Essays about Music Page 20

            To be blue refers to a mood of being sad or depressed. The blues in music and poetry are reinterpretations of this mood by musicians and writers into an art form. Baldwin and Hooker are right when they declare that the blues are universal in that the mood or the emotion of melancholy is…

Puccini’s “Un Bel Di” vs. Adele’s “One and Only” “Un Bel Di” of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly is perhaps the most well-known aria of all time. In this particular piece Butterfly, the main character of the play, is painting a picture of her lover’s return. What Butterfly fails to realize is that her husband is no…

Illegally downloading or copying copyrighted music for personal use or commercial gain is stealing, plain and simple. Most of us would never ever consider stealing something from a friend’s or even a stranger’s house. We have a sense of right and wrong which keeps most of us from doing something like that which is against…

George Bernard Shaw And Pygmalion Essay, Research Paper George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin, Ireland on July 26, 1856. He lived with his lower in-between category parents as the first boy of three kids. His male parent owned a failing maize milling concern and had a serious imbibing job. Shaw realized the consequence of…

Jimi Hendrix perhaps no other rock-and-roll trailblazer wasas original or as influential in such a short span of time asJimi Hendrix. Widely acknowledged as one of the most daring andinventive virtuosos in rock history, Hendrix pioneered theelectric guitar (he played a right-handed Fender Stratocaster–his “Electric Lady”–upside-down and left-handed) as anelectronic sound source capable of feedback,…

Its no wonder why Tupac Shakur – aka 2Pac sounds so irritated and/or hungry in his second studio album Strictly 4 My N.***.A.Z… released on February 13 1993. The 22-year- old former drug dealer had problems of his own with the law. During the early 90’s Tupac Shakur had been accused of various lawsuits including…

About everyone has heard of Napster and its long debated issue s of file swapping and sharing. Sing Napster s ephemeral being of about a twelvemonth and a half, they have surely opened many people s eyes. Some say the file trading that Napster allows everyone to make is illegal; others says it s merely…

Johann Sebastian Bach, a member of a family of musicians, is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers in Western musical history. He left behind over 1,000 compositions, including the Art of Fugue, Brandenburg Concerti, Goldberg Variations for Harpsichord, Mass in B-Minor, motets, Easter and Christmas oratorios, Toccata in F Major, French Suite No…

The Broadway musical was a time of innovation in the world of musical entertainment as it integrated music into the plot in order to advance it, reveal character, or create mood. Before this, forms of entertainment were provided for amusement only, however, with the Broadway musical came the theme of more serious issues that made…

Fuel, an American rock band established in the early 1990s, has gifted the world with a powerful musical legacy, resonating with fans of post-grunge and hard rock genres. Integral to this legacy is the voice of the band’s lead singer. While the group has undergone several lineup changes over the years, its lead vocalists have…