Essays on Singing

Is Walt Whitman's poetry devoid of structure or shape

Walt Whitman is the typical poet that composes his poems based on the traditionally recognized forms of poetic structure and prose. His poems are unique and often appear to be unorganized in the most unorthodox of ways. Because of this, his poems might depict a lack in structure or pose. However, according to the fundamental forms of poetic structure, most of his poems do have a structure and shape needed to qualify them as poems. They are not easily recognizable, but that does not warrant their absence. Structure in poetry is inclusive of the arrangement of lines or stanzas that is ...

Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald are two prominent divas of jazz. To compare their stage performance is not a simple task. On the one hand, their impressive musical performance differs in that Ella has a unique gift of singing in a range of three octaves. She was using her unbelievable voice like a well-tuned instrument. It was best reflected in her scat singing.

Ella’s the “First Lady of Song” had the utmost success. On the other hand, Billie was known for her tones and nuances that triggered very strong emotions. Unlike Ella, Billie used a far more elastic approach to the words in ...

A poem titled “The Solitary Reaper” gives a reflection of the power of imagination and the manner in which imagination can transform events surrounding us in our day to day lives (Mahoney, Page 5-19). The poem gives a representation of various realities that surround our day to day life. It further brings out the poet as a romantic individual and that to him imagination is not just to be used as a synonym when writing poems by creating some fantasy. The writer saw an opportunity to relate the imagination closely with various intuitions, as well as emotions in his piece of work. ...

Billy Joel’s 1973 song “Piano Man” is one of the most popular pop songs of its era, and an endlessly catchy and fascinating song to listen to. A piano and harmonica-driven ballad about a piano lounge singer and the characters that inhabit that lounge, Joel provides wonderfully clear, tenor singing to back up sprightly instrumentation

The song begins with a piano solo that has its roots in jazz improvisation; syncopated piano playing starts out the song, uneven rhythms providing an explosion of music right at the beginning before the song settles into its harmonica-and-piano melody. A steady 3/4 tempo ...

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 about adventures. Whenever, I am telling ...

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 is a ...

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 ...

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 powerful voice that ...

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 one ...

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 surface. This ...

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. The style ...

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 describe the ...

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 different ...

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 of this, each ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 recognize her presence. Zhang ...

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 found ...

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 ...

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 trumpet solo, the quality of his ...

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. He ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 fine in ‘ ...

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 fine in ‘ ...

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 ‘Down for ...

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, but ...

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 ...

1) G 2) I 3) K 4) J 5) H 6) B 7) E 8) D 9) F 10) C 11) A 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 ...

- 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 ...

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 ...

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 very smart ...

William Wordsworth’s famous lyrical ballad “The Solitary Reaper” tells a story from Wordsworth’s wanderings through the Scottish Highlands (Poetryfoundation.org). As Wordsworth and his companions wander the countryside, they come across a young Scottish maiden singing to herself in a field as she cuts the grain that she sowed earlier in the season. Wordsworth seems transfixed by the beauty of her song, and he stops to listen to her sing in the field; although the initial reaction of the speaker is to the beauty of the voice and song of the young woman, the speaker—ostensibly Wordsworth himself, although this is ...

1. Rock musicians are contributing to the decline of language by singing in a slurred, mumbling manner. 1. The premise of this statement is that all rock musicians sing in a slurred, mumbling manner, and also the hidden premise that singing in a slurred, mumbling manner will lead to the decline of language. The argument infers that all rock musicians sing this way and that singing in this way is depreciative to language. Due to this, the conclusion is that all rock musicians are leading to the decline of language. 2. The author seems to be oversimplifying the issue, in ...

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 words, mise ...

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 and decided to go ...

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, which ...

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 ...

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 argues more about slavery ...

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 film directors ...

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 were daughters ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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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 ...

Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl” is a poetic construct of no beginning and no end, an intrusion into a list long recommendation of a mother to her daughter on how she should attend to her work in the domestic sphere and how it will put her back on the right path in life, instead of the one she is supposedly, on now. The mother fervently believes that by telling her daughter exactly how to do her womanly duties, the daughter will be saved from a life of debauchery and promiscuity and she will become an empowered (female) head of household and eventually, a prolific member ...

Communication

Introduction Gestalt psychology is built around the theory that the brain processes images and information in a holistic manner and creates self-organized juxtapositions. As per gestalt psychology, therefore, the ‘whole’ is invariably larger than ‘the sum of the parts’. Accordingly, the mind tries to make sense of images through the processes of ‘proximity’, ‘closure’, ‘figure-ground’, ‘common fate’, ‘similarity’ and ‘good continuation’ (Liquori, 2011). The principles of Gestalt can be best explained with a painting as an example.

Analysis of a Painting Using Gestalt Psychology

Figure 1: The Singing Butler (Vettriano, 1992) ‘The Singing Butler’ is a famous painting by Jack Vettriano (1992). In the image, we see a ...

Introduction

According to Kim (2007), the Korean Wave can be applied to many aspects, aside from making a more profitable economy for the country. The term Korean Wave gives it a generic definition which symbolized the “Korean-ness” of their cultural products, but more importantly, the nationalistic sentiment that made Korea a big hit not just in Asia, but the rest of the world. Aside from the popularity of the K-pop groups, the Korean cultural products became global success due to their uniqueness and fame (Kim, 2007). Hyun-key Kim (2013, p.135) stated that the term “Korean Wave” or otherwise known as “hallyu” in Korean ...

