Music Article Reviews Samples For Students

Discuss specific examples of how Musicians' Village fosters a sense of community among its residents.

Musicians' Village is a neighborhood in New Orleans, which was built mostly for musicians after the hurricane Katrina. 80% of people who live in this community are musicians. That is one example of how Musician's Village fosters a sense of community. Music is very important for people living there. They believe they breathe music and that it is in the air, in the water, and for them music is everything. Al "Carnival Time" Johnson says that music is a form of life in New Orleans. Another resident, Michael Harris, says that he was in Brazil at the time of hurricane Katrina. There ...

The recent three decades have witnessed intensive studies and researches on compositional process. Although the studies on compositional process have been a common state of the affair in traditional musicology, the analysis on this process became relevant in the early 1980’s. In an attempt to understand compositional process, Owen Jessie composed a comprehensive writing, “Evidence of Cipriano de Rore's Compositional Process”. The work presents an intensive analysis and description on some issues, concepts, and facts that define effective music composition. Besides the critics from modern scholars and music experts, Owen has proved her competence on music by presenting reliable facts ...

Context Analysis

"No, sir," he went on, "nothing nearly so fine. I am very fond of music, and as my business brought me in this direction, I thought I would stop at your city and take the opportunity of paying a visit to your grand cathedral. And I am delighted I came; so pleased, indeed, that I should like to leave some memorial of my visit behind me. I should like, sir, to do something for your choir."
The above passage depicts various tonal variations, which is seen by the reply the student gave to the fellow. It showed a sense of ...

Introduction

Piracy is a vice that has taken toll with the introduction of the internet. With the introduction of the internet, there are various collections and distributions of music and TV programmes on the internet. This free collection makes it easier for people to access these programmes without paying for them. This has been a vice that has been fought from time to time. It has been blamed for the decline in the revenue in the music and entertainment industry. There are benefits that come with piracy and downloading of music clips and TV programmes. This paper will critique an article that ...

Response Paper: Sonny's Blues

Sonny's Blues, James Baldwin's 1957 short story, is all about two brothers, the narrator and Sonny, who have been estranged for a long time, but because of an unfortunate incident in each other's lives, found a way to mend their broken relationship and come to understand each other. Although the story is told from the narrator's point of view as he tells what happened to his brother and what he believed led him to do drugs and heroin, it is also about how the narrator feels about his brother. It tells about how Sonny's actions and eventual life has affected his ...

Barbara Dority believes that rap should be protected by the First Amendment because it is part of the freedom of speech. In their music, artists express their ideas, beliefs and feelings. They reflect their surrounding, their real world. The author remarks that rap and rock music are not the first to draw attention to the topics which they are criticized for. Even some operas have “unwanted” ideas. People from all walks of life should be granted the rights preserved for them by the First Amendment. These rights were not created for the elite, they were created for everyone to ...

Lois Trester piano competition is an annual event at the University of Arizona. It is a big event at the institution because by its very nature it is interactive. It is a fun filled bonding session where students from various faculties are united with a common purpose: bonding. Though this is not the main reason why these awards were launched in 2010, the competitions were introduced in honor of a beloved piano teacher called Lois Trester who passed away a few years ago. After Lois Trester’s death, the management in conjunction with the student’s fraternity found it prudent to keep Trester’s ...

Summary of the Article

Technology plays a key role in influencing the way various genres of music impact on the lives of individuals. Unlike in the past where many relied on music CDs, modern advancements such growth of the internet has led to mass downloading of music from the huge online collections that contain millions of tracks. The major challenge is how to fulfill the demands of tens of millions of people seeking to rely on the online sources for musical entertainment. In spite of music being readily available in digital form and other convenient ways of online distributions, there is need for ...

The Buchla’s Box is probably one of the most important innovation in the electronic music scene in the 1960’s. The musical instrument named after its creator, Don Buchla, is no doubt one of the greatest addition to the achievements of the music composer and instruments creator. Buchla, born to a test pilot for the air force and a teacher, always had a passion for music but put it aside to pursue a career in physics as an electronics engineer (Pinch and Trocco 33). Buchla later dropped out of UC Berkeley at the height of the Cold War ...

Article Reviews

Article Reviews

Article 1

As the author rightly claims that many literary scholars do not take hip-hop and his texts as an important chapter in modern poetry. However, rap lyrics, though being quite provocative, often represent significant social issues and problems, which in real life remain uncorrected and disturb many people.
Knowing this, there were many attempts to create a book about the features of the hip-hop language. One of the most revealing and successful one is Jay-Z`s "Decoded". He says that people need to understand that there are several layers of meaning in the rap texts. The first, of ...

