Music Essays

The lyrics to “Wild Horses” are deceptively simple.  The refrain sets up a simple metaphor – wild horses could not drag the narrator away from his love and their situation.  However, at the end of the song, the narrator says “Wild horses, we’ll ride them someday”, acknowledging that the phrase …

Prostitutes played an important and necessary role in Southern Song Society. Confucian scholars who dominated the civil service saw them as excesses and blights upon society’s morals. Buddhists also despised them for tempting men to live hedonistic lives. Other women considered them threats and rivals for the affection of their …

            Since early times, music has been used to improve happiness and diminish pain and distress. (Kathi J. Kemper & Suzanne C. Danhauer, 2005). “The concept that music has healing qualities has persisted for centuries” (Doron K. Antrim, 1944, p.409). Singing has been used to heal by many primitive tribes, …

Reggae music, through the hard works of its pioneers during the ‘60’s and the ‘70’s was intensely brilliant during its golden age. It has a very rich past and intriguingly unique start and a much awaited progress to a music full of potentials and influences. Such genre of artistic endeavor …

            Both Kitagawa Utamoro’s “Girl Powdering her Neck” and interpretive poem by Cathy Song by Kitagawa Utamaro are very beautiful and more than capable of “standing on their own”.  Taken together the effect is both natural and intensely powerful.  The result is like looking at a photograph of a clear …

Music is necessary for survival. Music is indeed a luxury but it also an important aspect of life. The way music sustains life is different from anything else. I strongly believe music is a part of all of us, no matter what we do. Music is an expression of our …

I’m at a classroom trying to solve this math problem given by you. Where should I go now can you help me, I cannot take this anymore. Yeah, I, I know its hard to remember The lessons that you have taught Its even harder to picture that I can pass …

Nowadays, one of the top leading bands in the music industry that hits the billboard chart and contributed a lot in influencing the youth through their music is known to be Maroon 5. The American band first started as a pop rock group in which they originally formed in 1994 …

Johann Sebastian Bach is definitely one of the greatest composers of all time. He is to music as a composer, perhaps what Shakespeare is to literature as a poet and playwright. To complete the analogy, Antonio Vivaldi is to the life of Bach what Christopher Marlowe had been to Shakespeare. …

The evolution of music during the Middle Ages through the Renaissance into the Baroque period played an essential role in the music of the modern era.  Each time period was unique in the style of music that is attributed to it, attesting to the political, historical and cultural developments of …