Music Analysis Nina Lee

Most audiences view music as a form of entertainment only, so society tends to overlook the messages behind the music. Some artists use music to promote their beliefs or inform their listeners about unnoticed issues. Music can spread awareness about misfortunes in the world, and Martina McBride uses her celebrity status to promote her own concerns about child abuse. In 2002, Martina McBride recorded a song titled “Concrete Angel” to spread awareness about child abuse. Her song addresses the general population, consisting of bystanders, because most people are aware of tragedies such as child abuse, but they ignore the problem. Through emotional appeals, characterization, imagery, and foreshadowing, “Concrete Angel” illustrates the story of a young girl’s abuse in order to call the bystanders to awareness of the societal problem.

Martha and the Vandellas was a female vocal group and one of the first groups signed by Motown Records. Big in the 1960’s and 1970’s, they were probably best known for their song “Dancing in the Street” which has been covered by numerous artists since. Though one of their less popular songs, “I Should Be Proud”, stands out to this day as an anti-war song which voiced a disagreement with the war- particularly regarding civil rights issues at the time.

In the first movement the ideas, themes and melodies, one after the other is presented without ceasing to remain lucid and clearly for the listener. And, despite the reduced orchestration (strings accompanied only by oboes and horns), the sound is rich and complete. The orchestra and the piano are in two different meters, at the same moment that both are playing. The orchestra is seems to be in 2/2, while the piano was playing in 4/4.

According to former president William McKinley, "The mission of the United Sates is one of benevolent assimilation." It has been widely known that people who don’t fit in (culturally or physically), well, won’t fit in until they are "normal," or assimilated into Western culture. There are examples of this in everyday life, such as if a person with an Asian accent is introduced to a group with an English accent, he or she will most likely be regarded as different, and will be excluded from interaction with the rest of the group. But, if the person slowly changes their accent to become part of the norm, then the person will become

The work is identified as having a tonal centre of and ends with final cadence with C major chord. This creates a straightforward and warm feeling that will match well with the beating pattern. The tempo of the work is marked as briskly, which indicates that the work would be quick and active. This tempo lays a foundation for therapists to form a lively atmosphere while playing the piece. The composers used 2/4 beat for the rhythm of the song. This allowed the piece to be rich in both musical melody and rhythm; there is no a sense of dragging in the piece and every beat is simple and easy to follow.

It was the year 1929, and the oldest discovered piece of ancient sheet music was inscribed on a stone tablet unearthed in a Hurrian ruin near Lake Van, Turkey. The lyre piece, translated from Hurrian as “Princess Atyah’s Song” was then transcribed and interpreted by modern string aficionado Michael E. Levy into a contemporary rendition at an Ancient History symposium in Chicago. It was perhaps an ill-fated decision, to take something filled with some much sacred potential, and bring it into the modern realm without abandon. Levy performed the piece in front of an audience of a baker’s dozen archaeologists and music historians in a small rented venue nearby the symposium’s main venue. The next night, everyone that had been in attendance

We recorded two different styles on the song “All Through the Night” and the results were surprising. In my opinion the first style was much more like my talking voice and laid back. From the recording, it was very blurry. I could barely hear what I was singing it was more like mumbling the words out loud. I also felt that the tone wasn’t projecting out and was buried in the piano accompaniment. The second style was much more awkward to sing but it was projecting. I could actually hear the lyrics and surprisingly all the worlds were clear. I love how the voice floats above the piano accompaniment. By listening to the recording over and over again, I prefer the second style over the first style because it requires small amount of mouth movement

Rhythm and Blues (R & B) has always been my priority choice of music to listen to. “R. Kelly is talented and he is also inarguable the biggest male R & B singer since Marvin Gaye”. (Marchese) He is a musical genius who wrote “Forever” a very powerful and unforgettable wedding song that will be played during many marriage ceremonies for years to come. Forever is a nuptial song that sounds great for a bride walking out to meet her husband at the altar. R Kelly Lyrics reminds me of what my husband said the day he asked me to marry him “I will be your man you will be my lady, we'll walk hand and hand side by side, I will be the perfect groom you're the perfect bride”. (R. Kelly: Forever) This song “Forever” symbolizes our married on New Years’

