Katelyn Sump
Listening Log 1, Due September 12, 2014

Song 1: “The Crave”

The introduction was played by a piano and the sound had some swing elements present. The entire song was played by the piano and was mostly upbeat with seemingly little variation. Although the song didn’t have much variation, there were definitely parts where more than one key was being play at a time and other parts where only one or two were being played at once. Around 1 minute into the song, the piano played an intricate, high pitched section that was interesting and sounded “happy” to me. Around 2:40 the sound softened, but picked up and began to crescendo around 3:00. The music began to fade out around 4:10 and had a somewhat abrupt ending. Overall, this was not my favorite piece that I have heard since the semester began. It’s not that I didn’t like it, but I just prefer something with more instrumental variety. I did appreciate the upbeat, lively tempo, though.

Song 2: “Sobbin’ Blues”

There were so many instruments playing at the beginning of the song that it was hard to pick out which were actually present. I think I heard the trumpet (maybe the cornet), drums, possibly the clarinet, and maybe even the trombone. At around 26 seconds the intro ended and all of the instruments except one began playing slower and softer, allowing what I thought to be the clarinet or saxophone to take over. Something similar to this also took place around 1:35. The drums were rather constant