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The writer uses composer’s last names and does not expand on them at all as they are expecting their audience to already be well acquainted with these names. It also talks about concert places without expanding on them, which is also expecting the reader to know of these places and be able to see the differences without the need for information.
The article uses long words that are typical of adults to use. They can be complex like ‘transitional’, ‘harbingers’. ‘manifestation’ and ‘evolutionary’, which are words that are not typical of teenaged magazines. This shows the high level of education and the older age of the reader.
This block of text is informative text rather than a personal article as there is no reference to the writer or to their experiences it is just talking about what happened to get this group to be the main story of the magazine.
The text is referential as at the start it refers to a concert held for subscribers meaning that it is more addressing the people that know about this particular event. Also it refers to other concerts that have been held again talking to people that know about the concerts as well as informing those that don’t know.
The article also includes words that are in a different language like ‘sans’ which are used to describe the state of the group which shows that the reader is either proficient in language, cultured to know the specific word used or have the intellectual level to use the word in conversation and understand it when reading a text.
The article makes several references to subscribers and patrons showing that the type of people to buy this magazine are the type of people who have and know about the subscription to these events and things. This means that the type of people to have these subscriptions are people that earn enough money to buy the magazine as well as have money set aside that can pay for the subscription so they most likely to be in the upper working class as they have enough money to live comfortably as well as attend these concerts and have these subscriptions.
The audience for this magazine is people that are adult and have a high level of education. Words such as ‘adversity’ show this as the magazine expects the reader to be able to read this word in the flow of the text rather than stopping to think of the meaning.
The tone of the text is formal. It uses no controversial words which is typical of this style as adults do not tend to read the types of magazines that do which this style of music.
The text is about a conductor who has died. It has an element of expecting the reader to know who he is but does give some information in the form of praise/ respect for him to give the reader an insight into who he is.
The article does not use first tense. There is no use of I in it, the text is in 3rd tense
The language used in this article has specific terms that would be known only to those who buy the magazine often or are involved with this genre of music. Words such as ‘maestro’ and ‘virtuosity’ show this as well as showing the age of the audience. This shows the age, as the words themselves require an amount of experience to be able to read them smoothly through a text. Also the words show that the education level of the average reader is high enough to be able to understand the meaning whilst reading a block of text and not having the definition given to them.
The tone of the language in this article is formal. There is no use of any controversial language and the use of music terms show that the article is well articulated and educated. The tone also shows that the magazine would not be for typical teenagers or tweens as they are looking for more a more informal tone along with controversial and/or colloquial language.
The article doesn’t go on a ramble about the person the article is about. It sticks to the point, providing information and personal opinion of the person in question and so doesn’t reveal anything more than what is needed. This means that the language does not have any juicy gossip which the audience of this magazine would appreciate as they are here to learn more about the music, how the person is good at what they play and what sort of brand of instruments the person uses/ likes so that they can use it to inform them of the type of instrument they should be buying for themselves or maybe their child.
The article refers to a place, which it thinks its audience will know about. It does give some explanation to the place however only the parts that are relevant to the article, the rest isn’t mentioned as they o presume the audience will know the rest of it and so the explanation is more of a way to get the audience to focus on a particular part of the place straight away rather than them having to take the time to figure out what part they are talking about.
The article starts with a drop cap. This means that the reader can find the start of the text without being confused by the other columns of text. For this audience they are fine with this amount text so there are several columns of text which is why the drop cap is needed.
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