Music Essays

This set of plainchant— a musical style during the medieval period that requires chanting-- does not simply contain several of the most righteous and earliest music ever produced, it also became the greatest influence for a great deal of Western music up until the 16th century (Grout & Palisca 2001, 31).

The author outlines the challenges that Boston faced. The era of John Hynes in 1949, paved a strong foundation to the Boston's "Concrete Chapter". He utilized the divisions between the Irish Catholics and the Protestants in the town and promised to create a unified and bright future through new reforms.

Famous French composer’s Symphonie Fantastique was performed in Jones Hall on Friday, October 26, 2012, at 7:30 pm. The stage was set for a beautiful rendition of one of the compositions in Symphonie Fantastique: March to the scaffold. The concert’s timing was appropriate for the type of composition chosen.

Starting from the Russian Association of Proletarian Musicians (RAPM) which dominated the Russian musical scene in the late 1920s till the early 1930s, to the Shostakovich era, the Russian musical scene has been either in support or opposition to the government. The RAPM for example had a manifesto that was meant to reflect the psychology and the desires of the proletariats (Edmunds 2000, p.78). The RAPM until its disbandment also specialized in composing music that was conservative in nature and at times wrote instrumental music and performed mass songs.

The East Coast Swing was the overall phrase used to describe the various versions of swing that were defined by their fast pace and their connection to big band music. The next evolution of dance that occurred was the ‘jitterbug’.

Most of the baroque composers came from Italy. They included Vivaldi, Monteverdi and Corelli. In the mid of the eighteenth century, the focus moved to composers from German namely Handel and Bach. Italy took the prominent part in the formation of genres like cantata, opera just to name a few.

I had never attended any of his concerts before and therefore, the concert was significant to me. The concert not only presented me with the opportunity of witnessing a live performance by a top musician in the country but, it also gave me a chance of viewing a real life application of some music theories we have covered in the music course.

While a song may contain the same structural elements as another song, oftentimes there are greatly divergent expressive patterns. One considers the nature of the cover song as a prominent example of this situation. In these instances, one musical group writes and records a song. This song is then re-recorded by another musical group.

Then one day an engineer comes to the village to build a dam. The engineer Rajeev has been having a very strange problem since his childhood and that is his inferiority complex regarding his looks. He thinks that he is very ugly and no one will like him. Then one day he hears Roopa singing religious songs in the temple and meets her.

Over many generations accessibility to large amount of music have increased vastly. This has been facilitated by means like radios, tapes, and CDs. Music has formed the integral parts of the broadcasting systems like the televisions and the cinema films. In fact, as you walk along the streets, your ears will be exposed to uninvited musical sounds.   

He made Reggae which was earlier an unknown form of music but now it has become quite famous in the world. Reggae started during the early 1970’s, and it is an important type of rock music from Jamaica. It is a combination of Mento, Ska and Rock Steady.

Stravinsky was a very important to Russian culture and he grew up in a musical family. The family often went to the opera because Stravinsky’s father was a major opera singer with the St Petersburg Opera. His mother was proficient with piano.

DeVeaux’s (1989) analysis of the emergence of jazz music follows a rigorous timeline which essentially depicts the landmarks and milestones that have been achieved by the frontrunners of jazz music. In addition to this observation, “The Emergence of the Jazz Concert” also edifies the readers regarding the significance of each of these remarkable events in the history of jazz and what these occurrences signify and embody.

The author states that the electric guitar is perhaps the most important popular “landmark” in the advent of modern technology into the music industry, using a pickup system of electric sounds, the guitar senses vibrations from the strings and transmits them as electric signal the final product is a wave equal to that of the string.

An example of the genre and the limitations that are noted by musicians can be seen with examples such as country music. When looking at the arrangements of different musicians, the same approaches to the music can be heard, which consist of bass, guitar, piano, a drum set and possibly a violin

Music can be listened on three planes; one of them is the sensual plane. To the sensuous listener the appeal of music is self-evident. The sound element is powerful and mysterious. Most people listen to music at this level where they can forget themselves. This can be most relaxing for students as it helps them to unwind and release tensions.

The band was well organized, giving out and offering t real German music, of quality! It was homophone in all terms; all members seemed to participate in equal terms thus make a perfect symphony, and coordination. When the singer sang on his own, it seemed that all the rest of members were singing also, while they were just playing.

