Song College Essays Samples For Students

Introduction

The film, City of God, provides a broad perspective over which a number of issues can be drawn. A story is told of a generation of children trying to survive in one of the biggest slums in Rio de Janeiro in the sixties and the seventies. Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund direct the movie the city of God. The main character in the movie is Li’IZe. At a tender age, Li’IZe who is the main character in the movie had wanted to become a leader in the City of God. Through Li’IZe’s aggressive and ambitious nature, he becomes ...

The movie The Educators by Hans Weingartner puts forth all the struggles of the post-unification in Germany. In Berlin, consumer and proletarian societies have eventually been forged together, and thus the film mainly struggles appropriately to find a stable balance between the issues. The movie mainly represents a trio of three very rebellious liberals, who decide to break into the homes of wealthy capitalists to rearrange their belongings and furniture rather than stealing the precious items. Additionally, this trio decides to leave a note passing a certain message such as notifying them as well as warning others. As the movie proceeds, the trio ...

Introduction

The duty herein is to assess and evaluate the speech presentations given. The paper covers those speeches given at the Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research, for the year 2014. Professor Bill Cunliffe is the key speaker, representing the Music Department at California State University at Fullerton (CSUF) and has delivered the longest speech presentation (taking up approximately half of the video) brief comments on the other three speakers shall be included. As a key academic field, speech communications empowers people to prepare for careers in many areas. For example, ...

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 ...

Question 1

In my opinion, composition of workforce is a major factor in determining the company’s ability to produce future leaders. There are several reasons for this point of view. Firstly, management consulting firms or other companies with similar composition of workforce have a larger portion of employees that are already close to the CEO position. Holding managerial positions, they have abilities, skills, knowledge, and situation-specific experience that are directly related to leadership functions required to run a company successfully. Secondly, managers have a much better professional network within an industry than lower-level workers. As a result, they are well informed about job opportunities that ...

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. ...

“Control” is a song by rap artist Big Sean, which is the stage name of rapper Sean Michael Anderson. The song lyrically develops a story of us versus them in terms of black Americans living in Detroit, the city where Big Sean grew up. The song showcases a common practice in hip hop music today—other artists collaborating with each other on their music. The song features Kendrick Lamar and Jay Electronica. The song is important of new rap music from a cultural standpoint in how it portrays the new scene, belongs to the old tradition, and paints the picture of what ...

The society, today, is faced with numerous challenges on the effective ways of dealing with the rise in popularity of the hip hop and rap culture, the hardest task being, to draw the line between the negative and positive effects of this culture especially amongst the youth. Abortion in the other hand is an issue that that has polarized the society with opposing sides drawing hard stands on the issue. The debate has been given a new twist in relation to addict mothers and if they should be allowed or even forced, to abort their fetuses. This discourse will explore ...

Analysis

Clearly, music videos function to enhance an artists’ idea, and help the listeners understand the exact message they are trying to pass. As much as the music videos help an artist in making more money through more sales, they are vital in expressing the artist’s ideas. Therefore, music videos are more than just ideas, and when bonded with the lyrics, they create a perfect picture of what an artist is singing about. Evidently, this can be seen in Avcii’s video called Wake Me Up. His musical video creates a story about two stars who seem to be lost and ...

Introduction

The ancient and classical periods in the Chinese history made a great change on the production of multi-tons of iron when no one in Europe could melt a single ounce of iron. The Chinese later understood on how to reduce the excess carbon content to a low level such that the metal became strong and very resilient instead of brittle (Ward 181). They called the final item steel.

Papermaking was the second most pleasing contribution that led to the increased spreading of civilization. Tortoise shells, bones, and bamboo slips were ‘the main article used for writing before china developed framing them to ...

Ancient music had very distinct styles, musical instruments and elements were easily distinguishable as the songs progressed. The following is an analysis of five songs in terms of the style, tempo, musical elements and form.

- Analysis of the song “Crazy Blues” by Mamie Smith and her Jazz group (Recorded August 10 1920) (cfa.arizona.edu)

Several musical instruments as were use in the song. The sound of a trombone comes first then that of a clarinet and violin follow in unison. The sounds produced by these instruments produce a very distinct tune. When the Mamie Smith sings, several elements of music can be noted these are timbre, harmony, pitch and rhythm.

The song is in classical jazz style and I could tell ...

