Vocal music

Music Through the Middles Ages to the Baroque Period Music is greatly influenced by the culture of the time period it is from. The purpose of creating music and who listens to it has a large impact on how the music sounds. As these aspects change with the culture and time, music does as well. In this way, the music from the Middle Ages is dramatically unlike the music from the Baroque Period. The music that emerged in the Baroque Period was definitely different from that of previous times, as it…

Ella Jane Fitzgerald, known as "The First Lady of Song," was perhaps the popular female jazz singer in the United States for over 50 years. Over her career , she won 13 Grammy awards and sold over 40 million albums. Ella was born on April 25, 1917 into a somewhat broken home. Her father left shortly after she was born and her mother moved in with her boyfriend a few years later. While Ella's early childhood years were happy, they took a turn for the worse after her mother died in 1932. Ella's…

differentiates from Baroque music in many aspects; new musical forms came up, a unique style of composing, the new modern orchestra got its shape and worked more detailed with its sound, as well as the evolution of the bel-canto singing technique. It is also significant to mention that performances moved from churches to concert halls and now the composers were reaching a broader audience compared the previous years. From a technical and aesthetic point of view, Classical music is more clear and…

Despite the fact that plena music has been around for over a hundred years, this should not imply that it is primitive or weak when compared to other musical genres. There’s no doubt that we can find traces of our favorite songs in plena music. When listening to a basic plena song, it will be common for the verses to be broken down into different topics (Manuel 258). This is unique because in the American music that we listen to, it is uncommon to have more than one major topic in a song, but…

of composition. Instead, all voices are polyphonically equal in values. In addition, some of the main characteristics of the renaissance music used in this motet are imitation technique, word painting and the use different types of cadences. The poem used in the motet is inspired based on the story…

instrument, a ukulele. Both of Urban’s parents loved country music and this is where he developed his taste for country music. While learning on his ukulele and progressing on to the guitar (which Urban is known for playing), Urban dreamed of becoming a famous Nashville country musician. While growing up in Australia, Urban began playing at local events and won his first talent show at the age of eight (Keith Urban Biography, n.d).…

seen what the love for music has done; it brought us together, cheered us, enlightened us, and romanticized us. It seems to not be the case anymore. The music industry has killed our music; it has deprived us from the warmth of music. It has turned our artistry into a monopoly. Although, it has brought massive amount of people together, it has also brought the destruction of uniqueness. Millions of people listen to the same thing that comes in the radio, not knowing the music they are listening…

A ton of great music came out in 1975 including, Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks, Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here, Queen's A Night at the Opera, Aerosmith's Toys in the Attic, Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti, the Who's The Who By Numbers, Steely Dan's Katie Lied and Rush's Fly by Night just to name a few. As all of these albums celebrate their 40th anniversary, I'm reminded of just how important 1975 was for music. While each of these recordings were monumental, there are four that standout as…

Music plays a big role in the life of a Mexican. They could never live a life without art. Music in Mexico allows people to talk and express how they feel about something or someone which is usually in their past. This helps people celebrate life and love. History and legends are an overcoming of cruel treatments. The history has experienced an enormous change from the sound of the drums of a Mayan or Aztec ceremony to some modern Mexican rap. Over the years the music has changed. Mexican music…

composing and playing instruments even from an early age. According to Hogwood, “the distinction due to Shakespeare in energy to poem, to Michelangelo in sculpture and painting, Handel may justly claim in the sister art; to him belongs the Majesty of Music.” (Hogwood). George Handel was a talented…