The Day the Music Died

nominated for 13 Grammy’s and won 1 in February of 2017. Dave Mustaine, a young California boy with a dream to rule the world with hard and aggressive music. David Scott Mustaine was born in La Mesa California on September 13th, 1961 to John and Emily Mustaine. In his early days, Dave had a deep love for rock music and started playing the guitar. One day, Dave was playing his guitar in his room and his sister came in the room and smashed the guitar over Dave’s head because he was playing poorly.…

Even though, the Baroque period, dating from 1600 to 1750 was centuries ago, the music and the composers of the period are relevant and prominent still today. Per the Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Johann Sebastian Bach was, “One of the greatest and most influential composers of the Western world” (“Johann Sebastian Bach”) Although, Bach was not recognized in his time as a great composer, he most definitely is recognized as such today, and has been since his compositions were reintroduced…

Divine Comedy. When Beatrice died, Dante began to study philosophy and the politics in Florence. He held a number of important public posts. However, in 1302, Dante was exiled for life by the leaders of the Black Guelphs and Pope Boniface VIII. This was the beginning of his most productive artistic period, and began to write The Divine Comedy. This piece of work has flourished for more than 650 years, when he wrote it, and is now considered a major work of art. Dante died in 1321 and is now seen…

of music out and they would hit the billboard and if you dont know what the billboard is then I can give you an idea of what it is. So the billboard is when your song is hits the top 100 on the chart so basically you have to reach a certain amount of views on the song in order for it to get the top 100 so that is what almost all his songs hit. And Derek’s songs would go platinum and as you can imagine he was very wealthy from his songs. But a bad thing about him is that according to his music…

EARLY VERDI In his early works, Verdi was known for using canons and fuges and also to have written vocal music, band music and chamber works. In his early opera he uses standard elements of Italian opera content of the period. Amongst the essential elements are the aria, the duet, the ensemble, and the finale sequence of an act. The aria format, involved three sections, a slow introduction, marked typically cantabile or adagio, known as the cavatina, a tempo di mezzo that might involve chorus…

Bob Dylan has used his multiple years of making music and writing countless poems to earn himself an outstanding award. He is the first musician to ever win the Nobel Prize Award for Literature and it has come with a lot of controversy. Even though some consider him not to be one of the best musicians, he is one of the most important poets and musicians of all time because he has expressed so many social and political concerns throughout his lyrics. His great works can be not only sung but also…

the school year and no was the final answer. However, a silver lining rose to help pass the time, Blue Hawaii had just come out. Imagine, beaches filled with warm sand and surfers testing out waves in the distance. Not to mention, the perfect sunny days and streets filled with smiling faces. Mary and her best friend Pat longed to see the new movie starring Elvis Presley, but, neither of them could drive. At this point, it seemed like there was no way they would be able to go see Blue Hawaii. How…

Tupac Shakur also known as 2Pac was born June 16, 1971 in East Harlem, Manhattan, New York and died on September 13, 1996. Tupac was known for his talent of rapping and his ability to create controversial lyrics. Tupac won 2 awards out of 3 nominations on Soul Train and nominated in many other award shows. Tupac created a song named "Changes", which is very popular in today's society. In this song 2Pac is suggesting that people should make changes within their lives. 2Pac feels poverty, violence…

American rapper, record producer and an actor. His name is Tupac Amaru Shakur. Also known as, 2pac. He was born June 16 1971 in East Harlem, New York City. He died on September 13 1996 in Las Vegas, NV. The cause of his death was murder. On September 7th 1996, Tupac was leaving a boxing event in Las Vegas when he was shot multiple times. Six days later, he passed away on the 25th of September. To me, my hero is someone who will never give up, even when times are hard. A hero is someone who keeps…

vision he’s having of a woman playing music on an instrument and how the…