Category: Music

  • Paved in Red Clay

    Paved in Red Clay

    Verse 1: I grew up in a small town, Where the streets are paved in red clay, The sun sets behind the pine trees, And the fireflies light the way. Chorus: This is where my heart belongs, In the fields and on the farm, Where the dirt roads lead me home, And love is where…

  • Music Programs Being Defunded Essay

    Music Programs Being Defunded Essay

    Music programs in public schools are an essential part of a well-rounded education, but they are increasingly at risk for defunding. There are several reasons why this is the case. First, funding for public schools is often limited, and budget cuts are often necessary to address other areas of need, such as reducing class sizes,…

  • Laurence John Fishburne III Essay

    Laurence John Fishburne III, also known as Larry Fishburne, is a Hollywood icon and one of the most talented actors of his generation. With a career spanning over four decades, Fishburne has appeared in countless films, television shows, and stage productions, earning critical acclaim and numerous awards along the way. Fishburne was born in Augusta,…

  • Jamie Foxx Essay

    Jamie Foxx is a Hollywood icon and one of the most talented actors and musicians of his generation. With a career spanning over three decades, Foxx has appeared in countless films, television shows, and stage productions, earning critical acclaim and numerous awards along the way. Foxx was born in Terrell, Texas in 1967, and grew…

  • Will Smith Essay

    Will Smith is a Hollywood icon and one of the most talented actors and musicians of his generation. With a career spanning over three decades, Smith has appeared in countless films, television shows, and stage productions, earning critical acclaim and numerous awards along the way. Smith was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1968, and grew…

  • History of Rap Music Essay

    Create The Music The genre called Rap originated in the Bronx, New York, in the mid 1970’ (Howard). Of the many legends of how Rap came to be the most popular has to do with the humble DJ’s and MC’s of the underground clubs. While the DJ spun the track, the MC would entertain the…

  • Biography of Pink Floyd

    Music is a large field made of many types each having a character and a color. Through it audience is selected and the taste is acquired. Music genre differs and new styles get born. Few pioneer some what reached perfection and become legend in the genre they play, such as Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Led…

  • Puerto Rico: Music and Culture Essay

    The inhabitants of the Island of Puerto Rico, known by the name of Borikén to its natives, possess a strong passion for music. To understand the root of this passion it is necessary to explore some of their history and culture. It is also essential to understand some of the basic key elements of the…

  • Hip-Hop is Art

    Hip-hop music is known to be a value player to violence, drugs, and gangs. Through time people looked down on this music genre as degrading, and mindless sound.

  • Rebellious: The New State of Music

    Rebellious: The New State of Music – The Affects Rebellious Music Have on Contemporary Music Abstract With the vast majority of ne genres of music; the basics barely exist. This project focuses on how music has resorted to a rebellious state. Older generations once known music as an entertainment tool during hard times. In today’s…

  • Beauty of Music

    Beauty is an object, person, or an idea that creates a feeling of pleasure or satisfaction. Beauty is found in many everyday things such as nature, art, literature, and music. The most beautiful of all of these is music. Music is beautiful in a way that nothing else can be. Music is beautiful because it…

  • Irving Berlin

    Irving Berlin was born in the poverty stricken town of Tyumen, Russia. He was born on May 11th, 1988 and his birth name was Israel Baline. He was the youngest of 9 children born to Moses and Leah (Lena) Baline. In 1893, escaping Russian persecution, the Baline’s fled to America and settled in the lower…

  • Bernstein and Beethoven

    A product of his times….that seems like such a cliché way of telling a story – but, yes! A product of The Age of Enlightenment, Beethoven was all about some revolution. Through his free and fierce nature, he wrenched music out of the 18th century and into the next – Stravinsky would do the same…

  • Biography of Bob Dylan

    Duluth Minnesota, May 24th 1941 Robert Allen Zimmerman (Bob Dylan) was born. 69 Years and over 45 albums later Bob Dylan has completely altered the face of popular music since his debut as a fresh faced folk singer in 1962. His early career forged him into an informal chronicler and then he later developed into…

  • Love, Teardrops, and The Hundred Secret Senses

    The song “Teardrop” by the 1980’s British brand Massive Attack, which was written by the Scottish singer Elizabeth Fraser, explores the theme of love through the diction and use of repetition (Ankeny). Amy Tan’s fictional novel, the The Hundred Secret Senses, also explores a theme of love similar to that of “Teardrop” through the depiction…

  • Leonard Bernstein

    On August 25, 1918 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, a music legend was born. Leonard Bernstein was Jewish and went to school at Garrison and Boston Latin Schools while learning to play the piano. He found a love for music early on. When Leonard went to Harvard he met some great people, such as Walter Piston and…

  • Rise Against: Modern day folk rocks biggest band

    The band Rise Against is one the best and outspoken bands today. Almost every one of their songs are about and deep social issue and lead singer/songwriter Tim is a very smart person who puts a lot of heart into his songs. Their most recent album Appeal to reason has three songs with very different…

  • Athens Georgia Music Scene

    When most people think of music coming from Athens, Georgia, they think of the B-52s and R.E.M. However, there is a new genre of music coming out of Athens called Athens Rock. Even though it is called a rock genre, it has a little bit of all the popular genres including country, hip-hop, blugrass, and…

  • Leonard Bersteine’s Recording of Tristan and Isolde

    When I read on the course syllabus that the first short assignment of this course will be writing a review for a performence of Richard Wagner’s three-act, romantic masterpiece: Tristan and Isolde, I was ecstatic. I’ve always enjoy love stories, but even more so when it is put into music. To me, love and music…

  • Joe Magnarelli at Smalls Jazz Club

    On Thursday, February 13th, I went to a club performance at Smalls Jazz Club on 183 W. 10th Street to hear Joe Magnarelli on trumpet play a set with a pianist, bassist, and percussionist. The set lasted over an hour and was appreciated by a large

  • Effects of Rock Music in Teenagers

    Teens nowadays have so much freedom that they express anything that they feel. You can easily see us, just by our outfits. Nowadays, we wear what we want and follow nobody. We are really open to new ideas and possibilities. Our generation is very innovative.

  • The History of Rock Music

    Rock music crashed its way into the American music scene in 1955 via AM radio. From then to the early 1970s, rock and roll mirrored and also influenced almost every aspect of American life as there were

  • Music in the 60s

    In a farm field located in Sullivan County, in the township of Bethel, New York, approximately 400,000 young people gathered to form a community based on some pretty simple philosophies (Rolin 204). Their call was not for violent revolution or anarchy but

  • Four-hand vs. Two-hand Pianos Compositions

    Chamber Music LiteratureTerm Paper: Piano Ensembles Pianos are usually used as a solo instrument or accompanying other instruments. However, composers have written numerous compositions for two or more pianos in addition to four-hand piano compositions.

  • Influence of Music in the Major Religions of Asia

    “Music gives us the capacity to express the deepest feelings of the human soul.” Worldwide, music has an important and varied range of application in religious practice. In the major religions of Asia, music is an especially vital part of theology and worship. In