Essays on Singing

Everybody has something innate that is endowed upon a person without compensation and voluntarily. According to Richard and David, every person is endowed with a calling that help them to fulfill a unique purpose in this world. For me, there are various gifts that rejuvenate my determination and shape up means to achieve my goals in future. Such gifts include a gift of singing, a gift of storytelling and a gift of cooking. I realized that storytelling is my gift when my cousins and my neighbor’s kids started to beg me to tell them bed time stories especially Continue reading...

2 Movies Review

"King Vidor Hallelujah"

The movie "king Vidor hallelujah"' is a fine production of black and white era, with the distinction of the first sound film of King Vidor. The cast, the plot and musical direction, aided the perfect view of non stereotyped African American life. King Vidor remained explicitly intact with the production, direction and script development of the movie. The plot is more like a
The musical supplement of the movie is deeply inspired with black entertainment and religious music of the time. The other depictions that mark the existence of proficient classic art in the movie Continue reading...

What would it be if singing birds don’t sing?

If sky is white and clouds are mellow green,
If shadows hide one human fellow’s sin.
How would he find his little wedding ring?
One day, I wish, I would come home from work,
And hear my little puppy scratching door lining.
I would hear birds so closely deeply sing,
I would hug my puppy, glancing at the clock

In light brown room, ignited only by the moon,

I sense that someone’s always watching me.

A pair of big owl eyes winking from the silent tree,

Assist my day from morning till the noon.
Owl winks and winks, and time is passing by.
One day I would wake up at dusk
And tear to shreds my horrid Continue reading...

Overview

Mahalia Jackson was born on 26 October, 1911 in Louisiana. She started her career as a child singer at the Church of Mount Mariah. She proved herself to be among the most influential gospel figures in quite short span of time. She was an internationally known figure to the music lovers. She passed away on 27 January, 1972.

Early Life

As cited in “Just Mahalia” page 5 written by Goreau, Mahalia Jackson’s parents were Johnny Jackson and Charity. She was one of the all-time music‘s great figures in the field of gospel’s music. She had a rich and Continue reading...

Revolutionizing the Musical Stage of Northern Italy

Although not as popular as Bach, Claudio Monteverdi, Schutz, Charpentier or Pachelbel. Barbara Strozzi was a representative name for Baroque music. Daughter of poet Giulio Strozzi's servant, born in 1617, she lived an intriguing life, later becoming the most respected and appreciated female composer of the 17th century.
She was adopted by her mother's master, a rather famous Venetian intellectual, who saw to her musical education. Her first notable teacher was Francesco Cavalli, already reputable singer and  composer. The news of her talent soon spread, and Nicolò Fontei dedicated her no less than two solo songs books, the first Continue reading...

Looking the versions of “The little Mermaid” by Disney animated film and Andersen’s text, there is a very clear similarity .In the Disney’s film, the Sea Kings youngest children is the Little Mermaid. The same scenario is repeated in the text by Christian Andersen. It is also seen in both the text version by Christian Andersen and the version by Disney that the King gives permission to his daughters to visit the surface once they attain a certain age.
The Little Mermaid sees the prince on a boat for the first time when she reached the sea Continue reading...

I have chosen to take a look into the piece “Heebie Jeebies” sung by Louis Armstrong. The piece was first recorded in 1926 and it is generally the first piece recorded into the scat-technique. Other performers that played this piece were Chick Webb after an arrangement by Benny Carter and the Boswell Sister that performed the tune on radio.
Jazz was a music genre that has emerged in America in the beginning of the twenty century and was developed from a confluence of African and European music tradition in African American communities in the Southern United States of America. Continue reading...

There are diverse groups of people who consisted of the tribe of Sasan. The people that firmed this society ranged from beggars, conmen, beggars, singing girls and many more groups of personalities in the society. These people had divergent ways through which they made ends meet. It did not matter the methods through which these people earned a living. The end justified the means. It did not matter to them provided they managed to put bread on the table.
Murmu (98) records that Abu Dulaf a poet, who lived in this society, developed a poem that he used to Continue reading...

The Native American history and culture as we know it is rich and vibrant. Often mistaken for savages who had nothing better to do than scalp intruders and run naked through the woods, Native Americans were more civilized than first documented . Each tribe, large or small, was a society unto itself. They had forms of counsel, or government, and different tools they would use to maintain order and assign jobs. They planted crops, hunted, and continued their survival based on what the land was willing to give. When not concerned with survival, however, the Native Americans began to cultivate Continue reading...

Prevalently, music forms an integral part of each and every religious ceremony. Evidently, almost all the dominations have espoused the imperativeness of music in various religious functions. A notable fact is that despite various denominations agree on the pivotal role of music, the nature and type of music each denomination play has a complete variation. The primary reason for the mentioned variation is the fact that each religious group has distinct principles that govern the usage of music. Similarly, a myriad number of the religious group has totally different perspective when it comes to religious music. As a result Continue reading...

