Music Analysis: Pop Music

This is a very lyrical poem. The speaker's emotions and intentions are made very clear in very inconspicuous ways. The subtle repetition of certain words and images give the poem a very distinct tone. For example, the repetition of the words

For a rock song, one would believe a guitar solo would be powerful and dramatic. However, in this song the guitar solo is the complete opposite, it is distant and not strong. The humor comes from the songs arrangement. Humor is used in the intentional realm. For example, in D’Yer Mak’Er it was the artist’s intention to convey humor.

The artist chooses an upbeat and happy tempo that repeats throughout the song. He chooses this repeating tempo to draw the listener’s attention to the lyrics of the song. The slow, yet happy tempo paired with the artists bright and cheery voice creates a sense of ease and happiness within the song itself, and the audience.

This song is a hard a song for students to learn as a it has a variety of different

In addition, they also question the faith and actions of the world. The choirs of the song: “Father, Father, Father help us/Send some guidance from above/People got me, got me questionin'/ Where is the love (Love)/ ….Where is the love/The love, the love?” (lines 23-31) they tie in social institutions and agents of socialization. Above all they are focusing on one social institution which is religion. The song

It sounds like a poet is expressing himself to a crowd, which you can hear in the background with noises of laughter or agreement to the poet’s words. At 20:21 minutes in the CD the crowd starts clapping in awe of the poem and the track ends. Hasta Siempre, Comandante (Song for Che Guevara) is track six on the CD, it starts off with a slow tempo and soft voices in the background, almost as if you were outside, around a group of older men. It then accelerates to a type of tone that hints off a sad scenario in the lyrics. You can hear a membranophone in the background alongside a chordophone. The song La OEA, Me Causa Risa (The OAS Makes Me Laugh) has the vocalists literally laugh to the beat which sounds happy and up-beat. I hear an idiophone and a chordophone. At the end of the song the men laugh outside of the tempo and in a way that frightens a little bit. The song on track eight is named Coplas del Pajarito (The Little Bird’s Complaint), and it starts of by gradually speeding up the tempo. You can hear the song speed up between each stroke made on the chordophone being used. The singer sounds nasally with a quick vibrato in his voice at the end of certain words. The song Porque los Pobres no Tienen (Because the Poor Have Nothing) there is a woman singing with a warm voice along to a slow tempo. There is thump in the background, which means there is an idiophone being used alongside a guitar. The song Me Gustan los Estudiantes (I Love the Students) has a very clear

This, along with a large amount of enjambment makes the poem flow easily. It seems like it is a few longs lines, rather than five stanzas! When you read the poem aloud the sound makes you think of waves in the sea, going back and forth. In the first stanza, there is a lot of sibilance – repeating of the sound “s”. This sounds a lot like the waves.

As for the melody of the song, most of the verses ends up falling within the same pitch but ends up rising in pitch near the last few words through a combination of melodic steps in the beginning and leaps by the end. The melodic shape of the verse helps to emphasize a nostalgic mood by representing how the singer ends up becoming happier as he remembers the past that he loves. During the middle-8, the lines begin higher but end up lowering near the end. The melodic shape of the middle-8 helps to bring the mood back from being in love (higher pitches) to being realistic (lower pitches). The guitar riff also moves upward in steps and leaps. The instrumental guitar riff also has a very similar rhythmic pattern as the middle-8. The overall meter, melody, and rhythm help to convey a sense of authenticity in its emotions towards life and his lover through the presence of a constant pitch that subtly rises with emotions of nostalgia or

The song starts off with two measures of just drums and claps, which establishes the beat that is heard through the entire song. Then as soon as lyrics of the pre-verse and the verse are introduced the texture is instantly homophonic, with the upper half of the piano playing the melody and the lower half playing the bass. After the first verse, the chorus introduces the guitar which aids in carrying the bass notes. Amongst all that there is a presence of a violin within the second pre-verse and chorus and then at the end which gives the texture a polyphonic sound.

The song "The message" by Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five depicts the struggle of young black adults growing up in society. The struggle to make it out of poverty can be compared to survival of the fittest in a jungle. Only the strong would survive and adapt to the changes to fit in. Trying their best to make a betterment with whatever little society offers. Being a young black African American in the early 1980's was not easy. It was easier to live the fast life and gain fast money by being part of the drug community. Drugs, guns, and money was glamorized and this is what the young adults looked at as a means of getting rich. In the songs, a young man talks about how he is trying hard to hold on to the little bit of sanity he has left in his soul. He talks about the struggle he endures while trying not to get pushed over the edge. He was born an innocent child who's blind to the ways of mind kind. Growing up he faced many challenges and had to fight

Typically, a song consists of several verses, and the rhyme scheme and rhythm are usually the same from verse to verse. •Chorus—A song's refrain (verse that repeats itself at given intervals throughout the song). •Bridge—Transitional passage connecting two

He utilized music to portray the emotions using harmonic and technical elements. He chose to write the song, going the more untraditional route, with simplicity. It is in the genre of classical French. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOxJpPiFe0kThe song begins quietly and gently with single notes being played. Seeming to use the same

The song starts out with the voices coming in and fading out. There are two different parts they sing then they come back together. Then, they hit a higher note and return to the same dueling parts. The balance between the voices is what really makes the song amazing and sound so smooth. Then one voice comes in singing a solo for a bit then the other sings a solo. So, it really feel like the voices are dueling against

The poem contains six quatrains, and does not follow any consistent rhyme scheme. Every line starts with a strong beat and ends up with a weak beat. The first and third lines in each stanza have iambic tetrameter, but the second and fourth lines do not contain any consistent meter. The feet generate a rhythm

This is however broken at the end of this verse as there is one bar added. Harmonically to do this the final verse chord is turned into a V/IV allowing the chordal structure to smoothly transition from verse to bridge.