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With all of the problems we experience daily and hear about throughout the world, it would appear that humanity is falling apart; that the values of peace, love, and equality, among others, are no longer relevant. In 2003, the Black Eyed Peas released their lead single from the album Elephunk entitled “Where is the Love?”. This song became popular for it inspirational lyrics and its uplifting and “funkafied” beat. The song starts out with two guitars and a bass line that induce a soft and…

Edwin Gordon is one of the several influential educators in the music education field. Gordon is well known as a researcher, educator, and creator of the music learning theory. He has also made important contributions to the field of music education by creating music aptitude testing that can be used in the classroom for all ages. Gordon began is education career as a string bass performance major at Eastman School of Music where he received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees. After graduating…

Though they are both very different, the songs “Hooked on a Feeling” by Blue Swede and “A Quick Exit” by Darren Mitchell can be broken down into their musical elements and easily compared. The elements that are most apparent in these two songs are rhythm, melody, harmony, and dynamics. Both pieces use these same elements, but in different ways, which produce the different songs that we hear. Also since these songs are different genres, there will be distinct differences between how they convey…

One of the ways in which Holmes expresses his care for the Doctor is through his sole medium of emotional expressions -- by playing his violin. While there is little information in Watsons’ accounts regarding the emotional states of the detective (with the exception of his excitement over a new puzzle and the following bouts of saturnine moods when there are no cases to be solved), we can see that the detective often turns to his violin when pondering upon a case, or even when relaxing. Holmes’…

Since I barely have the music sense, listening and writing about jazz music was my biggest headache from the beginning of class. It is hard to use words to describe wordless music that is being heard. Yet I still learned the origin and the evolution of jazz music, its African American background and the different style it changes into. The videos playing in the class were useful to better understand the jazz music: by going over Billy Taylor’s What Is Jazz, I realized the composition of a jazz…

On Thursday, April 19. 2016 at 7:00 Pm a Junior Music Recital was held at Barry University in the Cor Jesu Chapel. Performers were Leonell Figeredo, Yanessa Morillo-Delerme, Travis Hogue, Evan Post, Beverly Coulter, Daniel Daroca and two unknown females. Dr. Coulter and Mr. Daroca played the piano. The space was large. 45 people were seated in the chapel. The piano was placed at the front of the room to the left of the persons seated. People were also seated to the side of the room. There was a…

The way that I feel that this piece is compared to other keyboard works what we have listen to was that you can tell that mostly its homophonic like most of the other piano pieces that I have heard. You can hear a soft dynamic mood like Beethoven work. You can hear how freely it feels by the sounds so you know they put their soul into it and was being creative. What I think is different is that the piano piece is in a mazurka with a rubato unlike the other pieces. This piano piece also is…

All three of these pieces are something that is completely different, but they all have one thing in common, music. The Fanfare for the Common Man and Adagio for Strings is something I have heard a few times here or there, whether it was in movies or even in music class whenever I was younger. The Drum Corps International 2014 was a collaboration of multiple drum corps from all over that displayed the show at a competition. Analyzing each element of these videos really made me realize how much I…

2 Concepts of Music used in the song "Livin' On A Prayer" by Bon Jovi Dynamics and General Overview This song is written in E minor. At the start of the song without vocals (0:00-0:22) the sound is at a low dynamic, there is little sound. There is a faint sound of an organ, which is only playing one continuous note. Then an electric guitar and castanet comes in a bit later, slightly louder. At 0:23 the sound is louder. There is someone cupping their mouth over the microphone with added effects…

Music is the voice to our ears which people often say. What makes songs different from one another are the beats, flows, melody and most importantly the artist. There are many types of genre like Hip-Hop, R&B, Oldies, Blues, Alternative, reggae, yeah you get the point the list goes on and on. Well, each song you listen to takes you back and remembering those memories you’ve forgotten. Hearing the tone in the artist voice, the lyrics to the song and how they are feeling has us feeling the exact…