Set It Off: Music Analysis

The Album starts off with a song of the same name, “What’s Going On”, the most popular

The Sound of Music is an old tale that ran its first show in 1959. This play was shown at the Belk Theater at the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center. It included two acts with a twenty minutes intermission between the two acts. The Sound of Music is a musical that has music by Richard Rodgers. The play follows Maria von Trapp’s life, it starts with her life at an Abbey trying to join the monastic life. The nuns from the Abbey do not feel that she is quite ready for the monastic life because of how much she likes to sing. There are strict rules that each person must follow in the Abbey. The nuns tell Maria that she is going to become a governess for the von Trapp family. The play then goes to show the relationships that Maria forms with the children and the Captain. The Captain is not home very often, but one time he is he brings home, Elsa and Max. Elsa is planned to be the Captain’s new wife, however, that is not what ends up happening. Maria and the Captain get married and the play ends with the family fleeing from the Nazi. This play is based on a memoir of Maria. Although the play is based on Maria’s life there were some events that did not occur in Maria’s life that is in the play. For instance, the family didn’t actually flee Nazi oppression right after the annexation of Austria; rather they relocated to the United States in the 1940s.

Music in The Music Man Music is an element that can modify the atmosphere of anything. Whether it is in a movie, a party, or in a musical, it can change the scene from melancholy to cheerful. In The Music Man by Meredith Wilson and Franklin Lacey, music is the most important element of the production as it drives the plot and changes the emotion of the audience to match what the playwright imagined. I watched this musical in the Performing Arts Center of North Royalton High School, Directed by Megan Dolar.

I chose this particular experiment to see what my mind would allow me to draw based on the way the music sounded. I thought this would be a cool experiment to see how I feel when different music is playing and how I interpret the music I hear into a drawing.

Doctor Andy Hildebrand spent 18 years in the field of seismic data exploration. He used signal processing, audio, and a mathematical model called autocorrection to map the layers below the Earth’s surface to find drilling spots for oil companies. Geophysicists, like Hildebrand, use this technology to send sound waves into the Earth and record their reflections with a geophone. Hildebrand, who was also a classically-trained flautist and had never listened to pop or rock music, realized that his equipment could also detect pitch. Thus, Auto-Tune was born (Anderson, 2013). Today, almost every recording artist relies on Auto-Tune to fix their mistakes. The real question is whether or not you have to have talent to sing anymore in this world of computerized music. In this piece I will discuss how Auto-Tune works, the history of technology in the music industry, and the controversy surrounding this technology.

Speaker Knockerz is one of the best artist I have ever heard. Speaker knockerz raps about his life and school. Speaker knockerz real name is Derek McAllister, and he lives in South Carolina. Derek became famous on youtube. Derek started making songs about his life, his first song was about his friend, which was a undercover cop. He needed to get revenge for his lost girlfriend which died because a guy killed her, and his friend got killed too. I like speaker knockerz because his song is relate to my life which is crazy and weird sometime but I would put it on if I am kind sad,but most of the time I would put it on if i have a rough time in school.

Everyday I have the blues- This song started off as an upbeat. The rhythm makes me want to get up and dance.

Three songs from the album stuck out to me—tracks two, three, and seven. More commonly known as “Omen,” “Holding On,” and “Magnets.” The first song, “Omen,” features Sam Smith while the brothers, Disclosure, provide the almost seductive keyboard track that Smith takes control of, incorporating stimulating vocals while narrating a story that conveys the analogy

The piece included a synthesizer and later on, a computer. Digital art was included in the performance. There seems to be very few components, but there was a very diverse amount of sounds performed.

The album Blonde was released on August 20 of 2016 and was debuted as being number one on the US Billboard 200. The record label of this album is called “Boys Don’t Cry” and the producers include Frank Ocean himself (Executive Producer), Buddy Ross, Francis Starlite, Pharrell Williams and many more. Similarly to his previous albums, Blonde is a mixture of R&B, psychedelic pop and soul all within an album. The lyrical melodies, abstract tunes, and gospel elements are some of the fundamentals that make up this album’s genres. While Blonde included the drums, backing vocals, and violins, the piano and guitar seem to dominate the whole album. Blonde was released four years after his latest album called Channel Orange. In this album, we can see

Sideshow does not only represent the disability of conjoined twins, this musical represents many other tropes. For example, in the cast of freaks there is a half man-half woman. This half man-half woman if shown today can cause many controversial issues because of the ongoing support and struggle for acceptance. To add, there is also an obese lady who is represented as a “freak” because of her size. With the body positivity movement I see representation as offensive and I’m sure many others can agree. It’s extremely inappropriate to put someone in a fat suit and showcase an obese person when they don't know how it feels or why they are obese because sometimes it’s a medical and genetic problem. Many tropes are used in popular culture, and in

The fact that almost half of the songs from the album have been previously heard before (some are up to two years old), coupled with the fact that they also happen to be the highlights from the record, prove quite disappointing. In an attempt to revamp the likes of “Letting Go”, “Everything She Wants” and “Young Blood” to add a refined edge for the album, the opposite seems to have taken effect. Instead of bringing a new lease of life, the songs seem to have lost their authenticity; that magical, indescribable feature appears to have been glossed over.

The Sound of Music is a musical that tells the story of a family living in Austria during the years leading up to World War II. The movie begins with Maria, a failed nun, becoming a governess to a family consisting of seven children and their widowed father. As the film develops, Maria falls in love with the kids and their father, Captain Georg von Trapp. The Captain is a decorated, retired officer of Austria’s imperial navy who strongly opposes the Nazis. Maria and the Captain eventually get married and their family forms a singing group called the von Trapp family singers. Later in the film, after the Anschluss occurs, Georg is told that he must accept a commission in the German navy, causing him and Maria to flee to Switzerland with their children.

Arcade Fire has always had a keen eye for concepts. Every record was held together neatly, by an over-arching theme, style or presentation. For their latest record, Everything Now, this Montreal-based outfit decides to go with capitalism. From Putin wearing earpieces with their logo on it, to everyday household products produced by the fictional Everything Now Co. They’ve already proven that this concept can lead to funny social media-moments, so it can also definitely result in great music.

Genius is a music website for contributing meaningful and insightful knowledge on the explanation of various texts (eg. music, literature, news, etc). You share your thoughts on texts by highlighting the text and writing inferences and observations you perceived while reading the text. Others can gain insight on the meaning of different texts. For example, if I search the song, “Primadonna” on Genius, I have the option of selecting one of the texts on the list of songs that it provides in the search results. I select the song, and I can look at other’s annotations to gain knowledge on what is occurring or the deeper meaning of the text. Additionally, you can also add song, artist or album facts. This