Concerning India’s partition, members from the different partitions started to interact and mix their varied form of Bhangra. This mixture resulted in a hybrid form of Bhangra that in cooperated many different styles. Some people also referred Bhangra as a folk dance.

Charles Mingus lived between 1922 and 1979. He is a renowned revolutionary bass player, although I regard him as the best raucous, as well as an inventive composer of his century. His music entailed some revolutionary energy and indeed, it soundtracked several revolutions between the early 1950s and the late 1960s.

Bop artists such as Charlie Parker, who was popular in the 1940s, perceived heroin to be a type of creative element that helped him to write music after experiencing alternate realities. Many jazz musicians at that time began to recognize the sensory-heightening abilities of drugs like marijuana and even started to use them during live performances. Rock and roll music in the fifties was quite mild. Oddly enough, it is the older generation of Americans at that time who gave it its rebellious timbre by labeling it as a subversive type of music.

From the mid-1920s to early 1940s, Hollywood was saturated by musical films. This was partly because it was the ‘in-thing’ back then and also due to the success of the first motion pictures that incorporated music in their acts. While others ran short of expectations, others were instant hits, raking millions of dollars for the cast.

This was roughly the common size for the Baroque concerto format. Haydn’s piece, on the other hand was written to be performed by a much larger symphony orchestra comprising around 40 musicians. It is perhaps due to the limited resources at Bach’s disposal that constant invention in music was a matter of necessity than of will.

This music festival, unlike the others, arranges competitions for young singers and performers from all around the world to show their talents. Performers usually include dancers and singers from all around the world. They are invited to take part in 20 or more high-value competitions in concerts that take place every evening.

This study will address the positive factors which enabled the growth of Apple iTunes Store to a major music distribution channel by selling over 6 billion songs till beginning of January 2009. Though emergence of Apple iTunes provided global music industry a thrust but the major concern lays on the fact that is globally 95% of the music track downloads are acts of online piracy which is making the legal distributors lose huge amount of revenue. The aim of the research is to analyze the impact of piracy on the legal music distribution channels and recommending steps for the crisis resolution.

The price of gas has not been stable for several years at the global, regional, national as well as local levels. Many features have caused gas prices to escalate and this has caused many impacts to businesses as well as individuals. This paper will analyze various aspects of gas prices including their relation to the price of oil and the determination of gas prices.

Tchaikovsky’s life passed in writing a great amount and variety of music ranging from operas and ballets to orchestral and chamber music. (Newmarch, 88) On the other hand, Tchaikovsky was unacquainted with the limitations that the violin had, and aspired to drive the limitations to a totally new point.

These sound traits reckon on the amusement of a few explicit concerts that grant the listener the genuine gratification. A person enjoys because of the those numeral fundamentals which appear collectively to produce that happiness, the work of art, the instruments, the orchestra and the antechamber should be in outstanding arrangement to create an unforgettable eavesdropping experience.

Illegal downloading of music online has devastating effects on the industry and should be prohibited. About 95% of the music downloads are illegal. The people most involved in illegal downloading of music are young people. This and file sharing costs the music stores, music executives and the musicians a great deal of money as it involves theft.

With reference to the topic of the Beyonce song, ‘Run the World’, and the women empowerment that has dominated the song from the start of the song to the end, it is notably that she had addresses several issues to do with the women empowerment regarding the cultural, political, and economic fronts.

Bob Marley is an icon of the reggae music and has inspired many reggae artists. He is one of the classical reggae musicians whose songs are still popular over 30 years since his death. His appeal to the international audience has been as a result of the fact that in most of his songs, Marley talk about freedom and emancipation from bondage.

The companies represent a diversified trading strategy with stocks in the consumer retail sector focusing on small business and home enterprise growth in a recovering economy, Chinese biotechnology for rapid growth potential, the NASDAQ giant and tech-sector leader Apple with the dynamic iPhone, iPad, and iOS lines internationally. 

The world has experienced great musicians who sing different genres of music with informative lessons in them and this is one of the perfect contributions of this American female Artist called Dolly Parton. One of her greatest single releases that sent a chilling message across the world during her active music lifetime is her song titled “Coat of many colors”.

This paper will discuss how the twelve-note composition ended with the formation of emancipation of the dissonance. The basic purpose of this technique was to ensure that the 12 tones of music or chromatic scale are being used simultaneously one after another, so that it will remove the doubt that only one or a few tone(s) is being used throughout.

