Andy Beck's Song 'The Moon'

Since the moon is the polar opposite of the sun we can say that, in the human element of the story there is Grandma Luna which is currently at the ending of her “moon life” and at the beginning of her rebirth towards a new day as the “sun”, the light bulb, as a symbol of rebirth representing the sun, appears one more time in the story, where in the wake of her Grandmothers death, the narrator is watching the moths “fluttering to light”, carrying her Grandmother’s soul to a place were it can become reborn. I believe that the author’s carefully chosen name of “Luna” for the Grandmother was in fact to show the reader that our death is inevitable but our rebirth in terms of happiness is changeable.

La Vie En Rose was originally written and recorded in France, because of this the song is filled with romantic styles. When Louis Armstrong recorded the song, many aspects were left the same but more trumpets were added to increase the Armstrong’s influence. The song starts with the piano and through the song trombones, saxophone, guitars, bass, and drums are added to create a homophonic texture. As Louis Armstrong is known for his trumpet playing skills, the trumpet plays a key role in this song. As these instruments blend together, a 4/4 rhythm, with accents placed on 1 and 3 is created, this rhythm along with a lento tempo creates a calming, romantic sound. The melody follows this style to become light and simple. The harmony in

The visual’s background is formed by a dark and starry night sky; stretching across the image and transitioning into a sunny day sky. This is a representation of the passage of time, life, death, and the power of memories. The nighttime depicts ageing and adulthood, whereas the daytime represents youth and life. In the poem, the narrator describes the sky, ‘Ambiguous night, ambiguous sky,’ which is symbolic for the transience between adulthood and childhood. An ambiguous sky is a sky which is unclear or undecided. The faded transition from the night sky to the day sky reflects this notion and the uncertainty of memories; displaying how the poem

The song, “Mr. Blue Sky,” by the Electric Light Orchestra, is about how the writer, Jeff Lynne, was not able to think of anything for a song for two weeks. Then, Lynne conquered the darkness he was in and wrote a great deal of songs. This song could also mean that when we are in tough times, we should look forward to the great times, and when they come, we need to celebrate. In the song, Electric Light Orchestra repeatedly mentions celebration of Mr. Blue Sky, or the sky, through a great deal of personification, a literary device.

Michael Story was born on April 27, 1956 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Michael Story was a graduate from University of Houston. Where he earned his bachelor and master degrees in Music Education. He was the assistant director of the UH’s marching band under the guidance of the director Dr. William Moffit. Mr.Story is a full time writer for Alfred Music Publishing. He also has more than 1,200 compositions and 1,200 arrangements for concert band, marching band, jazz ensemble and orchestra.

"Misirlou" (meaning Egyptian Girl) initially a traditional song from the Eastern Mediterranean region was recorded earliest in 1919 as an Egyptian composition called “Bint Misr”. Other versions of Misirlou were made in Arabic, Jewish, Armenian and Turkish.

Andy McKee is an award-winning fingerstyle guitarist with adept, technically proficient skills and whose playing touches upon bluegrass, progressive rock, and classical music. Though recognized as a growing talent in the fingerstyle guitar community since the early 2000s, McKee achieved even greater prominence in 2005 after the video for his song "Drifting" went viral.

In Craig Morgan’s song, “Being Alive and Livin,” he sings “I ain’t a guy to just kick back, and watch bikes race around the track, I’m white knuckled to the handle bars with both my hands. No, I ain’t one to just stand around, while a parachute falls to the ground, I gotta be hanging underneath when it lands. I’m not a wonder what it feels like kind of man.” He continues in the second verse, “... I ain’t gonna get to my rockin’ chair, scratchin’ a head full of silver hair and look back on a bunch of things I wished I did, I’m gonna meet my maker with an empty bucket list.” As his lyrics portray, he is saying that instead of sitting back, he wants to live his life to the best of his ability- he wants to find meaning.

The song “Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin is appropriate to the situations and characters in the book, because on the eighth Tuesday Morrie talks about material items and how people are trying to substitute love and friendship with the material items. In the song the first line is, “There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold, And she's buying a stairway to heaven,” the interpretation of this is that the lady is buying her way into heaven and wants all the things she can get, because she believes all material items are gold. The lady is taking everything and not giving any, which leads to her believing she has to buy a stairway to heaven. Although, the only way to heaven is to give all that you can and say thank you for when you

The song Girls Just Want To Have Fun came out in 1979, originally written and recorded by Robert Hazard. He wrote the lyrics from the perspective of a guy. In 1983, Cyndi changed the lyrics and put it into a more feminist anthem. (“Omg facts”) Girls Just Want To Have Fun was Cyndi Lauper’s first hit. After the song came out, Cyndi made an album called She Is So Unusual. The album released on October 14, 1983, six months after her first hit. Over the years, Cyndi had sold over 50 million albums worldwide. (“Cyndi Lauper Wikipedia”) Her songs are still very popular today! Mostly every song Cyndi made was a hit, including Time After Time, True Colors, and She Bop. (Song Facts) The reason I picked this song, is because I love Cyndi

Science Fiction In Space Oddity: From David Bowie’s Core of Creation to His Tool of Theatrical Performance Bowie released the song “Space Oddity”, one of his most popular and representative songs, twice. The first version was coincidentally released five days prior to the Apollo 11 landing in 1969 and the second version was released in his famous album “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars” in 1972. The first version of this song, together with its music video, tells a tragic story of a fictitious character called Major Tom who is an astronaut flying into space and who eventually gets lost in space. Noticeably, David Bowie acts as dual-roles, both Ground Control and Major Tom.

The symbols moon, sleep and night are linked to each other because when it’s nighttime, the characters in Midsummer night’s dream go to sleep. And when they sleep, they have dreams and nightmares. Throughout the play, the moon is used to mark the passage of time. For example, the two lovers from Pyramus and Thisbe agree that by moonlight that they'll meet at Ninus's tomb.

William Least Heat-Moon’s “From Blue Highways” portrays the solution to Heat-Moon’s mid-life crisis, making the story’s primary purpose self-expression. Heat-Moon’s journey to find out more about the town Nameless teaches him valuable life lessons that have the potential to help him out of his mid-life crisis. On the road to Nameless, Heat-Moon encounters a factory worker who farms to remember the humble past. Heat-Moon asks if the factory worker ever “‘wish[es] it was still the old way’” to which the wise worker lists the satisfactions of his new life, topping it off with “‘if you’re satisfied, that’s all they are to it’” (Heat-Moon 1060). The factory worker understands that although the past is often a delightful place to live, only the future

One example of the devices they used to influence the emphasis the song makes is the rhyme scheme AAAA used in order to give a smooth transition to every line in the song. This gives the feeling of a smooth transition into different chapters in the movie instead of having an alternating rhyme scheme that would rather make the song feel unconnected and as if the song misses key points before describing the next chapter. Another example is the heavy use of symbolism throughout the song. In the beginning, the dying swan is a reference to an inevitable fate that the female sees coming for her relationship. In the second version, the lyrics imply that the male character is better off without her by contrasting the word light to mean the male and darkness to represent the female.

There has been a lot of covers of the song, Joan Jett is one of the artist who received the most praise for her rendition of the song. Her version was not as power as Lesley’s however because at the time Joan sung the song the woman where well aware that men had no claim over them and that they were free to be on their