Vocal music

Music has evolved drastically throughout time. There are countless styles of music in the world that I appreciate and admire. However, I prefer music that has a message or story in it that touches my heart. The combination of moving lyrics, beautiful voices, and outstanding music composers creates magic. One of my favorite songs is a song called As Real as You and Me by Rihanna. I first heard the song while watching the move Home. It started playing while a characters sacrifices himself for the…

138) In the 'Renaissance' era was very polyphonic texture. Polyphony requires two or more lines in the musical piece. But the Renaissance was more into the vocal aspect of music than with accompanying instruments. Thus creating a more dramatic style of singing developed. The 'basso continuo' was the chordal assistant to most music in the Baroque era. This is where the harpsichord comes in. Harpsichord and a low strung instruments make up the basso continuo. The texture in the early…

On Tuesday May 10, I attended a concert by the rock band, Dorothy at The Echo. The band lineup included: Dorothy Martin(vocals), Mark Jackson(guitar), Gregg Cash (bass), Zac Morris (Drums). Unfortunately, I was only able to hear two original songs of their own creation: “Missile” and “After Midnight”. Both songs were met with enthusiastic applause and praise. I was actually anxious to see them perform live as they were mentioned in Rolling Stone magazine as a promising new band and because I had…

Music is the center of the world on a day to day basis. Certain songs can impact us to the very core of who we are, and we become awe-inspired by them. Then, we add them to our playlists in hopes of enjoying them day in and day out. Not often do we sit back and really think as to why they influence us so much. One of my favorite songs is titled “Clean” by Natalie Grant. This song describes how Jesus takes our brokenness and sin and washes us completely clean. The composition begins with a very…

community primarily listened to race music. Thee Midniters members were: Willie Garcia; Lead Vocal, Greg Esparza: Vocals, Jimmy Espinoza: Bass, Larry Rendon; Saxophone, Romeo Prado; Trombone, Bobby Loya; Trumphet, George Dominguez; Lead Guitar, Roy Marques: Rhythm Guitar. The music of Thee Midniters uses the arrangement that is familiar to popular music: intro, verse, chorus, bridge, solo, pre-chorus, and a hook. The amount of similarity in the Midniters music is remarkable. However, there songs…

Asher roth song “ I Love College” reflects the culture of the 2000S as a college anthem. The song is categorized through its melody , texture, and its word-music relationships. The key instruments used in the song are a drum and a gutier, those instruments are really used in pop, country, and rock music.The way asher roth has the guitar playing out throughout the whole song with the amazing beat is wonderfully laid out it's a catching tune that mostly everybody can sing along too, he put so…

It has a strong and powerful mood. It starts off with scared emotions that grow into acceptance and then happiness. There are major high and low pitches in the piece of music. The ones that stand out the most are made by the pitch of the singers voice. The tone color of this song is brilliant. The same melody is played by the singer and then later an instrument this helps to highlight the melody. This song is sung by…

Both sonata and vocal forms influenced the development of concerto form as instrumental music practices and writing evolved from the middle to late Baroque (ca. 1680– 1730). This paper will examine the development of the instrumental concerto during the Baroque, focusing on analysis of the works and contributions to the form by Arcangelo Corelli (1653–1713) and Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741). Representing a span of one generation in time, and working in different musical centers within Italy,…

in northwest DC. Buffalo 40 is a rock band that was created in 2013 that combines many musical elements such as “rock funk blues metal and modern rock”(ReverbNation). These fusional musical elements of their performance highlighted their country music and rock musical identities as well as their attire, lyrics, gender identity socioeconomics and race. During the performance of clothing but one exception was one band member was wearing a top hat with green cloth attached to it. Each band member…

The string quartet has been one of the predominant genres of chamber music since the year of 1759. The string quartet consists of four string instruments, usually with two violins, a viola and a cello which performed structured symphonies in the form of four movements. The first movement in Sonata form, Allegro, in the tonic key; the second movement is a slow movement, in a related key; the third movement is a Minuet and Trio, in the tonic key; and the fourth movement is often in Rondo form or…