisting together to produce a whole-sounding musical line, one line composed of symphonic sounding and the second sounding as a harp.
Defining the meter of the music I would presume that this is 2/4. As far as the tempo is concerned, I would presume that this is Adagio, that means that it is about 66-67 beats per minute. Nevertheless, this tempo is not ultimate, because the music is very flexible in its sounding, so the tempo is changing drastically from time to time, as if conveying of this or that emotional estate of the author.
Works Cited
Dhaine, Elisabeth and Osvaldo Soriano. "Osvaldo Soriano". carav 68.1 (1997): 109-121. Web.
Everett, Yayoi Uno. Reconfiguring Myth And Narrative In Contemporary Opera. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2016. Print.