Final Field Notes

Observation: A Little Dynasty Chinese School, Miss. J’s beginner-level classroom. This is the basic Zhuyin class and so Miss. J teaches the students the Chinese Alphabet. The beginner-level class is very spacious and colorfully decorated with student writing projects, stickers, posters and Chinese-themed learning charts. Brightly inviting colors have been used for the interior design of the classroom. There is also a language arts wall displaying different aspects of the Chinese language (grammar, spelling, punctuation and numerals). There are a number of book shelves that are filled with Chinese literature. The two huge windows at the back of the ...

Music Appreciation

The Temptations The Temptations is a popular American vocal group that was started in the 1960’s. The Temptations group was created in Detroit, Michigan in 1960, under the name, The Elgins. The members of the original group when it started were from two Detroit rival music groups;Paul Williams and Eddie Kendricks from the group, The Primes and Elbridge AL Bryant , Otis Williams, and Melvin Franklin from The Distants (Williams and Romanowski 178). The groups met at a house party organized by Janet Poole, a friend of The Distants. After they met at this party, the two groups merged and ...

- Pitch Perfect - Identify the Climax: The climax of the movie was the part wherein the protagonist, and the other members of her band, the Barden Bellas, made it into the intercollegiate a capella competition’s finals to fight once again after suffering from an embarrassing and devastating loss the previous year. In the climax, the Barden Bellas came in to fight, once again, their long-time rival, an all-male a capella singing group from the same university, in the competition’s finals. The outcome of the climax was a win for the Barden Bellas in the singing competition. - ...

Music is an integral part of everyone’s life. There is no aspect of any person’s life which does not include music or has never been influenced by music. There are many who take up music as a career and so we find that many colleges and universities across the world have included many programs and courses in music. These programs are directed towards those people who want to learn about this art. But in the daily course of life music provides a very good medium for expressing one’s thoughts and feelings. That is why one would see that ...

The canon of classical and contemporary music

Since the dawn of time, music has been one of the most important cultural inventions of humanity. The use of music to convey knowledge and share information is so profound that almost all existing societies today have its own musical heritage. Music has always taken a vital place in the development of human culture. In fact, instrumental music and songs are regarded as one of the highest form of art by any culture at any point in time. From the tribal traditions passed on from generation to generation through songs, to the highly commercialized music industry of today, music is ...

Introduction

The Caribbean and the Latin America have a rich musical heritage ranging from classical and classical-influenced styles, folk traditional music and the modern popular music. It has different countries and regions such as Jamaica, Brazil, Peru, Haiti, Virgin Islands among others. The vastness of the involved area and ethnic collection makes the music from the region the most efficiently discussed and since it is acculturated. This paper seeks to explore a descriptive analysis of Tango and Nuevo Tango of Astor Piazzolla, Brazilian Bossa Nova Movement and Afro-Cuban Music from different orchestras such as Machito, O’Farrill styles among others. In addition, ...

Introduction

The Life of Coretta Scott King Coretta Scott Smith James was born on April 27, 1927, in Heiberger, Alabama, the third of four children of Obadiah and Bernice Scott. Her family lived on a farm that it had owned since the end of the American Civil War, as Southern society transitioned from a slavery economy to an interaction of free people. Her family was not very wealthy, but her father was the first black man in the neighborhood to purchase a truck. The children did have to pick cotton during the Great depression to help bring in money, but her father ...

Essay on Romantic Vocal Music

Abstract This essay addresses the chronological development of the vocal skill bel canto, German Leider, and music dramas. It traces the unique era in the opera masterpiece and the persons overdue the standard works in Italian Opera. This work further outlines the characteristics of romantic music and composition work.

Introduction

Romantic music is a term denoting to a specific period in European music antiquity from about 1815 to 1910. Romanticism designates the enlargement of recognized structures inside a composition, creating a composition more fervent and sensitive. During this era composers twisted their devotion to the countenance of strong feelings in their song and were ...

Trifles, by Glaspell Susan, is a play that tries to draw the line between morally correct and incorrect actions. This it attempts through the choice of moral development schemas, which either seek to uphold morally correct principles which are applicable universally or those which are differentiated and reflective in nature, dynamic with changing sets of circumstances. However, through the play, the issue of feminism or the lack of it is clearly brought up (Gilligan 39). In this play, a murder most foul occurs. A woman referred to as Minnie Wright is the main suspect in her husband’s murder n ...

Music

“Lost Your Head Blues” was popular during the last half of the Roaring Twenties. It was sung and written by Bessie Smith, a black singer from Chattanooga, Tennessee who became known as the Empress of the Blues. Frank Music ASCAP published the song in 1926. The style is down home blues from the South with a city feel. The instrumentalists were trombonist Charlie Green and cornetist Joe Smith; the pianist may have been James P. Johnson. “Flow my Tears” was written by John Dowland who was born in England in 1563. He composed and played songs for the lute. This song ...

Michelle Williams becomes Marilyn Monroe in the film My Week With Marilyn. It is obvious that Williams spent hours studying both movie and news footage of Monroe. Williams perfectly portrays Monroe’s voice, body language, and facial expressions. This film gives viewers a glimpse into Monroe’s fragile ego. Monroe’s low self-esteem causes her to be late on the movie set and influences who she chooses to have in her inner circle. The story is told from the perspective of the young Colin Clark. Clark was only twenty-three years old when he landed his first job in filmmaking ...