Music Essays

Music is an important aspect of everyday life; it can be heard everywhere from the car radio to the local coffee shop. It allows people to express their thoughts and feelings in a way nothing else can. Music also has the unique ability to connect people on a deeper level …

Alexander Shelley was born on October 8, 1979 in London, England into a family of musicians. He is an English conductor and is a cellist and a pianist. He began playing the piano at a very young age in 1992, and won a music scholarship at the Westminster school from, …

By combining a teenage summer romance with a sick parent, and you’ve got everything you need for a typical, but amazing Nicholas Sparks novel. Sadly, the movie doesn’t live up to the perfectly written story for shown in the book. The Last Song tells the story of a recent high …

Okot p’Bitek worked as anthropologist, poet, novelist an even footballer which led him to go and being educated in England on law and anthropology and later literature. He differed himself from other African writers who wrote in western styles and in western point of view. He has chosen an African …

I have chosen two poems, A Song of The Republic, by Henry Lawson (1867-1922), and ‘If You Forget Me’ by Pablo Neruda (1904-1973). Both of these poems use many different techniques to reflect the context of their time and their values and beliefs. Pablo Neruda was a Nobel prize winning …

The piano and drums are a poem by Gabriel Okara, which clearly reflects the culture in post-colonial Africa. Discuss the theme and tone of piano and drums by Gabriel Okara example of the essay. The reader can discover that throughout his poetry he is very troubled by the personality of …

The yield of a metal from a particular mineral or ore is the mass of metal that can be obtained from a particular mass of the mineral or ore, and is often expressed as a percentage. It is possible to use formulae to calculate/predict yields of metals from particular minerals …

Promt: Compare the two versions of The Seafarer by Raffel and Pound and give reasoning for why one is a better translation, in terms of preserving the Anglo-Saxon poetic tradition and the overall feel of the poem. It would not be possible to translate The Seafarer perfectly, keeping all of …

Have you ever gone out on Saturday night to hear someone sing the blues? Have you ever gone to a Baptist church the next morning and heard a joyful gospel song? You may think the two musical expressions have nothing in common, but if you listen closely and study their …

Music is the universal language of culture. The emotion evoked from a piece of music inspires people all over the world. Music is constantly changing with society’s views of popularity and need for betterment. For generations, music was a concept of solely vocal chants, melodies, organums, and little or no …