Jazz To Pop Music Essay

Jazz to Pop

Like all music styles, some form or older style help start a new type of music.

The new music style has gotten some type of beats or sounds from an older style of music. This is where our journey begins going from middle ages to western to jazz to pop. Starting from newest to oldest pop is going to start our list. Pop is a style of music that can be accepted into all generations and all ages. It can be at times not appropriate for some age groups, and as my mother once said,

“I don’t like this music you cant understand them and the bass hurts my ears.”

This is coming from someone who has grown up listening to jazz and classic rock. Many songs in the jazz and classic rock genre are fast paced. Just like many pop songs but with out

Such as a Taylor swift song knowing she is going through a break up, or a

Rush song showing how cool it is to be a rock star. Just like jazz knowing there is feeling coming from the song they have written is from something that has happened to them. As jazz has helped pop grow to the big type of music style it is

today, jazz was helped by some of its older relatives in the music community such as western music.

Western music has helped music today by giving listeners a different type of music option with is guitar and harmonica based style. It helps create dramatic movements in music. This has helped music with the different rhythms in music today. Western music today is known as country still using the guitars and many songs still using a harmonica. The part that was added onto country was vocals off deep voiced men who sing about everyday life as a country men and women. As western music has helped the types of music today we still have one more that goes back to the middle ages, known was middle age music.

This type of music uses instruments like trumpets, bagpipes, drums, bells, and stringed instruments used with a bow or strumming. Some of the songs in