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It is not a new idea that music impacts human emotions. If a person has fun, or he has good news, he will listen to funny music. If people want to relax or take a break, they will listen to relaxing music and simple melodic compositions. It appears that music impacts people, therefore, it is suggested that music can be a psychotherapy procedure. Melody Schwantes, Cathy McKinneya and Niels Hannibal (2014) wrote an article named Music therapy’s effects on levels of depression, anxiety, and social isolation in Mexican farmworkers living in the United States: A ...

Performance review

The performance was meant to entertain the persons who visited the Jazz bar in Toronto. The entire performance was entertaining as it involved a live musical performance with a live band present that adds the taste. The use of a mixture of instruments played live on the stage rather than recorded beats and sound track creates the perception of originality to the listeners. The performance has good beats and sound track. The person on stage is also lively thus transforming the power to the audience who enjoy the band from a distance. Additionally, the venue chosen for the performance ...

When speaking of minimalism in music, one cannot speak of it completely without mentioning Terry Riley and La Monte Young, who at a large extent are credited for being the pioneers of the minimalism movement (Potter, 2). The interaction between the two classmates at the University of California-Berkeley would later go on to shape a new genre of music. Riley and Young were both interested in classical music and drew inspiration from John Cage, a renowned composer and performer based in Germany (Potter, 12). In 1959, Young visited Germany and got to experience music performance from his mentor John ...

I have chosen Tchaikovsky’s overture (1812) as it recalls few of the most eventful wars stories. My favorite part is between 12:04 to 12:11 which is ‘The cannon’ and sounds like booms, five times. He wrote it for Napoleon’s army for September 1812, in order to save the battle of Borodino. Tchaikovsky composed it on request by Rubinstein. He composed it in six weeks; the flamboyance of the composition is in its finale. The music of this work starts with a deep orthodox hymn with a troarion of the holy cross. Further Tchaikovsky has put object trouve ...

The performance quality is affected by social behaviors. The paper was carried to come up an answer of how daily social skills, social behaviors during ensemble practice, and the evaluation of music ensemble performance. 64 out of 68 female music majors responded to performance questionnaires created for the study entire. To assess the causal model of the relationship among social skills, social behaviors during ensemble practice, and the evaluation of group performance, it works employed structural equation modeling. The scores for social skills, styles of handling interpersonal conflicts, and leadership, the scores and social behaviors during ensemble practice revealed ...

Caron Daley (2012) considered the connections between the work of Emile-Jacques Dalcroze and the choral rehearsal. The author asks about the instrument of the choral ensemble and proposes some variants. She proposed to realize the practical application of theories of Emile-Jacques Dalcroze.
Everything comes from the idea that a whole body is the choral instrument. At first, Emile Jacques- Dalcroze considered this issue and stated that people do not realize the connection between music education and qualities of musicianship. The capabilities of the body relate to choral singing. For example, some of his students had enough skills and education, ...

Introduction

Women have been exploited through the Hip-hop culture by men artists who ascribe them as sexual objects. According to Joan Morgan, and Ayanna's writings about women exploitation, it is evident that a large percent of women have engaged in Hip-hop music for fame and fortune. Hip-hop culture and ideas emerged from African-American and Latino-American young people who exhibited misogynistic traits against women. The misogyny aspect of Hip-hop culture is ascribed to discrimination practices against women, self-worth, and peer relations. The Hip-hop culture has embraced these misogynistic and exploitative practices against women. On the contrary, some women rappers have come out ...

In Bakhtin and Adorno

In Bakhtin and Adorno
Mikhail Bakhtin’s essay From Rabelais and His World discusses the role of laughter and comedy in past and present culture. “Laughter and its forms represent . . . the least scrutinized sphere of the people’s creation,” Bakhtin writes (2002, p.83). He discusses the development and practices of carnival-type festivities in Roman and medieval times. As opposed to official feasts in which rank and order were of great importance, or “a consecration of inequality” (2002, p. 88), carnival existed as “a suspension of all hierarchical precedence” (p. 87). The introduction to the test suggests that Bakhtin’s examination ...

Article Review

How to prepare the future generations of professional singing teachers? What special voice pedagogy programs are the most successful? What are their curricula, educational philosophies, facilities and special feature? Darelene Wiley and Patti Peterson as the representatives from eminent graduate voice pedagogy programs share their experience with the readers about the important issue, how to teach a voice teacher in the Teaching Voice Teachers article published in the Official Journal of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, Nov 2008.
The first part of an article is written by Darelene Wiley, who is a highly recognized voice teacher who ...

Source

The article chosen is by Lizardo Omar. It was published on January 3, 2011. The title of the article is “experiential stratification bases and consumption of high status culture”. It is from the journal of theory culture and society, volume number 28 pp. 678-696.