I chose the song “She used to be mine” by Sara Bareilles, because it describes many people in this world. When the song states, “ She's imperfect, but she tries,” this means that even though she is not perfect, she at least tries. I believe that nobody's perfect, but especially me. I am most certainly not perfect at all, but I atleast try my best. This song describes many people all around this world.

Vivaldi's “winter” one of the amazing parts to Vivaldi's work of art known as Four Seasons does an outstanding job showing the poetry through the music. He starts off from the very beginning of the piece with teeth chattering. If you were to take a look at the poem he is referring to the very first line is “Frozen and trembling among the chilly snow”. Vivaldi demonstrates these actions by using fierce, fast, and high pitched sounds all throughout the piece. He then continues to demonstrate the second line around the one minute and thirty second mark by using a violin to demonstrate the “Horrid Winds’ (line 2 Stanza 1).

Since she started making music in 2010, Claire Boucher’s Grimes project has made some of the oddest pop music imaginable, and since she started making music in 2010, the music has only increased in quality. From 2010′s three lo-fi, darker projects of Darkbloom, Halfaxa, and Geidi Primes, to 2012′s ethereal Visions, to her recent singles, last year’s trap-influenced “Go” and this year’s moody synthpop jam “REALiTi (Demo)”, Boucher seems to have been slowly moving towards a mainstream pop presence, if only on the periphery. Art Angels is the newest progression towards this goal, lying closest to the center - it seems to be Boucher’s least experimental record thus far, if only conceptually. This change has been met with varying degrees of

The operatic section ends with “Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me”, sung with the “full” chorus, actually just multitracked vocals from Mercury, May and Taylor, the final note is sung by Taylor and is Bb5, sung in falsetto, consequently ending the operatic section, and moving onto the hard rock

This piece begins with a four-bar introduction played by the low brass and timpani. This part consists of a highly-articulated, staccato two-bar ostinato. As one would expect from a march, this piece is in duple meter. A pickup by the trumpets leads into the A melody (0:07) . During this section, the trumpets play the melody in monophony while the low brass and timpani continue their ostinato. It then becomes apparent that this song is in a major key. After six bars, where extra brass is added under the trumpets to give the melody harmony (0:18). This two-bar part becomes the climax of this section, as this is where the melodic shape hits its peak. The 8-bar A melody is then repeated a second time, but with high woodwinds joining the low brass and timpani ostinato (0:22). The rest of the section is otherwise played the same as the previous repetition, with the woodwinds sharing the trumpets’ melody in the last two bars (0:33).

Playing the music is really a very inspiring activity. Music is composed of many different symbols. The basic symbols include the clefs, the staff, and the notes. For playing the music, it is important to know the beat that is used during clapping, dancing, or tapping the foot together with a song. After that you must know how to play the melody. All music contains these fundamental components, and in order to learn how to read music, you must first familiarize yourself with these basics. It is recommended for every learner to download the free tools of the music for making your musical journey easy. With the help of such tools, it is possible to start practice of playing the music.

The first Movement: Poco sostenuto - Vivace (A major): It's in sonata form. A slow introduction of large dimensions, precedes the first time, which fixes the luminous and rustic nature of the work. There are contrasts of timbres and abrupt harmonic modulations. This movement have confusing wave of ascending scales, with the usual preparatory character, from which emerges only a beautiful melody of the oboe, a kind of slow march in "C major", which could be described as idyllic if the virtue of rhythm did not exist. . The dominant tone is hammered repeatedly, first with equal rhythmic values, then - almost standing out one note to the other, the jumping division of the rhythm is in compound double.