Music Essays

Did you ever asked yourself who or what is the devil? What it represents in human Society and whether it exists in any form or not. The book “The Lord of the Flies” by William Golding is compared to the song ” Sympathy for the Devil ” by Mick Jagger …

Beethoven like Mozart followed his father as a court musician. The Beethoven’s served the archbishop-elector of Bonn in West Germany. But Ludwig’s father, unlike Wolfgang’s was a failure and an alcoholic who beat the boy to make him practice. The father-son relationship is similar in the fact that both fathers …

Music is all around us. We all grew up listening to some type of music. No one can really determine when music began or which cultures had music first. There are stories of its origins that go back to ancient times. “Popular music is music produced for and sold to …

Rock music of today has turned to shit because of MTV’s TRL, the billboards, and Brittney Spears’s record sales have something to do with the size of her breasts. Rock music from the 70’s through today will be remembered for years, but it lacks the true timelessness of classical music. …

During World War 2, many big band members were drafted or volunteered to join the war effort. Big bands lost some of their great members, and thus big bands came to an end. Swing music, which was very popular during the war, died out at the end of the war. …

The trombone is certainly the most recognizable wind instrument, being the only one with a true slide section. The trombone has been in existence for centuries under various forms and names, but has remained relatively unchanged for a majority of that time. In the 15th century, when trombones developed from …

Abstract The history of the head-up display dates back to World War II. Since then, the head-up display has gone through a variety of changes and upgrades. Both the Airline Pilots Association and the Airline industry pursued the development of the head-up display because of the advantages it offers. As …

Ludwig van Beethoven is a name that is common to most people and is synonymies with great classical music. He is known, quite loosely, as the German composer who created beautiful pieces with an incredible disability. Despite an unhappy family setting and the deafness that struck soon after, the man …

Among many contemporary poets, Gabriel Okara makes his stand as one of the most influential Nigerian lyricists. Okara speaks of the same impressions of the controversial novelist Chinua Achebe. In the poem “Piano and Drums,” Gabriel Okara shows the contrasts between the past life and the modern world. Some aspects …

I. Work Analysis Being an admirer of the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, I chose to analyze Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G Minor. An early analyst and critic of Mozart’s music, Otto Jahn called the Symphony No. 40 “a symphony of pain and lamentation.” Another critic said it was …