1. One of the most important events from the American history that had also an impact in the popular music was the war for the civil rights who was led by Martin Luther King.
2. The second event was Woostock.
3. The perception of black people music change from the earliest style in the nineteen century by getting under its umbrella a large range of musical genres like ragtime, jazz, blues, doo-wop, rock and roll, hip-hop, soul ,dance and techno.
4. The Ed Sullivan Show was an American TV variety show hosted by Ed Sullivan and the show hosted Continue reading...

Throat singing, also known as harmonic singing, is a style in which the vocalist simultaneously produces more than one pitch by reinforcing certain overtones and undertones of the fundamental pitch. The singer employs different vocalization techniques, taking advantage of the resonance characteristics of the throat, to produce two or more notes at the same time. Precise movement of the lips, jaw, tongue and the larynx enables the singers to produce special harmonies.
Throat singing originated from the Turko-Mongol tribes of the mountains of Altai and Sayan in southern Siberia and western Mongolia. These communities are located in Central Asia Continue reading...

Walt Whitman’s Romantic thinking and Its Characteristic

Walt Whitman’s poetry is highly influenced by the Romantic ideas. Like other romantic poets, the subjects of his poetry were often ordinary people and from low life. As a democratic poet, he truly uses language of the ordinary people which he feels can express the inner feeling of an ordinary man about his day-to-day life. Following the romantics, he wants the poetry to be the spontaneous expression of the poet’s own subjective feeling and it should not follow the poetic convention of classical doctrines.
In his poem “I Hear America Singing,” Walt Whitman describes how carpenters, mechanics, Continue reading...

Introduction

The film short for paper is a very short film running for approximately one and half minutes. This film begins with a high angle shot as a lady is sleeping before she is woken up by noise form outside. As she wakes up she realizes the voices of people singing making her change her mind and she goes back to lying on the bed pretending to be fast asleep. Then a young guy by the name Zhang and his lover approaches while singing and dancing. The lady pretends that she is fast asleep so these two lovers do not Continue reading...

Coleman is more of an innovator in the field of jazz music. In fact, together with his band mates, they went against the grain by redefining their own style of jazz and stopped following the conventional forms that had been used there before. There before, jazz musicians run a tune’s change. Instead, he chose to use unfettered melodic inventiveness. Coleman went out of his way to play his kind of music and tunes that were pre-given to him. His style was different and therefore, he came up with his own signature which was identifiable to only him. He Continue reading...

In his article, “The Gal Yippers Have No Place In Our Jazz Bands.” (Down Beat 15 October 1939), Ted Toll is at pains to point out that a good jazz vocalist should not be simply based exclusively on the sex. He is scathing of women due to the fact that he believes they are too artificial and this perhaps reflects the attitude which was prevalent in the time regarding women – one has to remember that this was 1939 and women were treated as quite less than important in those days.
However the main thrust of Toll’s article seems Continue reading...

Music is a great thing to listen. It influences our thoughts and actions in different ways. Jazz is a musical genre originated from a mixture of European and African musical ideas that are filtered through the American experience.
Louis Armstrong- hotter than that (1982).
Louis performs his music with a brief introduction of instruments playing. The sounds give away to a wonderful swinging chorus on the cornet. The use of trumpet by Louis creates a wonderful melody accompanied by the use of drums, which makes the music a hot six and the bass created a hot seven. For his Continue reading...

Music is known to be universal but the jazz music emanated from slavery as African slaves came with their sounds which they fused with the church sounds and folk songs and songs from Europe in a bid to find consolation in their new surroundings. In the midst of everything it was used to unite the people. While Jazz music is being credited to gaining recognition through Buddy Bolden, the story of Jazz music cannot be discussed without one way or the other inadvertently coming back to Louis Armstrong whom many have claimed to be the greatest of Jazz musicians. Continue reading...

THESIS: But it’s not before long that she started singing alongside her mother at the age of fifteen and by nineteen, she navigated herself into the world of pop from gospel distinctively R n B as well as Soul.
- INTRODUCTION
- Describing music
- Introducing Whitney Houston
- Where and when Whitney Houston started singing
- WHITNEY HOUSTON’S STARDOM
- Whitney Houston’s music career
- Whitney Houston’s songs
- Whitney Houston’s chart presence
- WHITNEY HOUSTON’S SUCCESS
- Houston’s Grammy Winnings
- Houston’s contribution to the movie industry
- Other Continue reading...

