Music Essays

Coldplay’s Success Through a Digital Landscape
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Introduction: A Sky Full of Technology It comes as no surprise that the music industry is changing with both digital technology and media. The way an audience consumes and experiences music is changin...

African American Music and the NWA
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Introduction:         African American musicians have used music as a way make their voice heard and spread the message of the ongoing civil rights movement. One of the ...

Biography of The Monkees
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Introduction:  American rock and pop music have been classic examples of the most popular music genres in the country, since time immemorial. Growing up to a background that has significantly high regard ...

Evaluation of Bohemian Rhapsody
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Introduction: Of Singer’s and Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsodies: A Bohemian Rhapsody to honour a Bohemian’s Rhapsody On the 24th of October 2018, scores of Queen fans flocked to the cinema...

Music as Part of Social Movements
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Introduction: Amandla!  Music has shaped culture in all parts of the world, in many ways. I believe that the tradition of music is already there, and it helped the African resistance movement. We...

History and Technological Development of the Piano
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Introduction: Introduction The piano is a musical instrument played with a keyboard. It is among one of the most common and popular instruments in the world because it has been widely used in society....

Analytical Paper for “Started From the Bottom” by Drake
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Introduction: Introduction Drake, who was labeled by Jay Z as the Kobe Bryant of hip-hop, is one of the most popular and influential hip-hop rappers. Drake grew up with a multi-culture background,...

Music Consumption in the Dominican Republic
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Introduction: Introduction   In the last three decades, technology has changed how people consume media and more specific music since these advances are making a significant shift in its...

Differences between French and Italian Operas in the 17th and 18th Century
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Introduction: There are many different countries where Baroque Opera thrived however, two of the main countries that proved vital for the development of baroque opera, were Italy and France. At around 1650, op...

Tina Turner’s Comeback Album: Private Dancer
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Introduction: Or “personal liberation and sonic redemption” (Slant Magazine, March 5, 2012) Tina Turner was born as Anna Mae Bullock in Nut Bush, Tennessee, US in 1939. She was the youngest daught...

Gender Roles in Rap Music: Evaluation of Lil Wayne
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Introduction: After a semester of analyzing different gender works and authors, I will be using my knowledge to analyze how gender plays a role in the works of American rapper Dwayne Carter Jr. (also known as ...

Musical and Cultural Impacts of Metallica
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Introduction: One of the most influential bands in contemporary music is considered to be the Metallica which managed not only to provide the new sound in heavy metal but also contribute to the cultural phenom...

Biography and Music of Johnny Cash
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Introduction: The 1929 crash of the Wall Street stock market caused the most devastating economic depression in U.S. History, and rural America was among the hardest hit. A poor Southern Baptist sharecropping ...

Analysis of Monteverdi’s “L’Incoronazione Di Poppea”
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Introduction: Though Western music is not alone amongst world’s music that was being written down, the idea that the music score itself takes a place of priority in this tradition is somewhat unique. Yet, it...

Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 in E Minor 'From the New World'
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Introduction: Primary Source Project Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 in E minor “From the New World,” written in 1893, stands to be one of the most popular and influential symphonies of all time...

Impact of Top of the Pops on TV, Culture and Music
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Introduction: Top of the Pops (BBC, 1964-2006), a show only intended to last for six weeks, became the major and most successful pop music programme on British Television (Fryer, 1997) (Donnelly, 2004). This 4...

Importance of the Mozart Effect in Child Development
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Introduction: Biography From about five years old I was involved in some type of music activity at the St. Croix SDA School, which at the time was a bells chorale and recorder ensemble. I was also qui...

Biography of Ludwig van Beethoven
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Introduction: Ludwig van Beethoven was a German pianist and composer in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic ages of Western music. Ludwig was born in the city of Bonn, Germany on Decembe...

Development of Hafez Modirzadeh's Music
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Introduction: Jazz Musicians Hafez Modirzadeh is an American jazz saxophonist and composer. The father was from Iran, hence Modirzadeh came up with the intricacies of Persian “radif”, which is the...

Developments in the Baroque Era
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Introduction:  The Baroque Era brought forth many changes to the way musicians compose their music. Compositions were written not only to depict specific emotions but also to arouse them in the listener. ...

Constructions of Authenticity in Hip-Hop Music
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Introduction: The question I will address in my paper is authenticity and the various ways in which authenticity is constructed in hip hop. This essay will argue that the role of hip hop beef is to question an...

The Life of Bob Marley: The Man, The Religion, and The Music
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Introduction: Abstract Bob Marley and the Wailers was a group that started during a time where people were looking for something to believe. Marley, conceived by a white man and raised by a black woma...

History of Music Therapy and its Applications
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Introduction: It improves the mental capacity of children, reduces physical and mental pain and restores the body and mind. Half an hour of it even has the same effect as a 10mg tablet of Valium. “What is th...

Characteristics of the Renaissance and Baroque Periods
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Introduction:  Music is a form of expression that has changed over time with the discovery and formation of different techniques and characteristics across the eras. The Renaissance and the Baroque period...

Biography of George Gershwin
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Introduction: George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist; considered as one of the most significant American composers of the 20th century, known for popular stage and screen numbers a...