Purpose of research

The key question that the author seeks to answer is whether people in order-giving positions have a high chance of engaging in high status culture consumption in contrast to people in order taking positions. He notes that research has proven that culture consumption has continued to be shaped by variables that are associated with prestige and ...

Description and social roles among boys and girls

China’s national views on gender roles between girls and boys have been challenged over the years, and the video describes the problem faced in the country. Girls and boys have been treated differently, and there is a strong need for equality advocacy to be able to attain gender balance. In the country, women assumed a subordinate role than the male gender that is often considered superior to the female gender. However, today women have transitioned from the passive wives role to the passive workers role though this is yet to be attained in many regions of the country. ...

Sanchez, D., Steece-Doran, D., & Jablon, J. (2013). Planning for positive guidance. Teaching Young Children, 6(2), 8-10. Retrieved from http://www.naeyc.org/tyc/article/planning-for-positive-guidance
The article entitled Planning for Positive Guidance speaks of the effort of teachers to become role models as they reach out to their students. The main purpose of the study is to implement positive guidance in the classroom with the use of the three powerful steps of interaction which are: to be present, to connect and to extend learning. The interaction method was implemented in a classroom of preschool children in Pahoa, Hawaii.
In trying to implement the three ...

Article #1: Becker, R., et al. (2011). “Functional dysphagia therapy and PEG treatment in a clinical geriatric setting.” Dysphagia, 26, 108-116.
1). Summary: The article by Becker et al. delves on the outcomes of two Functional Dysphagia Therapy (FDT) with one group using percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG), and another group of non-PEG users.
2) Element: The victims of stroke and those with cerebrovascular diseases have neurogenic dysphagia, 50% and 30% respectively. The result of this study revealed a mortality rate of 19.7%, and lower for the second group of non-PEG users which is at 8.6%.
3) Outcome: Those ...

Article #1. Martins, S.R.M., & De Oliveira, D.S.F. (2014).
This article discusses the results of a two-stage speech therapy tests performed on the elderly, 45 in all and between the ages of 60 and 85 years old. The speech therapies resulted in improvements in 73% of subjects with dysphagia, and voice improvements on 62% after 11.6 sessions (Martins & Oliveira, 2014, p. 1120). Although the article makes no mention on the morbidity and mortality rates of dysphagia and dysphonia, it nevertheless affirms that “neurological diseases are common in the elderly” (Martins & Oliveira, 2014, p. 1120). In this respect, it can be ...

Maps: (image 5)

The maps are to be taken while the research projects and for the reason of certain places of the human beings and civilizations. These are believed to be the main source of information as these were created under particular conditions and the cultures. The maps are made under specific factors, weather and the perceptions; these are gathered by the historians as needed by the researchers. Maps are used for the understanding of the situation at a particular point of time and under particular conditions and polishes. The maps are the grounds and the first hand knowledge of the person who ...

It’s not easy to know what is true for you or me

at twenty-two, my age. But I guess I’m what
I feel and see and hear, Harlem, I hear you:
hear you, hear me---we two---you, me talk on this page.
(I hear New York too.) Me---who?

Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.

I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
I like a pipe for a Christmas present,
or records---Bessie, bop, or Bach.
I guess being colored doesn’t make me NOT like
the same things other folks like who are other races.

So will my page be colored that I write?

Being me, it will not be white.
But it will be
a part of you, ...

Response Paper

In his paper, Notes of a Painter, Henri Matisse presents the idea that art should be able to speak for itself and should present itself, in a way, that a context is not mandatory to appreciate the art piece. He says that expression does not lie in passionate human face or violent movements. He believes the entire setting in a picture is expressive and everything plays its role in projecting the image of the artwork. So if something is not useful in a picture, it obviously means that it is harmful. He believes that expression lies in the very composition of the picture too, ...

This paper mainly highlights on the use of cinema sound as text in the production of films. It aids in the multi-dimensional understanding of the image analysis and sound production analysis; in the cinema films. The article places interest on the extended use and importance of borrowed instrumental music in the creation of cinema sound. The usage of symphony sounds borrowed but highly contrasted from instrumental music showcase the difference in the definition of film sounds and music in overall. All of that is aimed at reviewing and analyzing the physical phenomenon called sound.
In this perspective, in ...

1. African American males who like to have sex with other men without caring what others say about them, call themselves as ‘men on the down low’. They just do not prefer to be at places which are popularly known for the people with gay tests. Jeffrey Q. McCune discusses about their trends, habits and other aspects and further scrutinizes ‘The Gate’, a Chicagoan club known as a black gay hub. This premise witnesses a couple of unique things about the African American gay blacks.
The gate is a place where a couple of other activities take place like fashion, music, dancing, negotiations, ...

