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Music is Such a Powerful Modifier of Meaning

Music And Song — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 01:32:35 +0000

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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Music Performance

Music And Song — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:08:51 +0000

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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In Any Music Intended For Dancing

Music And Song — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 09:00:32 +0000

Rhythm is a vital aspect of popular music. In fact, it is one of the things that makes popular music popular. Rhythm is fundamental to human consciousness. In the womb, we grow to the beat of our mother’s heart. Everyday activities have rhythm walking, or tapping our fingers on a table. Rhythm can be intoxicating, and it can carry people out of themselves. Armies march to the sound of drums, and some religious rituals have used drums to assist with the inducing of trance and altered states of consciousness. The overtly rhythmic nature of rock music itself was characterised by some critics in the 1950s as primitive, a reversion to the jungle.

In classical music, the beat is implicit. A conductor signals the beats with waves of a baton, but rarely do classical pieces have a percussion instrument marking every beat. Percussion is deployed at specific moments in order to accent a theme or a dynamic change. By employing the drum kit (and, more recently, the drum machine), popular music has insisted on making the beat explicit. This is part of its long established connection with dance. In any music intended for dancing, which much popular music always has been, rhythm is obviously important. But a catchy rhythm can do more than just set your feet tapping it can be an important part of what makes a song memorable.

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Even in a Rock Song

Music And Song — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:00:36 +0000

The near-constant presence of a drum kit (real or electronic) in popular music can make us forget that a song could approach rhythm in a different manner. From time to time consider not having a continuous beat. In an orchestral setting tympani rolls, snare rolls and cymbal crashes occur only to mark special moments in the music, such as a crescendo or climax.

Marking the beat percussively all the time would be considered vulgar in classical music –that’s what the conductor is doing by waving his arms. If you compare the 1947 revision of Igor Stravinsky’s ballet Petrouchka with the 1911 version, you will notice that he took out much of the percussion – presumably on the mature judgement that he had been over-emphatic in the original score. The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds album offers a fine example of percussion used in a less obvious way.

Even in a rock song, dramatic effects can be generated by taking out the beat for a few bars. Good examples are ‘Summertime Blues’, ‘Something Else’, ‘Lucille’, ‘My Generation’, Ash’s ‘Goldfinger’, Dodgy’s ‘In A Room’, Metallica’s ‘Enter Sandman’, Led Zeppelin’s ‘What Is And What Should Never Be’ and The Bluetones’ ‘Slight Return’. There’s a wonderful pull-out and re-entry of the drums in ‘Tumbling Dice’. The obvious place to delay the entry of the drums is on the intro, as in ‘There She Goes’, ‘Bittersweet Symphony’ and ‘Over The Hills And Far Away’. ‘In The Air Tonight’ has a long-delayed entry which was the probable inspiration for Preston Hayman’s spectacular snare-drum entry on Kate Bush’s ‘Leave It Open’. You can even bring in the drums on what sounds like a ”wrong” beat, as on ‘Start Me Up’ and ‘Marquee Moon’.

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