The pygmies call themselves children of the forest. They inhabit the rainforests in the Central African territory which include Central African Republic, DRC Congo and Cameroon. Their outstanding feature is their height with the males being slightly taller than the females. Their height makes it easy for them to exist freely in the dense rainforest. Economically, they are hunters as well as gatherers blending well with their forest environs. The kind of lifestyle they lead in the forest enable them to have enough time for leisure thus doing dances and music.
Their kind of music is traditionally oriented. Their Continue reading...

As I entered the theatre I was quite on the edge feeling very much enthused by the wonderful music that was on offer. The choice of repertoire was indeed varied and included several pieces by a wide variety of composers ranging from the baroque to the modern. I took my seat and waited for the soprano and pianist to make their exit on to the stage brimming with anticipation.
Ayodele Cambell, a young but very promising soprano started off the evening with a fine rendition of Parisotti’s aria ‘Se tu m’ami, mi sospiri’. She was also very Continue reading...

As I entered the theatre I was quite on the edge feeling very much enthused by the wonderful music that was on offer. The choice of repertoire was indeed varied and included several pieces by a wide variety of composers ranging from the baroque to the modern. I took my seat and waited for the soprano and pianist to make their exit on to the stage brimming with anticipation.
Ayodele Cambell, a young but very promising soprano started off the evening with a fine rendition of Parisotti’s aria ‘Se tu m’ami, mi sospiri’. She was also very Continue reading...

The concert kick started with a classical Jazz song called Perdido. The music though slow was a treat to the years. The song was performed by the duet of Juan Tizol and Duke Ellington. Both sang the song indeed beautifully and maintained the perfect tempo and atmosphere required for the song. The saxophones and Trombones complemented them. It wasn’t long before people joined the singers in singing the song and I was no exception. The song and the performance suited the event and gave a desired and perfect start to the event.
The engrossing performance was followed by ‘ Continue reading...

In this essay, I will argue that geography, including relative location, topography and climate, do indeed affect music, but that this influence has not been as strong in recent history as major advancements have been made in sound technology, most notably the invention of the radio, personal music players, and later the Internet, to lead to the globalization of music.
Furthermore, the education and training required to become a classical musician or composer demands that the musician practice indoors, away from the elements and unwanted distractions. Not only has the evolution of classical music been determined by the elements, Continue reading...

I love the quote by William W. Purkey, “ You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody’s watching, Love like you’ll never be hurt, Sing like there’s nobody listening, And live like it’s heaven on earth.” I love dancing and singing, and am very passionate about it. At the same time I’m passionate about my relationship with my girlfriend Pratishruti, whom I call Pratzie lovingly.
I am travelling back to Korea especially to be with my beloved on her birthday and also to celebrate one year of our relationship. I am so filled with excitement, Continue reading...

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12) Blues text is set to 12-bar blues, with each stanza set to a 12 bar chorus. AAB pattern where first four bars and second four bars have the same line, but a longer concluding line is said in the last bars.
13) Rap removes the notes from the saying of lyrics; instead, they are spoken aloud to the rhythm of the song.
14) Blues inspired songs by having simple 12-bar rhythms with repeated stanzas, a very Continue reading...

- Memphis is the home of the music genre rock n roll. An example to support this is the observation one of the genre pioneers came from the place. He grew up there and requested bar owners to let him in their clubs so that he could listen to their music.
- Sam Phillips was behind the sun Records. The studio gave the people a platform to air their view and oppression through the music. The studio did not discriminate and thus was a voice of the minority and civil rights.
- A. the musical style of Elvis Presley was Continue reading...

Psychology

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Abstract

In this study the autonomous factor is the type of environment in the restaurant. The dependent variables are the amount of food consumed and the time spent in the restaurant. The dependent variables show the changes that occur depending on the independent variable that is selected. As such, comparisons of the two Continue reading...

The Muses of Greek Mythology

Creative people such as artists, writers and musicians often use phrases such as “I need a visit from my muse” or “my muse was the inspiration for this poem (or other work of art).” The idea and concept of the modern day muse comes from ancient mythology. Greece’s most powerful God, Zeus had many children but nine of his daughters, were unique from the others because they were the muses. Each of the nine daughters possessed unique and divine powers and a love of knowledge. Each sister was beautiful in her own way and all of them were Continue reading...

This essay will analyze, assess, and describe the significance of Mise en scène used in the 1952 musical comedy film “Singin’ in the Rain,” directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, which starred Gene Kelly himself alongside Debbie Reynolds and Donald O'Connor. The scene that this essay will focus on is the scene where the song “Singing in the Rain” is performed by Gene Kelly ("Singing in the"). Mise en scène, “a French term meaning "putting into a scene "” (Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 2011), is basically the term used to describe the design elements of film production. In other Continue reading...

