Classical Music Classical music is an age-old genre of music that is typically stereotyped by many people in today's society. This type of music is frequently associated with the elderly and the upper class, and classical music is usually thought of as boring and sleep provoking. Althoug...

Classical music or Rock. Music takes a huge part in our lives. There are lots of different kinds of music and people listen it all the time. However people listen not every kind of music, for example, some prefer classical music, another rock music. Two different kinds of music, which ...

From the year 800 A.D, music has evolved and developed in many different ways over 6 main musical periods. These different stages in music's history all have their own distinguishing features such as the type of instruments used, the texture of the music and the sound that is created through di...

Classical Music and its effects on the NeonateIn Today's society music is very diverse. It produces feelings and emotions sensed by all walks of life. Different styles of music tend to give different ideas and impressions to people. It affects everyone it comes in contact with, and it is more pow...

Rap/Hip Hop and classical music are two very different types of music. The difference is very noticeable in sound, and the music's characteristics. The listeners and audience of the two types of music are very different as well. Classical music and rap music are also both viewed very differen...

I believe that the two most contradicting genres of music are classical music and rock and roll music. After a long interview with my aunt, I found out that her favorite type of music was classical music because it was a big part of her life. This was the popular music for her at the time because ...

From the beginning of the world, music has been an important element in different dynasties, places, societies and individuals. Music actually has a lot of purposes, which can help us in our daily life. Nowadays, music involves some help in medical treatment. For example, many psychologists...

Early music is based mainly on the music of the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque eras. Many people like to define Early Music as ending in 1750, with the death of J.S. Bach. This is a handy date, but it misses the various stylistic changes taking place around that time, i.e. the e...

There are many preconceptions of what the history of music is. Some people think it is mainly a biography of composer's lives, but they are wrong. The history of music is primarily the history of musical style. In order to appreciate this, it is essential to become acquainted with the diffe...

Popular music at the moment, reaches many of us through the medium of music videos. There are various types of video channels, such as MTV, VH1, The Box, etc. These video channels now have off-shoot (subsidiary) channels such as; MTV2, MTVBase, VH2, etc. These music video channels exhibit specific m...

The Evolution of Rap Music All one has to do is simply observe their surroundings to realize the huge impact of rap music on today\'s society. The way people dress, talk, and act have all been influenced by the cultural phenomenon known as rap music. Almost every aspect of American culture has b...

Bessie Smith, known as the "Empress of the Blues," was the most influential and controversial classical blues singer of the 1920s. During her prime, her powerful blues voice sold almost a million records and gave her a weekly salary of about $2000, placing her at the top of the blues charts. Thoug...

Cool music girls Lately I have been interested in girl singers. Such singers as Madonna, Cindy Lauper, Pat Benetar, Pink, Jewel, and so on. Their music inspires me. So, while I was looking for a topic for class, I noticed an article called 'Cool music girls". It's about six bold ...

Can You Feel The Beat Thrashing Punk, smooth Reggae, thumping Hip Hop and peaceful Classical music each involve different styles and beats that make each sound unique. Music can either sooth my soul or give me an adrenalin rush that stimulates my body and mind. The beat ...

Popular Music Popular music is music that is enjoyed by the largest possible audience. It includes country music, folk music, rhythm and blues, musical comedy, jazz, marches, rock n' roll, and ragtime. Young people primarily listen to popular music. The popular music industry is based largely on...

Duke Ellington and the Harlem Renaissance: The term Harlem Renaissance refers to an artistic, cultural, and social time of writing about race and the African American's place in American life during the early 1920's and 1930's. It is hard to put a specific time and date in terms ...

The music industry is an industry that is making billions of dollars a year. This is largely due to the impact of pop culture on music. Nowadays there are many different types of media that exemplify pop culture. Pop culture is marketed directly to American youth through the medium of large net...

Have you ever turned on the radio and thought to yourself where did this all start? In fact the root of R&B run deep. Rhythm and Blue is a commonly used term to describe the sophisticated urban music, which started back as far back as the 1920's. Over the decades, thanks to different artist...

"It is America's music – born out of a million American negotiations: between having and not having; between happy and sad, country and city; between black and white and men and women; between the Old Africa and the Old Europe – which could only have happened in an entirely new...

My primary goal for enrolling in music appreciation was to learn about the composers/musicians that have greatly contributed to modern music. Therefore, I decided to analyze a piece of music "Rhapsody in Blue", which affected music in 1920's and still impacting the music world today. George Gershw...

George Gershwin George Gershwin was the most celebrated and wealthiest American composer who expressed the dreams of every American citizen of the 1920's. He achieved this by mixing different styles of music like Jewish, black, jazz, classical, blues and put them into one genre and created absolu...

Duke Ellington Where would music be had it not been for the men that stepped before him. The Motzarts and Beethovens, who wrote the music that today is known as the classics. These men were naturals in their own right, but these people wrote their music in the 17th and 18th century. Many pe...

Big Band Big band refers to a jazz group of 10 or more musicians, usually featuring at least three trumpets, two or more trombones, four or more saxophones, and a rhythm section of accompanists playing some combination of piano, guitar, bass, and drums. Big-band music as a concept for music fans is ...

Lionel Hampton, well known as the "King of Vibraphone" was born in Louisville, Kentucky on April 12, 1913. He went to school at the Holy Rosary Academy in Kenosha, Wisconsin, studied the Dominican Sisters. His first instrument was the drums; his idol was Jimmy Bertrand who he treasured....

Louis Armstrong is one of the most important jazz musicians and one of the greatest jazz musicians of the world. He is also one of the most influential musicians in the jazz music and its history. He had a special voice which by some people was called a "gravel-voice". The style that he p...