The song, ‘Scream’, which Michael Jackson performed, featuring his sister, Janet, plays on the idea of someone being so bored or frustrated that they want to scream. The video carries this idea on by showing the two in a futuristic setting which draws on dystopian traditions to explain the pair’s boredom. The song itself mirrors the visual presentation of the accompanying video through its use of electronically-altered screams and shouting. The song and its video reflect Michael Jackson’s persona through its relation to teenage and childish boredom where children are literally so bored that they scream and ...

Music has always played a very significant role in people’s culture and development. Since ancient times it was the way of sending hidden messages and reaching the desirable audience, sometimes even to make people do something. For instance, one can easily observe that his/her mood changes greatly when listening to certain song or track. Moreover, it is not a secret anymore that certain type of music is used in commercials in order to make listeners buy certain products or services. Basically, music is one more way of mass media that manipulates people greatly without them even realizing it.

Let us ...

Question # 1:

The right to free expression is a very important thing in a society - many of society's or an individual's ends are met through this right. Mill states that "To have a right, then, is, I conceive, to have something which society ought to defend me in the possession of. If the objector goes on to ask, why it ought? I can give him no other reason than general utility" (Utilitarianism, 1861). As a result, it can be inferred that rights are generally useful to the individuals who receive them, including the right to freely express oneself.

Free expression permits ...

There are differences on the correctional systems in different countries. For instance, some countries openly advocate for death sentence while others do not. For instance countries like Mozambique, Cape Verde, Namibia, Angola and south Africa have abolished death sentence for all crimes. Others which enable death sentence are In the US crime, for which the death sentence can be imposed include; murder related to smuggling of foreigners, murder as a result of a drug shoot-out, killing a congress member, murder associated with the transportation of explosives, among others.

Death sentence in the US serves two main purposes; “retribution” and “deterrence” ( ...

Introduction

The Boston museum of Fine Arts has a large collection of objects that have different historical relevancies. Most of the objects have similar characteristics as far as texture and composition are concerned. However, individual differences in aspects such as the spatial illusion they portray and the color they have makes the objects unique. Over the years, the museum has done a great work in collecting different objects from different artists in order for them to be stored. This paper will analyze two objects from the museum: Sons of Liberty Bowl and the sugar box. Important to note is the fact that ...

I attended a live jazz performance that was organized by my school because it offers jazz education on the 15th day of April 2013.The performance was at Bryan theatre in my school that is ``Washington State University”. The show started at 8:00p.m and ended at 8:45.Matt Harris was the composer as well as an arranger in this event due to the fame and experience he has gathered over the years working with various famous ``bands” across the world and he did not disappoint the audiences as expected.
The atmosphere was welcoming. Everything needed for the event was at its ...

Acoustic guitar and drums are heard during the intro. The overall texture of the song is thin because it is the acoustic song. Drums are keeping the tempo during the song. I would say that the tempo of the song is slow. The mood of the song is sad. One of the features that show that is the acoustic instruments. I do like the mood of the song. It is slow and resembles meditative music. The dynamics of the song does not change. It is rather difficult to change the dynamics of the song, because it is acoustic. The ...

For the analysis, I have chosen song by Metallica “Blackened”. The song lasts for 8:02.

Instrumental element

In the song, the band used percussion and string instruments. In the very beginning, the first part of the intro (0:00 – 0:36) a growing sound of guitar is clearly heard. In the next second, 0:37, a listener hears drums. Since that time, the second part of the intro.
The vocalist begins to sing since 1:22. We see that instrumental intro is rather long. The vocal element contrasts on the background of instruments. In the song, we hear soft guitar sounds, loud drum beats and sharp ...

Poetry and song share common themes or ideas. Each idea is carefully crafted to create a mood or tone, to tell a story, or simply to entertain an audience. Either way the reader or listener is left with different feelings and emotions. The writers make use of figurative devices, rhymes, rhythm and imagery to create the overall mood and atmosphere. In the poem “Because I could not stop for Death” by Emily Dickenson and the song “Flirted With You All My Life” by Vic Chesnutt, both writers view the inevitable nature of death and the impact death has on an individual’ ...

Many people in the society today love music depending on how it relates to them. There are songs that explain what is going on in the society and some that talk about people’s hopes and dreams. In the twenty first century, the songs still have the same purpose, and many of them are about what is going on in the society today. An example of a 21st century song is Royals by Lorde. The song talks about the way the people today focus on material things. It is an interesting song, slow, with good instrumentals that make the song ...