Business Case Analysis of 1 Up Toys

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Business Case Analysis of 1 Up Toys

Ronald Mannak, the founder of 1uptoys, created a company out of a desire to develop cutting-edge toys and gadgets. His friend, Patrick Grasso, decided to enter into business with Mannak. Both Grasso and Mannak invested a total of 24,000 Euros with Mannak having a “55% share” in the company (Smits & Bodewes, 2011, p. 5). In order to get more capital to start the company, Mannak made the decision to sell the idea before developing the products. In June 2006, SilverLit decided to sign a licensing agreement with ...

Summary of the Article

The article generally speaks of the reality of forgiveness and what it brings to other people in an individual and group basis. It begins with the realization that, according to studies, forgiveness interventions results in decreased anxiety, depression, and anger, and in increased self-esteem, hope, and positive affect (Magnuson & Enright, 2008). These factors show that forgiveness can provide beneficial impacts upon society at large.
The model for forgiveness intervention by Enright and Worthington were first implemented in educational institutions as a social scientific work. However, an emphasis was given on the fact that forgiveness first finds its shape in ...

Introduction

The Chinese people experienced eminent growths in terms of art and their culture between the period of 950-1200 AD. There were many developments in music, philosophy, literature and visual arts, which blossomed due to printing activities, hence making the Chinese culture spread to other regions. Among the major contributors towards this growth are the Song, Ming, Qing and Yuan Dynasties, which did many paintings and poetry to reflect further their culture 1. These works of art were exhibited for viewers during religious and other seasonal activities, an event that made the Chinese appreciate their culture. At some point during ...

Introduction

SOPA or stop online piracy act is a proposed bill which targets to eliminate the infringement of copyright. This is by blocking access to any site that is facilitated or host pirated content. Stop online piracy act was formed to target any oversea site such as torrent hub, which is widely known for providing unlicensed product. The creators of web content have had an endless war with the web content piracy for an unusually long time. The fact that these websites are located overseas makes it difficult to, totally, stop it. The intention of SOPA was to ensure that the ...

Musical Lyrics

The title of the song is Walk Away and the man behind the song is a British singer Michele Monro known as Matt Monro. As an artist, Monro has a romantic voice, capable ofsensitively caressing the ballads, and he provides pleasant vocal interpretations of pop and Hollywood standards. The artist writes the song for reasons such as being happy and being sad. The title itself reflects a negative meaning but as you listen to the entire lyrics of the song it conveys positive emotions. It is full of love, compassion, and great concern. He sings from the heart and soul.
The ...

Marat/Sade is a film directed by Peter Brook and is based on a play by Peter Weiss. This film can be described as a play within a play. Originally a stage play, the director adds the techniques of cinema. This is important in identifying the difference between directing a film and directing a stage play. While a film director has the power of forcing the audience to see what he or she wants them to see, a stage director does not have this power. The theater provides an experience whereby the audience can look at any place or part on the stage. However, in the movies, it is ...

Art décor - history
42nd Street – the art décor element in the film
42nd Street was released in 1933 and includes several interesting and intriguing elements which combine a backstage musical with sets that were very much in keeping with the designs of the day. First and foremost 42nd Street came out of the years of the Great Depression and this meant that some elements also influenced the staging. The musical is actually filmed mostly backstage so we sort of get a window into what is going on behind the scenes.
The sets in the film ...

James Baldwin’s short story, Sonny’s Blues, is about two brothers who grew up in Harlem, but end up living very different lives. The unnamed narrator is a married schoolteacher living a conventional life still in Harlem, and his brother Sonny is jailed because of a heroin bust. When the story begins, Sonny is in jail, but when he gets out of jail he goes to stay with his brother back in Harlem. Baldwin’s story has many important themes, including human isolation, suffering, control, and artistic expression.
The theme of human isolation runs throughout the story and connects with ...

Question 1

Does the Harlem Renaissance have one unified style?
No, the Harlem Renaissance is characterized by the multiple experimenting of different forms and styles. This cultural movement encompasses a wide variety of styles including music, poetry and plays.
The variation and experimentation of styles and elements of this cultural revolution evident in the poems of Hughes, McKay and Countee contributed to a new identity or consciousness – ‘New Negro’ identity.
The poetry of Cullen and McKay has roots in conservative traditional poetry influenced by European literature while Hughes’s style is more modern.
Experimentation and diversification provides the basis ...

The Bali people believe in the existence of a goddess called Dewi Sri to whom they tirelessly give offerings in bamboo shrines. They believe that this deity had existed even before the Hindu traders brought Hinduism to Bali in the 7th century. This is a clear indication that most of the Balinese are Hindus even though there are other unorthodox religions such as Buddhism and Confucianism. According to Grunert, 93 % of the Balinese are officially Hindus.
It is essential to note that the Balinese believe in the widespread of other spirits all over, inhabiting landmarks like rivers and large rocks ...