Essays about Music Page 40

Scott Joplin, known as the “King of Ragtime” music, was born on November 24, 1868, in Bowie County, Texas near Linden. He came from a large musical family – his father, Giles Joplin, played dance music as a slave and his mother, Florence Givens Joplin, sang and played the banjo. Four of his siblings also…

Movie: Wolfgang Amadeus MozartThe movie takes place in Vienna, Austria in the 1700’s. The film beginswith the attempted suicide of Antonio Salieri, a court composer of the AustrianEmperor. He is placed in a mental asylum where a priest visits and asks for hisconfession. Salieri claims to have caused the death of Mozart. The rest of…

In the poem “Funeral Blues,” W.H. Auden’s choice of diction allows the reader a greater understanding of the intensity and depth of feeling experienced upon the loss of a loved one. Likewise, the symbolism used by the poet pulls us into the actual world of the grief stricken as he searches for ways to mourn…

The ending of the Beetles was inevitable, they had gone trough too much as friends and as people to continue in the manner that they had in the old days f “Love Me Do”, but their final album “Abbey Road” is a testament to the greatness of this band who had achieved so much in…

James Baldwin’s short story “Sonny’s Blues” highlights the struggle because community involvement and individual identity. Baldwin’s “leading theme – the discovery of identity – is nowhere presented more successfully than in the short story ‘Sonny’s Blues” (Reilly 56). Individuals breeds isolation and even persecution by the collective, dominant community. This conflict is illustrated in three…

The BeatlesWhen people hear the name “The Beatles” most people think of lead singer,John Lennon. However, the role ofPaul McCartney  is often overlooked. It wasMcCartney, not Lennon who was the driving force behind the Beatles. John Lennon and Paul McCartney were in many bands together before theforming of the Beatles. In 1962, along with Ringo…

The roots of Jazz music and the blues, being intertwined with each other, are as colorful as their names, literally, because it is the music of colored people, African-American slaves, who toiled in the fields of the Southern plantations.  The blues were generally believed to be songs sang by the workers while working in the…

Tupac Shakur, in my ideas, is the best rapper there is. Tupac Amaru Shakur was born on June 16, 1971. He was born in New York. Tupac Amaru are Inca words. Tupac Amaru means a “ reflecting serpent. ” Shakur means “ grateful to God, ” and that came from the Arabic linguistic communication. When…

Love is “an intense feeling of attraction”. This is how Webster’s Dictionary defines love. It is much more complicated than that though, or maybe we just make it out to be more complicated, either way it’s hard to explain. A few words that characterize love for me are sacrifice, safe, comfortable, commitment, selfless, trust, and…

The name? Tupac Shakur? is familiar with everyone. He was most remembered for his enormous impact on the blame music industry. Tupac died on September 13, 1996 over a alleged? West Coast, East Coast Rivalry. ? Not merely did Tupac Shakur talk his head in his vocals, but besides in his interviews and public visual…