Introduction:

The Beatles are probably the greatest rock band of all time and their musical style evolved substantially over the years. There are also some iconic albums such as ‘Revolver’ and Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club where extraneous influences permeated the songs and created a unique style. Amongst the most important of these influences was the Eastern effect which came upon George Harrison in the years 1964-65 and which was to find its way into ‘Revolver’ (Barrow p 65). The essay thesis is an argument over the transition from Help to Revolver where the experimentation in sound reach its zenith with ...

Amiri Baraka performs his poem "Something in the Way of Things (In Town)" with The Roots in their 2002 album Phrenology. This album is full of issues reflecting love and fight for social justice. The album collects various issues that affect people in the underground fighting to have their rightful position in the world. In this song, Amiri Baraka and the band use stomp like hip hop beats to express their view on inequalities in the American society. The title of the song comes from Baraka’s poem “In Town” and he raps the lyrics from his poem where ...

“A HARD RAIN’S A-GONNA FALL”

1. Introduction:
Every piece of literature, be it a book or a song, literary devices have always been used to support their theme and meaning. The stronger the use of these devices, the stronger their impact would be. Most of the times, writers and authors use imagery as a tool to create this effect, but in terms of songs, artists make use of different techniques such as repetition, to make their songs stay longer inside the head of the listener. In this essay, we have analyzed such a song called “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” by Bob Dylan. Also, the lyrics ...

Summary and Annotation

Summary
Concerning Whitman and the Rhetoric of Democracy, the author examines the poem “Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman. DeLancey observes that Whitman begins his poem by appealing to the readers to embrace him. He dissects Whitman’s poem into different parts and discuss the parts systematically. DeLancey notes that Whitman couples subject and object thereby demonstrating what he refers to as the Wordsworthian rhetoric of unity. The Wordsworthian rhetoric of unity refers to a rhetorical aspect where authors’ present different things as one thing, which communicates through them to recognize each with all. Accordingly, the author perceives the ...

200-Word Response #7 & #8: Shakespeare’s “Sonnet LXXIII” (1609)
1. What is the metaphor in line 4?
The metaphor in line 4 is invocative of the emptiness of old age. The speaker is comparing the lively song of spring bird-songs to youth. The poem takes place when these songs of since ceased for the speaker, and instead of “sweet” bird songs, there is now just “Bare ruined choirs.”
2. What is the extended metaphor in lines 1-4?The extended metaphor is invoking the season of Winter (or perhaps the end of Fall) with the time in the ...

In the present day age, censorship has become part of life. People experience it daily such as blurred images from video clips and bleeping from radios. It is being experienced though most of the media platforms and people have learned how to embrace. Censorship of music started way back, even before the 20th Century. Though the methods of censoring music back then were different from those employed in the present age, it was still censored. Apart from the given tactics, one of the other methods that have emerged on censoring musical contents is by sticking parental advisory warning labels ...

Indian classical music influencing western music in 21st century

The concept that Indian classical music has influenced western music has gained so much weight in the recent years. Classical music is the considered to be the music of east. While hip hop, jazz, rock and pop music is associated with western culture.
Introduction: the influence of Indian music is very prominent on western music. There are various evidences that show how western music is inspired from the Indian classical music. When we see at the Jazz music, it’s played in clubs, concerts, and even in balls. In the beginning, it was played in few western countries ...

Despite what many think, or what many may want to think, Hinduism has been leaving its mark in America since the 1800’s . However, at that time the religion was relatively insignificant to the local population, due to the small number of Hindu’s in the country. It was not until the 1970’s that the Hindu population became a number great enough to sustain the public’s interest in the religion. Migrating by the thousands to work in the medical industry, as well as IT, their religion both intrigued and mystified a public ready to take on anything after the ...

A free spirit and the urge to change the entire world making it a better place are what define me. This dream of the ideal world makes my heart pound and provides me with the push to move forward in the journey of life and work in favor of my dream to create a world where there is no discrimination and sadness. That would be the world which I have always envisaged.
John Lennon’s song Imagine has always inspired me since the time I heard it for the very first time. I believe this song is the perfect description ...

1960s 5 songs

Introduction
A concept theme song is studio album in which the lyrics and the music revolves around a single theme or a unified story unlike the other studio albums in which all different songs are there. In 1960’s several concept albums were launched. The concept album can instrumental or compositional, lyrical or narrative. The first concept album was released by Lee Wiley in 1930on the liberty records which contained eight songs. 1960s became an unforgettable era for concept theme albums with the release of many influential and unforgettable albums.

