Reading Music: Print versus Screens I’m sure everyone has seen the comic strip theme about the younger generation forgetting how physical books work. Technology users laugh it off and think it’s the old people turning the tables because they don’t know how technology works and...
Often in a good movie, people will look first at the directors and writers, and then the actors. At the Academy Awards, all spotlights are concentrated on the best movie and the best actor/actress. Nobody mentions the importance of soundtracks but in a good movie,...
The viola is slightly larger than the violin. Like the violin, sound is produced by the drawing the bow across one of the four strings or by plucking the string with a finger. All orchestra string instruments produce sound in the same manner. The main...
It has been a long 2-year hiatus for Kanye since his last critically acclaimed album “The Life of Pablo”, stormed our listening charts. Finally, he brings us the self-titled album, “Kids See Ghosts”, crafted from his time and locked away in the hyperbolic time chamber...
Billie Holiday (aka Lady Day) was and still is a very influential jazz artist and singer. Holiday’s iconic jazz songs and albums thrived in a time when America was going through a time of racial intolerance. This project began with Abel Meeropol’s (aka Lewis Allan)...
Amy Winehouse, known for her soulful voice, winged eyeliner, and record breaking albums, has been revered for her talent, but has also been subject to much criticism by reviewers. In his review of Winehouse’s album, Back to Black, John Bush falls into the category of...
Pure tones don’t naturally exist but every sound in the world is the sum multiple pure tones at different amplitudes. A music song is played by multiple instruments and singers. All those instruments produce a combination of sinewaves at multiples frequencies and the overall is...
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific opened on April 7th, 1949 at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway. This musical focuses on the romance between Nellie Forbush, a nurse and Emile de Becque, an ex-patriot Frenchman. Their romance is devastated by the revelation that Emile’s children are...
One of the simplest songs created by Ralph Ralph Vaughan Williams|composer} is Riders to the ocean. Riders to the ocean is first performed in Nursing opera written in one act, with music composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams. He wrote his own playscript for the opera...
The product I have chosen is an album called Lemonade by Beyonce. I selected this album because out of the ten years I have been singing, listening and enjoying music the lemonade album 100% has stood out for me over these years and always stuck...
Music is simply a variation of sounds put together to create rhythm, harmony and melody. We involve it in our daily lives to suit our state of mind whether we are feeling optimistic and bright or are needing a relatable source of comfort when feeling...
Argumentative essay What would happen if there was no one around to lead the world? There would be no order and everyone would not know exactly what to do. Laws would never have been passed because no one would take charge enough to make sure...
Eunice Kathleen Waymon also known as Nina Simone, was born on the 21rst of February, 1933, in Tryon, North Carolina. At an early age of just three years Nina Simone got interested in music and started to learn how to play the piano. As years...
In the past few years, hip-hop as a genre has skyrocketed in popularity, even surpassing the popular reputation of rock. According to the end-of-year report published by Nielsen Music, “hip-hop represents 24. 5 percent of all music consumption in the US – the largest share...
Mexico is known for some things that range from its lovely shorelines to its little remarkable towns to its sustenance, yet another part of Mexican culture that additionally emerges, is its numerous types of music. At the point when individuals consider music of Mexico, they...
The presence of toxic masculinity in the twenty-first century is persistent, advancing the stigma around men showing emotion or behaving in a way that is deemed “weak. ” Undoubtedly, the social expectations for men to be strong, unshakable figures contribute to this prolonged practice of...
Pop culture is the entirety of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, images and other phenomena that are within the mainstream of giving the culture. Mostly influenced by mass media, this collection of ideas permeates the everyday lives of the society. The most common pop culture is entertainment...
Michael Jackson’s pop magnum opus, “Thriller,” was a cultural turning point for music as a whole. And out of all those hard hitting tracks, one truly captured the es- sence of Michael Jackson. The song, “Billie Jean,” embodies everything in Jackson’s ability to create music....
Music inspire people because they can express themselves. Music can also tell you about the artist history or life story. Imagine Dragons are an unusual band that consists of four members which are Dan Reynolds, Daniel Platzman, Wayne Sermon, and Ben McKee. The band had...