Essays on Music

Music is a form of art. Art is originally a way of expressing human beings, which requires understanding and feeling. Most people say that they like jazz, but they typically choose a jazz style in the low-level melody, which people can generally feel comfortable and...

After World War 1, many new activities and new technology emerged into a new era called the roaring 20s. One of these new subjects that emerged was a new form of music called jazz. Jazz was, and still is, a very popular branch of music...

Jazz is a music style that is one of a kind, complex, and charming, yet it winds up a standout amongst the most famous music sorts today. Individuals from everywhere throughout the world hear it out now, yet did you realize that it was first...

The Nashville sound isn’t quite what you’d expect. The Nashville sound doesn’t have fiddles and steel guitars. It’s more of a refined sound with chorus singers in the background and orchestra style playing for the instrumental. The point was to get people to listen again...

I attended a Dierks Bentley concert on August 23rd, 2019. The concert was held at the Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre in Tinley Park, Illinois. I found the venue to be very fitting for the artist and his method of performance. It was outdoors and still rather...

Almost everyone in my family is musically inclined, and like them I am too. My dad used to play the bandurria; while my mom used to play the violin. My sister plays the Marimba while my grandma and uncle play a similar instrument, the piano....

Introduction Studying is one of the biggest habits and demands amongst college students. Studying background noise preferences range amongst students from quiet library sections to uplifting and calming music from coffee shops. While some students prefer to work in silence, others need music or some...

Stevie Wonder and Jacob Collier: two artists who, although generations apart, are more similar than I had originally realized. This essay will examine the correlation between their careers, musical styles, lyrical complexity, and historical impact as musicians and artists in pop culture and the music...

Before Facebook took over the internet and stole netizen’s social lives, there was one social networking site that permeated the early years of the era of social media: MySpace. Somehow, it still exists today despite the three giants of social media (Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram)...

“Carpe Diem” translated to “pluck the day” or “seize the day” has many definitions but in the following paragraphs there will be two definitions that will show my understanding of “Carpe Diem.” One of the definitions is to woo men or women and the other...

In my essay I will be discussing the musical style of Elvis Presley and Travis Scott. Firstly, I will give a little background information on Elvis. As we all know he is one of the biggest names in rock ‘n’ roll in history. The 1950s...

Orfeo can be described as a very charming yet ambitious character in Monteverdi’s “Orfeo A Tale in Music.” Through the power of his music he strongly believes that he is able to change his fate by bringing his beloved wife Eurydice back from the underworld....

Elvis Presley is one of the most significant members of rock and roll history. At first he grew up as a poor white, country boy. Peter Guralnick describes Elvis pop-out as “so sudden, his music so fresh, his personality so evocative that he could not...

Steveland Judkins Morris, more commonly known as Stevie Wonder, to this day remains one of the most talented and innovative people to have made their mark upon the music industry. Wonder grew up in Saginaw, Michigan, and was signed to Motown Records in 1961 at...

Throughout this essay I will be exploring the revolutionary semi-opera that is King Arthur. I intend on delving into the reasons for its success, why it was controversial, as well as looking into the writer, composers and and their perfectly refined work. King Arthur is...

Introduction The purpose of this essay is to describe the plot, two scenes, and my overall thoughts about the play Amadeus. Amadeus had to do with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri. Salieri was also a composer who also was jealous of the natural gift...

Claude Debussy (1862-1918), was known famously as one of the leading composers involved in the Impressionist style of music. He was ‘one of the artists who represented the nation’s essential spirit and taste most brilliantly abroad’. It was clear that Debussy’s style of writing music...

Kendrick Lamar’s third studio album, To Pimp a Butterfly, works as a continuation of black poetic literary traditions and its uses to document the Black American experience. To Pimp a Butterfly, has pushed Lamar’s status as a leading voice in the new generation of hip...

In this essay I will make an analysis of the song Give peace a chance by John Lennon. Give peace a chance is an amazing protest song which was written in a time when the entire world was talking about racism, injustice while barely anyone...