This confusion of two quite distinct crafts often leads to a good deal of trouble for people in the early stages of writing songs. The answer is simple, though: do not confuse poetry and song lyrics.It is true that some lyrics read quite well away from their music, and some lyrics have a poetic quality in terms of their imagery or phrasing. But that alone does not turn a song lyric into a poem. The language of poetry is often too complex to be set to music. Poetry is intended to convey its meaning and emotion purely through words. True poetry has much less tolerance of clichè than lyrics. There are images you can get away with in a song lyric that you could never use in poetry.
Lyrics are words whose effect depends upon, and is symbiotic with, music. The music can supply whatever profundity is not there in the words. A banal phrase delivered by a great singer like Levi Stubbs or Aretha Franklin can sound fresh and full of meaning. In the same way, great music can excuse or even temporarily revive clichèd words and images.
Music is such a powerful modifier of meaning that a lyric that is essentially saying “I hate you’ could end up leaving the listener with the impression that although the singer says he hates her (or she hates him), really and truly he still loves her. Take 10cc’s ‘I’m Not In Love’. In this song, the speaker is at pains to insist that he does not love the addressee, yet the poignant music is undermining all his denials and turning them into excuses. In the end, though, the speaker never comes clean and admits it. He is saying that he’s not in love to the very end. In Dylan’s ‘Just Like A Woman’ the music seems to be almost rebelling against the acid disdain of the lyric. Other songs with a marked tension between lyric and music include The Police’s ‘Every Breath You Take’, Blue Oyster Cult’s ‘Don’t Fear The Reaper’ and Elvis Costello’s ‘Oliver’s Army’. The respective themes of possessiveness, suicide and imperialism are deliberately presented in musical disguise, the bitter pill sugar-coated.And all three were big hits.
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The acoustic guitar came to America in the 1850s, thanks mainly to immigrants from Eastern Europe. Guitar maker Christian Friedrich (C. F.) Martin left his native Germany because of dissatisfaction with the restrictive guilds that oversaw all instrument making back home.Meanwhile, factories were built to turn out inexpensive guitars by the dozens, and mail order catalogs like Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward began selling five-dollar instruments.
In the nineteenth century the guitar was promoted as a parlor instrument for young ladies to play. In the time before phonographs and radio, music-making was a favorite amateur activity. Young women were especially encouraged to learn music as an important social skill. While the piano was large and ungainly, the guitar was small and sweet voiced at the time, most guitars were far smaller than today’s jumbo models, and they were all strung with gut strings in the classical style. Because of this, the guitar was thought to be an ideal instrument for young ladies, and it soon became popular.
As stage performers began taking up the guitar in the early twentieth century, they clamored for louder instruments that could fill a concert hall. Guitar makers responded by making bigger guitars; others began experimenting with different shapes for the guitar’s body to improve bass response and volume. The Martin company made an important contribution in the teens with the introduction of their so-called D or Dreadnought guitar. With a wider lower bout (or half of the body), and with construction strong enough to withstand the newly introduced steel strings, the instrument was immediately popular for its loud bass volume and carrying power.
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Posted on 21 February '10 by Music And Song, under Guitar. No Comments.
The entertainment world is growing fast and almost all humans love entertainment. The most popular entertainment is music. The most favorite entertainments are song or band performance and then television shows. The music performance often shows their best singers or the best music group to perform live in the middle of the audiences. If you have such music group and you want to be famous, you and you band group only need to practice. You need to have your on studio as the place practice. To have music studio, you need to prepare a room that wide enough for all music equipments. The room is also need to be cored by soft layers as sound isolation so that the quality of the music is perfect. The floor is also need to be covered using rugs. There are many rugs that you and get to make your music studio perfect. You can use the rugs to cover the floor and also the wall.
To get the Rugs, you can always search it on the internet. There are many websites that sell rugs of many types and kind. In fact, there is one rugs manufacturer that has the best rugs in the world. The rugs you need for your studio is the Area Rugs. If you have large rooms, two area rugs will do to cover the floor. You can also buy Cheap Rugs to cover the wall and the ceiling. Although the rug is cheap, it has the same quality as any other rugs.
All of these rugs are made from the best New Zealand wools and it is made using the best machinery and its finalizing is using human labors. The human labor will make sure that the rugs are perfect and have the best quality. moreover, they are very affordable.
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Posted on 15 February '10 by Music And Song, under Dance Music. No Comments.