Arthur (Or Decline And Fall Of The British Empire)- The Kinks

The kinks preservation society wrote this song which was their ...

Introduction

In the year 1991, Fraunhofer IIS a company in Germany developed what is today known as MP3 format. This innovation revolutionized the distribution, storage and how music was being consumed. Main Reasons for the rapid distribution and revolution of music plays a vital role in today’s lives. Despite the fact that, it requires time and the effort to be able to find a suitable music that fits our taste, a Radio station and also record labels that we prefer. Since, radio station ends up only deciding what we listen and the time we do so (Reeza Fazily, 2011).
Another innovation similar ...

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The paper is going to explain Singer’s argument in “Famine, Affluence, and Morality”. It will highlight the steps pointed out in his argument and elaborate their relationship to one another. Finally, it will elucidate Singer’s conclusion on the previously mentioned. Singer underscores that when we have the power to prevent very bad happenings without sacrificing anything significant morally let us do it (Singer, 1972, p.2). That is, it is upon every one of us to ensure we do not allow a situation to graduate from bad to worse, when we ...

"Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning)"

Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?Were you in the yard with your wife and children?Or working on some stage in L.A.?Did you stand there in shock at the sight of that black smokeRisin' against that blue sky?Did you shout out in anger, in fear for your neighbor?Or did you just sit down and cry?Did you weep for the children who lost their dear loved ones?And pray for the ones who don't know?Did you rejoice for the people who walked from the rubble?And sob for the ones left below?Did you burst out with pride ...

In reference to music, the Romantic era was a period of music that started in the early 19th Century. The exact dates of this era are given, as 1815-1910. One of the greatest composers of this period was Franz Schubert. The music of the Romantic era was quite distinct from music of this Classical era, which had just preceded this era. There was a lot of freedom exhibited in the composition of the music of this era. The music placed more importance on the expression of emotion. There was also a tendency to explore imagination, adventure and fantasy though the music of ...

I will analyze the song, The 4th Branch by Immortal Technique. I will also give details of the song and background details including the social context and genre in which The 4th Branch was written. I will also explain my reason for choosing the song and its meaning. Further than that, I will also state the ways in which The 4th Branch plays in the social setup of the society (ghetto). Finally, I will give my analysis of The 4th Branch and the role it plays in shaping the political game.
The 4th Branch is a symbolic song that ...

English composition is a prose representation of ideas. In this case, the ideas must be in a logical way so as to bring forth the desired meaning. A composition has a structure that must always be adhered to when tackling English tasks.
A composition should have a clear introduction which shows readers that, the writer has commenced to write. In essence, it is not always the practice that, the word introduction is written down. A composition should be structured in paragraphs. Each paragraph should represent a clear idea which should always be in link with the preceding and succeeding paragraphs.
In order ...

This gentleman has genuine mega-talent, spanning 6 decades of poetic writing, peaceful protesting, and the awakening of the youth movement.

Bob Dylan, is one of the musicians who sparked several genres of pop music which included electrified country rock and folk rock. This was evidenced in the height of his popularity during the 1960s. His influence in music has been echoed throughout various generations; this is because most of his music became popular standards and all of his albums became undisputed classic rock and roll canon. The influence of Dylan throughout the era of folk music was very powerful and it made a pivotal turning point in the 20th century. It was during this era that the genre of music ...

These paintings are being compared and analyzed together because they show the standard of what constitute art at that period. Unlike Gentileschi’s previous works, The Annunciation is free from heavy influence of Caravaggio’s style which employs theatrical and irregular composition. Oftentimes this composition is seen as dramatic and in monumental composition. However, at the time when Gentileschi is doing the said painting, he is beginning to develop his own style, away from Caravaggio’s approach. In this work, the painting still shows the lyrical gestures and the sense of involvement with the scene although the figures are ...

Question #1

The early slaves that came into the United States experienced several difficulties at first. They did not have a common language thus making communication among themselves and with their masters very difficult. However with time they came up with ways to communicate and key among them was the ability to sing. When they came to the US as slaves, they brought African melodies, rhythms and instrumental techniques which they would use to compose different songs. Since they lived with the White people, they would get exposed to White people music which they fused with their own melodies to come up ...

When it comes to classical music, the symphony and the concerto are two of the most recognizable genres. Classical artists like Wolfgang Mozart. J.S Bach, J F. Handel and Beethoven wrote countless symphonies and concertos that are still popular today. Mozart is generally considered a “genius” when it comes to musical compositions and in this essay, two of his greatest works are going to be analyzed and compared. The two works include a symphony and a concerto. The first is the symphony no.40 in G minor, K, 550, (first movement), while the second is the Concerto for Flute for Orchestra in D ...

