--- title: Concerts, orchestras and live gigs — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Concerts, orchestras and live gigs», a lesson of the arts course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Live music is people playing right in front of you, from an orchestra in a grand hall to a busker in the street to a rock band at a muddy --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/) / Concerts, orchestras and live gigs # Concerts, orchestras and live gigs Lesson 11 of the arts course of Mova's primary school: 16 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/arts/11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs/0/) — Live music is people playing right in front of you, from an orchestra in a grand hall to a busker in the street to a rock band at a muddy festival, and every kind has its own habits. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs/1/) — Picture walking into a concert hall: everyone is screeching and tooting at once; that is not the music but tuning up, like footballers stretching before a match; the oboe plays a note called A, everyone matches it, and the noise stops when the conductor walks on. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs/2/) — Some habits are customs, not laws: many classical audiences wait to clap until the end of a long piece, rock crowds shout for an encore that was planned all along, and jazz players make up solos on the spot after years of practice. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs/3/) — Music is tied to memory and feeling, so a song can make an old lady cry and laugh at once; and loud gigs need earplugs, while tickets should come from the official seller, not a tout. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs/4/) — People talk about it in their own way: in Britain "grafting" is working hard, a "tout" (a "scalper" in America) resells tickets for big money, and "taking the mick" means taking advantage; in the North East "pet" means dear; Gen Z "goated" means the greatest of all time and "bussin'" means really good. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs/5/) — Before an orchestra plays, the players tune up: usually the oboe plays the note A and everyone matches it so their instruments agree. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs/6/) — Long classical pieces have several parts called movements, and many audiences wait until the end to clap; it is a custom, not a law, and in Mozart's time people often clapped between movements, and many musicians today are glad of the enthusiasm. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs/7/) — Pop and rock concerts are loud and crowded; big festivals run for several days with many stages, and many fans wear earplugs. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs/8/) — Musicians' earplugs make sound quieter but still clear, and many musicians wear them on stage. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs/10/) — The conductor keeps dozens of players together, deciding how fast, loud and gentle each part is, mostly in rehearsals, and shows it with the baton and face in the concert. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs/11/) — Some people buy concert tickets only to sell them on for much more; many countries limit this, fake tickets are a real problem, and official sellers are safest. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs/12/) — Opera is a play where the story is sung, with an orchestra; theatres often show translated words on a screen called surtitles, and many opera houses sell cheap tickets for young people. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs/13/) — To improvise means to make up music as you play, within the song's chords and rhythm; good improvisers have practised for years. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs/14/) — An encore is an extra song after the show seems finished, from the French for "again"; most big bands plan it in advance. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs/15/) — Songs from someone's youth can bring back strong memories, which is why music is used in care homes and with people with dementia. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs/16/) — Crying at music, from happiness or sadness, is normal. - ← previous: [Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar, kora, didgeridoo and more](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/) - next →: [Drawing: lines, shapes and drawing what you really see](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/12-drawing-lines-shapes-and-drawing-what-you-really-see/) - ↑ back to [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/)