What Is The Theme Of Sleeping Beauty By Lana Del Rey

“On Broadway, although some female roles are narrow, demeaning, passive, or long-suffering and convey weakness, the performer sings with incredible strength. Listening to the female singing voice is a more complicated phenomenon. Visually, the character singing is the passive object of our gaze. But aurally, she is resonant; her musical speech drowns out everything in range. A singer, more than any other musical performer, stands before us having wrested the composing voice away from the lyricist and composer who wrote the score.” Said Musicologist Carolyn Abbate (Wolf, p.31)

For the final presentation for this course, I am going to analyze one of my favorite songs, Ave Maria by Josquin des Prez. Each year around this time, my parents always took me to an ensemble shows in my town and this song was always one of the most popular songs. There are many different versions of Ave Maria by various composers in different timeline. However, I personally favor Josquin’s version of Ave Maria the most because this piece gives the vibe of Mary I always thought of; calm, bright, and magnificent rather than slow and intimidating vibe that few other Ave Maria by different composers gives. Also, I recommended this piece to my choir teacher and we sang this piece in a competition; it includes all four spectrum of soprano, alto,

Women’s music came from radical, grassroots origins in the 1970s thanks to contributions by brave women, mostly lesbians (Mosbacher, 2002). These women used non-violent, peaceful force to forge their own way into the music industry. It was a peaceful yet political revolution of togetherness and liberation. It brought together women of different backgrounds who produced easy-listening, mellow harmonies played with lyrics filled with tumultuous

This song displays the traditional messages sent by male artists. What about female artists? What do their songs portray? Andsager and Roe’s findings give a good description. According to them, there are two kinds of female artists. The strong, more established female artists portray women as “fully equal.” These women are in their thirties at least, they are more established, and they dress in casual suits. They sang romance, female emancipation, and heartbreak like the rest, but they did not compromise their image in their videos. They use Trisha Yearwood as an example in her song Everybody Knows. The other type, were women who “fell into the lowest level on the consciousness scale.” They used Deana Carter’s song We Danced Anyway as an example. In this song she rolled on the beach in a wet t-shirt. Another one is Faith Hill’s song Breathe. In this song, Hill is seen rolling around in her bed sheets with no clothes on.

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Ella Fitzgerald is known as the “First Lady of Song,” and for good reason. Throughout her career, Fitzgerald took jazz singing to new heights of fame and popularity, influencing the style of jazz and future generations of musicians. Today, her music remains well-known and loved, and her long and prolific career reflects her impeccable skill and style. Her influence is still strong today, with singers such as Adele, Mica Paris, Lady Gaga, and Lana Del Rey (BBC) citing Fitzgerald as a major influence on their style and their love of music. Fitzgerald is often referred to as one of the greatest jazz vocalists, along with Billie Holiday. However, Fitzgerald’s style was not dominated by the typical approach to jazz singing, instead being

Someone who is revolutionary is never forgotten and Selena Quintanilla’s legacy thrives as though as she’s still alive.We all know who Selena was, a young, talented Mexican-American woman who was transformative and let’s not forget about Jennifer Lopez portraying her in the movie “ Selena”. She was a cutting edge singer that broke the standard ways of Tejano. Today pop culture performers resemble her style and some even say she was a huge inspiration for them."I think she is a legend and I admire her. She was so talented. Even though she didn't know who I was… I was still so excited that I got the opportunity!"( Beyonce). Her career began as a child and from there she blossomed into a woman that would change the music scene forever. An amazing human being was taken from this world way too soon, but she was an unforgettable talent that had accepted who she was, and represented

On the eve of November 23rd 2015, I interviewed my grandfather, Benny Reno Emerson, on the influence of music in his life. During the interview we talked about how long music has been a part of his life and how it has shaped who he is today. We also touched on three songs that meant the most to him. The three songs that he claimed to be the most significant to him were “K.T.”, “Kill the Pain”, and “I’m a girl watcher”; all songs that he has performed live, at stages across the Midwest, including the well know Wisconsin summer musical festival Summer Fest.

Who could have seen that a young Texas boy growing up in poverty would write and record a song heard by millions of music lovers throughout the world? “Sugartime” has been covered by hundreds of artists worldwide and has been performed by churches, commercials, plays, musicals and purely loving individuals recapturing a simpler time in music history. There are currently dozens if not hundreds of renditions of “Sugartime” posted on the World Wide Web easily viewed on YouTube. Some are brilliant and others are comical. Charlie finds many of these versions exciting, as he’s happy to see so many people, especially young folks, taking an interest in his song decades after the original was released.

Each woman’s experience plays a different note that completes a beautiful melody and through their voice you see the essence of a woman.

The way artists cover songs today is very different than the way they were done in the mid nineteen hundreds. Today if a band covers a song it will typically be from a while ago. A performer like Miley Cyrus would not cover “Take Me To Church” by Hozier. Even if she were to perform the song people would be confused as to why she is playing Hozier’s song so close to when Hozier came out with the song. And when someone covers another bands song, it will still sound similar to the original. They will keep the same lyrics, but change the key or rhythm. In the mid nineteen hundreds, anybody could cover another bands song, but it would sound completely different. In many cases the artist would even change the lyrics to a point where it does

Little Brier Rose is very similar to Sleeping Beauty because a King and Queen have a girl and hold a celebration for her birth. But instead of Maleficent cursing sleeping beauty like in the Disney version, in Little Brier Rose the angry 13th fairy does. The two versions have the same concept with fairies granting gifts upon sleeping beauty except for Disney only has three faries and the other version have thirteen. Almost the exact thing happens in the two stories after the curse, the last fairy who can grant the princesse a gift, gifts that Sleeping Beauty will awake from her sleep by a true love's kiss. After the curse in the Disney version the fairies take Sleeping Beauty away to live in a cottage, but Sleeping Beauty stays in her castle

Pulling the time back to the present, the once kiddie protégé has emerged to be more promising than ever as Sophia Grace, now 13 is setting foot to the world of music – and this time playing it seriously. Proving that she’s more than just the covers songs she has done in the past, this teenager sends a message that she can make an original track equally as popular.

The origin of “Sleeping Beauty” goes back centuries. There are many versions of the story and all of them are slightly different from the other. They each tell a tale of a beautiful girl cursed to sleep for a hundred years. All around the world they’ve made their own adaptation of the original story as far as Italy, Germany and India.

Within the album Born to Die, there are several songs with lyrics that display a meaning which defeats the purpose of what radical feminists are attempting to achieve in todays day and age. The lyrics on Lana Del Rey's album present self destructive behaviour which shows a lack of self respect. In the song God's and Monsters, Del Rey sings the lyrics “No one's gonna take my soul away, I'm living like Jim Morrison, headed towards a fucked up holiday, motel spree spree's and I'm singing, fuck yeah give it to me this is heaven what I truly want, it's innocence lost.” This is a display of a lack of self respect and therefore gives men the idea that they can disrespect women, and use them for sexual pleasure. The man she refers to, Jim Morrison, was a famous celebrity who died due to a drug overdose. He