a John Adams's Short Ride in a Fast Machine is an adventurous and exciting work of program music for orchestra, quite different than Aaron Copland's...

a John Adams's Short Ride in a Fast Machine is an adventurous and exciting work of program music for orchestra, quite different than Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring. After repeated listening, what do you think Adams is trying to express about his "Ride"? How does the mood or energy of the music change as it progresses? Explain your answer using appropriate references to the musical element vocabulary (dynamics, tempo, rhythm, melody, texture, form, harmony, etc.). How do you think Adams's "Ride" compares with Richard Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries," which was written 100 years earlier

Short Ride in a fast machineThis piece radiates joy, the sound is bright and spacious and each instrument, in each section issharply rendered. It brilliantly combines the excitement and fear that...