Essays on Music

The in-class jazz concert was a delightful experience. I enjoyed seeing how much fun the students were having while playing music. The instruments which took part of it were the bass, drums, piano, trombone, and tenor saxophone. The drums mostly caught my attention, the drummer…

For the Jazz/World concert, I went to the one here at FHSU on November 21st. It was an easy choice, since I live near campus and my roommate actually plays in the Jazz band. The wardrobe choice is much different than the typical formal wear…

The concert that I watched on YouTube is a metal music festival called Wacken Open Air and it takes place every summer in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The festival that I saw is from 2016 and it had big performers such as Iron Maiden, Blind Guardian, Testament,…

Throughout the song, If I Die Young, the poem, The Lady of Shalott, and the book, Le Morte d’Arthur, there were many likes and differences. Throughout all three, Elaine wants to marry Sir Lancelot, but he’s in love with Queen Guinevere, and Sir Lancelot won’t…

The Romantic Era was a time in music when there was tons of change throughout the 1850s until the 1920s in the theory and compositional practice of music. Many composers made their work with freedom, experimentation, and creativity more than the composers of older times….

One of the most popular methods to listen to music today is through streaming services such as Apple Music or Spotify. Our society has progressed from physical media purchases such as vinyl, cassette, and CD sales, to digital variants. As we all know it, streaming…

Introduction Music is always around us whether or not we tend to adore it. It has become a tool for relieving stress and tension and has become a part of our life. People tend to use it as a tool to relax and is a…

The music industry has gone through an unbelievable amount of changes throughout the last decade. Everything shifts so quickly that it is hard to keep up to date with trends. We see new acts becoming popular overnight, digital stores suddenly shutting down, new tools to…

A unique musical phenomenon, ragtime is generally known to composers and musicians as being more than simply a genre of music. Real Ragtime (booklet 4), a collection of ragtime recordings with booklets containing descriptions and notes stated, “….ragtime created an attitude and defined an era…

Sonata form represents a large-scale structure that can be traced back to many works done in early classical works back in the 18th century up to the late 19th-century romantic period. Sonata forms are easily located in almost every first movement on works of Beethoven,…