Introduction

Lester Bangs was born in 1948 and he grew up in a family where his parents had little time for him with his father being a drunkard who battled with alcoholism his whole life. He had been to jail a number of times and he never interacted with his son that much. Therefore, Lester took an interest in music and writing. This is what kept him busy in the empty family life he led during his childhood and in his early teens. He almost became a vegetable from drug abuse at one point during his adolescence. He however, reformed Continue reading...

Vocal music is the form of music performed one or more singers. This genre of music may be performed with or without the use of instruments as accompaniments. Vocal music is principally formed of sung words known as lyrics (Apel, 1969). However, there are some forms of vocal music that are presented as sounds, noises and non-linguistic syllables. A song refers to a short portion of vocal music that is made of lyrics. Vocal music may be referred to as the oldest form of music since it does not depend on instruments. It mainly depends on the human voice, Continue reading...

D.H. Lawrence "Piano"
The title of the selection is "Piano" and the author is D.H. Lawrence. First publication date was in 1919.
The poem is set in the dusk, and the place is cozy without external distractions, so that the main character can indulge in thinking about past. The singing of a woman takes him back to memory that is pleasant. The room where they are located is comfortable, so that he can relax enough to receive mental images.
The main character is a man who is grown-up but feels nostalgic about his past. He how safe and protected Continue reading...

A few years after Doris Lessing’s wrote the Grass is Singing, Richard Wright releases yet one of the most compelling novel the depicts the story of an African American fugitive slave—The Man in the Underground (1945). In this novel, the lead character, Fred Daniels attempts to escape from a corrupt history and a corrupt society. From a privileged house servant, Fred Daniels character develops into an underground criminal. In the course of Daniel’s journey, Wright reveals a layer of racism above ground. This novel is also quite similar to Ralph Elison’s Invisible Man. However, Wright Continue reading...

Of all kinds of entertainment, movies are, by far, the single most popular type. People are so used to watching films cablecast on TV that they cannot envision the time when no sound was to be heard coming from beyond the screen. Indeed, it is difficult to imagine soundless motion pictures, which used to be a reality more than 100 years ago. Cinematographic was an infant industry in the second half of the 19th century. However, in the early 20th century, experts created the first movie with a synchronized sound coupled to image reproduced on the screen. Actors and Continue reading...

The late 1950s and 1960s was an era of tremendous social upheaval throughout the country; (Weber, 2013). It is during this time that the Sam Cooke and Freedom Singers sang their hearts out in a quest for equal rights. The original Freedom Singers musical group started in 1962 in Albany. Its purpose was to raise funds and awareness for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). They were a group of four young African-Americans, namely, Rutha Mae Pooles, Charles Neblett, Cordell Reagon and Barnice Johnson Reagon. All four members of the original group were under age 21. Three of whom Continue reading...

Live Concert Analysis - Reggae - Bob Marley & The Wailer’s (1975)

Introduction

Bob Marley & The Wailers is band reggae from Jamaica that was created by Bob Marley, Hubert Winston McIntosh (Peter Tosh) and Neville Livingston (Bunny Wailer) in 1963. Peter Tosh trained Bob Marley and Bunny wailer into using the musical instruments that is, playing guitar, keyboards, and the percussions (Chesebro 256-270). In the later years, the band had increased in number, and when Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer left the band in 1974, Bob Marley organized international tours, and a high number of his band members were from Continue reading...

Who was James Brown? He was known my several monikers that paid tribute to his talent and contributions to the world of American music. Many have heard the term “God Father of Soul” or “the hardest working man in show business.” Of course, no one is sure as to whether “hardest working” is a description for amount of times spent in practice and musical development or how passionately he danced. James Brown was an American singer.
James was the originator and chief pioneer of the style of music known as funk. Thus, he deserves credit for its complicated grooves Continue reading...

Franz Schubert was an Austrian composer, who lived in the end of 18th – first half of 19th centuries. According to his creative works he belongs to the early Romantic period in music, which characterized by interest to the folk songs, depicting of brave and tragic heroes etc. Schubert was not famous during his life but decades later he was highly appreciated by such famous composers and musicians as Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms and Robert Schumann. Besides, the ordinary audience familiarized with his musical pieces and he is still very popular at the concerts in philharmonics and opera houses.

The Continue reading...

Erlkonig (Schubert) “Lost Your Head Blues” and Hallelujah (Handel) AS Vesta Was Descending (Weelkes)

Introduction
The song “Lost Your Head Blues” was written by Shubert in 1782. The song talks about the death of a child due to supernatural influences. Many classical composers have used the song to test for their song voice and piano tones. However, the song came into public domain in 1797(Snyder, 1996). Hallelujah was composed by George Frederic Handel in 1741. The song was first performed on 13th April 1742 in Dublin. The song emerged as one of the most popular song in London for more than one year. The song thereafter turned out to be one of Continue reading...