Our college leadership normally organizes dancing competition events for the students from different faculties in the college. The major activity is usually dancing. This week, the student leadership organized an event for students, which involved dancing over the night. The event was held in the university auditorium from 11 pm to 6am in the morning. The attendees were mostly students from within the university though youths from the surrounding community were also invited . Male and female dancers compete on stage motivated by various rewards that they receive after winning. As such, they were expected to dress up to the ...

Pop culture has a tendency to glorify certain aspects of femininity, while constraining women into certain prescribed roles. Women who do not fit into these roles are shamed by the media; for instance, women who do not fit the prescribed role of beautiful and thin are often backhandedly complemented by the media. Women who work in media-- whether they are actresses, models, singers, or journalists are constrained by very real gender roles that are slow to change. If, for example, a woman does not behave in a manner that the media deems appropriate, she is often spoken about in negative terms by ...

In spite of love being the notion as old as the world is and as clear as glass, many profound thinkers and philosophers have contemplated on this topic and expressed their views on subjects what love is and whether it is here to be or not. Although both ‘Love song’ by Joseph Brodsky and ‘Is Love Dead’ recited by Dedalus reflect on the theme of love, the differences in respect of structure, themes and stylistic devices make them two completely opposite poems.
The first thing to pay attention to is the formal organization of the verses. ‘Love Song’ ...

Jazz is a diverse art so attending a concert is always an interesting event. I managed to squeeze my way into the Hard Bop Jazz Ensemble Group to attend a concert they gave at the South Florida University campus some weeks ago. It was an interesting event, since this group is renowned as amongst the best in the area and is packed with several emerging musicians of the highest calibre.
The Hard Bop Jazz Ensemble performed at several events of note, and these include major jazz festivals held in Switzerland, Italy and Holland where they always garnered considerable praise and critical ...

Psychedelic rock is an important element of rock music and in Jimi Hendrix’s songs we find this style completely at one with the mood of the time. Essentially, although psychedelic rock consists of several distorted and original sounds, it is intended to put a person into a trance and make you forget all the woes which are consistently troubling us. I have considerable experience in psychedelic rock, having listened to various albums from the late 1960’s including those by The Doors and later those of the Australian band, Rush. The influence of drugs such as LSD and others created ...

A letter to a friend about the Chug Water Band

Dear Josh,
Recently, I have been to a musical concert played at a country bar called Sundance, by the band "The Chug Water Band". The performance was for two and half hour straight without any breaks. Many bands out there that are half their age couldn’t handle a show for straight and continuous two and half hours.
The group is of seasoned musicians that have seen the huge amount of exciting audiences from various zones of the cities as from Italy, ND to TX to Germany, France, VA to LA, Finland, Switzerland and Denmark. After several years spending, they ...

English

The Beatles made people swoon and dance to their tunes in the 60s and 70s, and it was during this time that a man by the name of Elvis Presley turned Pied Piper and had women the world over follow his music like the children of Hamelin. These personalities were so popular that they could make people stop in their tracks and take notice. So powerful was their music that even politicians tried to make use of their popularity to gain political mileage. Music has always found a way to one’s heart, and it’s no different when young African ...

This poem is a love song composed by Robert burns, a Scottish poet whose poems mostly fall under the genre of love. In “red rose”, the reader is made to read about a romantic affair of two persons who are intimately in love. This essay will ventilate the poem with a view to analyzing its structure, theme, subject matter, characters, stylistic devices that the poet uses to convey his message and the traits of the characters that the poet uses in the poem.

Structure of the poem:

This poem contains four stanzas. Each stanza comprises four lines/verses hence each of the stanzas is a quatrain. Each line is ...

Early cinema was interestingly preoccupied with race; many of the great early films, for better or worse, addressed the conflict that occurred between people of different ethnicities, and their relationship to the greater whole of society. D.W. Griffith’s controversial The Birth of a Nation and Alan Crosland’s The Jazz Singer were no exceptions; both have problematic depictions of African-Americans, but while The Birth of a Nation provides no subversion to its unironic endorsement of the KKK, The Jazz Singer manages to use its depiction of blackface as a greater metaphor for the shirking of one’s cultural heritage for the ...

