Essays about Music Page 3

Our contemporary music has diverged from the 80’s, reflecting the preferences and trends of today’s generation in terms of genre and style. The origins of music can be attributed to the Greek muses, a collective of nine goddesses linked to art and science. Approximately 500 B.C., Pythagoras performed scientific inquiries into acoustics, exploring the mathematical…

Music is one of the best ways to communicate with other people. It is a channel of communication that attracts more enthusiasts and even advocates. The expression of views, feelings and emotions, opinions and other matters may be done through music. That is why music is also considered as a means of living. Music artists…

The Human Resources (HER) function is concerned with the issues of managing people within the organization. It develops, advises on and implements policies relating to the effective use of personnel. Their aim is to ensure that the organization employs the right balance of staff in terms of skills and experience, and that training and development…

The incorporation of explicit lyrics in popular music has always been a means of pushing the boundaries of artistic expression. In today’s music industry, artists continue to push these limits, sparking debates about the benefits and societal concerns surrounding the use of explicit content. Some argue that it serves as a strategy to generate controversy…

MR. HOLLAND’S OPUS is a film by director Stephen Herek, written by Patrick Sheane Duncan, and produced by Ted Field, Michael Nolin, and Robert W. Cort. This emotional drama is a classic fictional story about Glenn Holland (Richard Dreyfuss), a man with a deep love of music, who has a desire to write at least…

Since its inception, the defiant elements of punk rock have always expressed interest in upholding leftist norms and ideologies, from issues within the music industry to political and social concerns; Punk Rock has defied all practices of various domains that pose a threat to the common good.  It is in such context that the music…

Carrie Underwood, born in Muskogee, Oklahoma on March 10, 1983 and raised in Checotah, Oklahoma, grew up on her family’s small farm with two older sisters. Her mother, Carole, worked as a school teacher while her father, Stephen, was a paper mill operator. During her childhood years, Carrie participated in talent shows and town events….

George Martin – Being for the Benefit of Popular Music This essay will present the argument that George Martin’s production techniques and approaches, specifically of the Beatles catalogue of material from 1967 onwards, have made a significant impact upon the development of popular music. This impact has principally been in the areas of technical innovation,…

 Why I chose this topic? Whilst many of my peers chose such topics as “The effect of propellers on velocity of an aircraft” and “The best water filtration method,” I decided to take a different approach to my selected topic for my first-hand investigation. I wanted to spend the next 3 months investigating not only…

Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho of 1960, a film in which Hitchcock himself wanted to stop filming due to his own unhappiness with its progress, has become one of the most iconic films of the 20th century. The film has been analyzed, critiqued, and admired by professors, students, critics, and fans alike; “it is probably the most…