The author says that good music is one thing that we can look upon when we want someone to appreciate us. Different people like different kinds of music depending on the listener. If the music does not have any effect on a person in any way, then it is not good music. The greatest aspect of music is that all people enjoy music in some form.

Most composers of religious music are influenced by their faith and veneration of God. Christians and non-Christians like the Hindus, Sikhs, Jews, Islams, Shinto, Buddhists, and many other religions composed their religious music for worship, prayer, and meditation. The lyrics, tone, and singing reflect holiness and deep respect.

A Biographical Sketch of Arnold Schoenberg. Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) Arnold Schoenberg is one of the key figures in the history of music that made significant contribution towards the development of the genre in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

People within the Korean context exhibit pride in all aspects of the existence, starting from their traditions, to numerous musical bodies that have been in existence for many precedent centuries. These have been preserved throughout the period in manuscripts and printed books that act as reference points to the traditions and musical styles.

His music was noted mainly for the sensory component it incorporated and its lack of formation around one pitch or key. A gamelan, from Indonesia, is a musical ensemble that features metallophones, drums, xylophones, bamboo flutes, strings, and the occasional vocalist.

As such, this essay will focus on all of these aspects as they related to the August 12th Train concert at Highland Park Chicago, IL. The venue was perhaps the perfect venue for a live concert. Oftentimes, when a performer comes to town it is necessary for a large crew to assemble a massive stage that will allow the audience to adequately see the performer as they perform; however, this is not the case with the pavilion at Highland Park.

The power of music is evident the response of the audience through tapping, clapping and singing along with the music. The application of music and sound in movies facilitates the use of the various approaches in dealing with the emotions and response of the audience.

Recently I attended a live performance at the University Center for the Arts. Specifically, the CSU Percussion Ensemble performed. Eric Hollenbeck was the director of the program. The program, which occurred non November 11th, featured: Christopher Rouse’s Ku-Ka-Ilimoku (1981), Rudiger Pawassar’s Sculpture in Wood (2003), David Skidmore’s Ritual Music (2005), Edgar Varese’s Ionisation (1931), and Christopher Deane’s Parallel Isometry (2011).

In ethnomusicology, acculturation can be considered as a form of transculturation of music. Transculturation is a broad reference to the way in which more than two cultures come into contact, as far as musical influences are concerned, setting in motion processes that alter the music of the affected culture in one way or the other.

At times people listen to a song and immediately know that they are going to love it. The piece vibrates through the body and warms the heart. The song chosen to be presented in class has thought-provoking lyrics, incredible similes, as well as a rhythm, which makes people knock on their feet. I believe the piece “Cats in the Cradle” is ideal. 

Music therapy consists of listening, singing, or playing musical instruments since music and singing can stimulate specialization of brain hemispheres. Clinical observations show that singing depends on the right hemisphere structures thus singing can be exploited in order to facilitate speech reconstruction for individuals re-learning language. 

Generally speaking, The Four Tops refer to a group of four singers who used to be popular with soul music and lived for a long time. The Four Tops consisted of Levis Stubb who was the lead singer, Abdul Fakir ‘Duke’ who was the first tenor, Lawrence Paytone who was the second tenor and Obie Benson as the baritone.

Schubert turned out to be an utterly versatile and prolific composer who contrived many memorable compositions in his short life span of 32 years. Though during his lifespan, Franz Schubert accrued little public acclaim and appreciation, yet, the interest in his compositions immensely increased in the decades that followed his death in 1828 (McKay, 1997).

It is the duty of the manager to guide the artist on almost every phase of the career. The manager helps in securing a recording contract for the artist, assists in the selection of songs, develops schemes for a stable and selects the record company and other music professionals, and supervises the singer’s associations with each one.

The reason for the popularity of the guitar was its association with rock and roll as has been already mentioned before. Guitar, although there for a thousand years, enjoyed renewed success after the invention of electric or bass guitar. During the great depression, music was virtually not affected by it.

Movie Review: American Beauty. In his work, How Movies Helped Save My Soul, Higgins challenged us to examine a movie or film for underlying issues that are eating at our subconscious, and sometimes even conscious, psyche. We tend to observe the world around us from a distance, keeping as far away from unpleasant circumstances as can comfortably be.

There is also an association with the philosophies and beliefs which the artist holds as well as how this relates to cultural and social beliefs. When looking at the music of John Waller, it is noted that there is a direct association between personal philosophies and the surrounding culture with the music that he plays.