In this discussion step you are going to find out for yourselves whether or not your experience of music alters according to if and how you move.
As you have learnt in the previous video, Mozart described in a letter to his father the reactions in the audience to his [Symphony no. 31](https://youtu.be/B366A-28cj4).
> “Just in the middle of the first Allegro there was a passage which I felt sure must please. The audience were quite carried away – and there was a tremendous burst of applause. But as I knew, when I wrote it, what effect it would surely produce, I had introduced the passage again at the close – when there were shouts of ‘da capo’.” <sup>1</sup>
The passage (“just in the middle of the first Allegro”) you can hear in this YouTube-clip at 3:45 to 3:55:
[Symphony no.31 from 3:45](https://youtu.be/B366A-28cj4?t=3m44s)
Now we would like you to do three tasks and share your findings in the discussion below. In every task we ask you to listen to an excerpt from Symphony no. 31 twice. The first time you are listening to the excerpt we ask you to sit quite still and just listen. The second time we ask you to move in a manner described in each task.
Please note, when listening to the excerpts the sound should ideally be quite loud, but not so loud that you damage your ears.
**Task 1: The Conductor**
Play the excerpt from 3:26, or ideally from the beginning, at least until 4:00.
[Symphony no. 31 from 3:26](https://youtu.be/B366A-28cj4?t=3m25s)
* Try first to sit completely still while experiencing the music.
* Then play it again and act as if you are conducting the orchestra.
Describe and share the two experiences in the comments below.
**Task 2: The Da-Capo!**
At the end of this movement Mozart has, as he writes in his letter, introduced the passage again. Listen to the same YouTube-clip from around 7:21 until the end of the movement.
[Symphony no. 31 from 7:21](https://youtu.be/B366A-28cj4?t=7m20s)
* Try first to do as the audience does here; sit quiet and wait for the second movement.
* Then play it again and rise up when the first violinist stands up and shout da-capo while applauding when the movement has finished.
Describe and share the two experiences in the comments below.
**Task 3: The Hush & Clap**
In the same letter Mozart also wrote:
> “The Andante also found favour, but particularly the last Allegro, because, having observed that all last as well as first Allegros begin here with all the instruments playing together and generally unisono, I began mine with two violins only, piano for the first eight bars – followed instantly by a forte; the audience, as I expected, said ‘hush’ at the soft beginning, and when they heard the forte, began at once to clap their hands.”<sup>loc.cit</sup>
Listen to Symphony no. 31 from 14:00 until 14:25.
[Symphony no. 31 from 14:00](https://youtu.be/B366A-28cj4?t=13m59s)
* First, play this part sitting completely still
* Then try to act as the audience Mozart describes. Hushing (at 14:12, and clapping at 14:20).
Describe and share the two experiences in the comments below.
References:
<sup>1</sup> Anderson, Emily, 1966, The Letters of Mozart and his Family. Chronologically arranged, translated and edited with an Introduction, Notes and Indexes. (311 Mozart to his Father) P. 558.