Organization

Introduction:
The literary treasures of third world countries are often lost in the melee of the practical problems that afflict these nations. In the wake of the war, there happened to be a person who somehow ventured to retrieve the lost assets of Vietnamese folk culture and ended up creating a beautiful compilation of poetry which we now know as Ca Dao. It is not that Ca Dao is a modern avatar of Vietnamese poetry; on the contrary, it is one of the oldest. However, thanks to the likes of John Balaban, the world is now aware of it spellbinding aspects. ...

Analysis of Lyrics

Viva la Vida is a song by Coldplay which is about a king who rejoiced in life being in power; it is actually about the life of a deposed king who has lost power after a revolution. This song particularly refers to the French revolution or the Roman Empire, after which the king is reflecting his life back then. He has been pondering about how the world was in his hands, that, in just a single command the sea would rise, how his people praised him and sang in his name, how his prosecutors dreaded his presence. Yet, everything has become the opposite by ...

Although the three forms of opera, oratorio and cantata all include the human voice, they are substantially different in their concept and subject matter. The Baroque period saw the evolution of these three styles with opera also developing substantially. The oratorio was largely developed by Handel and the main difference between it and opera was that it usually treated a sacred subject rather than a secular one which was always opera’s remit. The cantata was also usually with a sacred theme although there are several cantatas by Scarlatti which have a secular theme to them.
The baroque opera began with some ...

Jazz is a unique style of music that took development in America during the early 20th century. It made a widespread popularity particularly in the urban areas such as New Orleans, and it served as a social-leveler and unifier. Melding both black and white citizens, Jazz became the basis for social dance music and the provided the early opportunities for public integration (“Jazz”, Encyclopedia.com). The music also helped stir up the national mood particularly during the Depression and the Second World War. The most remarkable period of the development of jazz is during the 1940s and 50s. During those times, social issues ...

High noon

Edward Hopper is one of America’s finest artists that ever lived. His work has always been dominated with lonely people either looking outside the window or seated at the café table or just standing at the door staring anxiously outside. Usually, there is no presence of any activity within the pictures. The “high noon” is one of these paintings depicting a woman standing at the door staring outside, lit by direct sunlight and surrounded by an enormous house. The skies behind the house are large and very blank. This unusual composition, displaying a house cropped off at one of its ...

Characters in a musical are a useful media through which the composer communicates his message to an audience. The message is put in context for it to resonate/ relate with the target audience. The methods used to package the message in the song are varying. Some composers and directors opt for the explicit representation of situations, as they would be, while others seek to imply an underlying message within their musical works. In the context of a musical, the composers and directors package songs that carry individual messages, while also making sense when evaluated together within the musical. Each song acts as a ...

Schumann’s ‘Dichterliebe’ is one of the most important song cycles in the history of music and its sixteen songs are all essentially great works. The final song is a beautiful one called ‘Die alte bosen Lieder’ where the strands of romantic art come together in a beautiful manner. This paper will attempt to argue that the song is an important part of Schumann’s artistic style and that the marriage of words and music is almost perfect.

Structure and meaning of the poem:

‘Die alte bosen Lieder’ by the famed German poet Heinrich Heine, is a dark and brooding poem in a typically melancholic setting which was all ...

Bob Dylan’s style is very much of the ages and he manages to strip down the music to the barest of its essentials. ‘All Along the Watchtower’ is a typical example of music which is stripped down to its bare essentials as Cantwell describes. All we hear is the basic instrumentation which makes the song all the more bleak and full of alienation as well as eventual resignation. These elements are reinforced by Dylan’s consistent exposure to folk music as well as other themes which make his songs so involving and full of character.
Cantwell also identifies ...

Music is food for soul, a statement that clearly defines the importance of music in our lives. People with different tastes listen to different types of music to clear their head or just to give their minds a little time out. The rhythm beats and the lyrics, altogether, can inspire, encourage, and help the listener in the best of ways. However, are these effects of music always positive? Profanity and vulgar language in music has become not only an open concept but common too. This essay attempts to explain that obscenity in music negatively affects one’s mind and personality. It ...

Johnny Cash arguably became one of the most influential people to ever step onto a stage with a guitar. He won many awards and honors for his contributions to music. Later in his career, which spanned over five decades, he was also a published author. These and many other achievements earned him places in not one, but three prestigious music halls of fame. However, not many know about where Johnny Cash came from, or the story of his life behind the curtain, when he stepped off stage.
Johnny Cash was born the fourth of seven children, in Kingsland Arkansas. His siblings ...