Music Essays

Although countless books about the story of King Arthur have been written, Robert Leeson has managed to give us something new in his book, The Song of Arthur, something that definitely makes it worthwhile to enjoy Arthur’s story once again. The Song of Arthur is a collection of stories about …

Backing the 1950’s when rock and roll hit, concerns grew that it would have effects in the youth of that era because of its lyrics. This same fear is real in the 21st century, with criticism now being directed towards rap. It has been established that rap music promote among …

Main Point: To determine how the MP3 revolution is affecting music sales. THEISIS: Mp3 file sharing does not affect record sales; Recording industries does not expect everyone to stop downloading mp3’s, which they invented the technology for, because they are making too much money making noise about it. Introduction: What …

            Long before modern jazz originated as a particular style, an ideology of modernism had been implicitly embraced by the music’s practitioners. From its earliest emergence, jazz had been a forward-looking art, embedded in new techniques, more expansive harmonies, more complex rhythms, and more intricate melodies. Early modern jazz, or …

The music of Indonesia demonstrates its cultural diversity, the local musical creativity, as well as subsequent foreign musical influences that shaped contemporary music scenes of Indonesia. Nearly thousands of Indonesian islands having its own cultural and artistic history and character. This results in hundreds of different forms of music, which …

Basic Facts;             James McNeill Whistler, (1834-1903) heavily influenced by Japanese artists, created aesthetic paintings controversial to the European audiences, but greatly appreciated by Americans. He spent most of his life in London, still considered an American artist. When he moved to Paris, he attended Navy based West Point Academy. …

            Elvis Presley brought pow wow and pizzazz to rock music, fashion and style. He acquired the title, “King of Rock.” Elvis unique, daring styles inspired fashion and music. “Elvis had revolutionized rock fashions with his “peg slacks, sideburns hillbilly pampaduor” (Australia, 2004).  His style set sixties trends with flared …

Introduction             The term “Jazz” has become a common part of the American vernacular, both as a noun to describe a type of music and as a verb to describe something that is fancy or enhanced beyond the norm, such as a “jazzed up” car or even another piece of …

     The performance in a live concert entails a very demanding scope of preparation. Because of the significant high expectation of the audiences, concert performers, together with the whole crew of the production, need to input their very best attitude since no second takes will be allowed. Every single move …

a. Introduction/Overview A phrase coined by many emerging bands in the early 1980’s, ‘alternative rock’ has become an increasingly more popular term used to describe artists that try to be innately different, yet veer away from the establishment and wish only to play the music they want to play without …