Voice classification in non-classical music Essays

  • Dance Performance Observation

    831 Words  | 2 Pages

    Genesis is a talented student and has a very nice singing voice. However, I’m little confused with Genesis. She chooses to be in the musical and choir class, but she rarely participates and was not prepared for the musical. My hope is that she begins to invest herself in the rehearsal process so she can realize her fullest potential as a performer. Although much of the material and performance activities are new for Poppy, she has consistently demonstrated persistence and a positive attitude. Poppy

  • Civil Rights, Equality and the Music of Nina Simone

    2383 Words  | 5 Pages

    Nina Simone used music to challenge, provoke, incite, and inform the masses during the period that we know as the Civil Rights Era. In the songs” Four Women”, “Young Gifted and Black”, and Mississippi God Damn”, Nina Simone musically maps a personal "intersectionality" as it relates to being a black American female artist. Kimberly Crenshaw defines "intersectionality" as an inability for black women to separate race, class and gender. Nina Simone’s music directly addresses this paradigm. While

  • The Importance of a Classical Education

    4431 Words  | 9 Pages

    The Importance of a Classical Education This essay will attempt to answer three questions; what is classical education, why is it necessary in our day and what are its benefits? The word "classical" or "classic" is used in many contexts and often without specific meaning: Classic Coke, classical music, classic rock; however, classical usually means something that through time for various reasons has been proven worthy of our respect and interest. In music, the work of certain composers has

  • Southern Musical Tradition and the African Tradition

    3590 Words  | 8 Pages

    provide the bulk of the labor in the pre-industrial agrarian south. Contemporary blues, while not exclusively black music by any means, remains largely black in terms of its leading performers and, to a lesser extent, its listening audience. The forerunner of the modern urban blues was, however, almost exclusively black and was completely southern and rural. It was, and is, a music born out of the experience of slavery and Jim Crow segregation with their attendant poverty, alienation and suppression

  • A Study of Girish Karnad’s Naga-mandala in Light of Kuntaka’s Vakrokti Siddhanta

    2337 Words  | 5 Pages

    Much work has been done on Indian literature in English based on analyses through the tools of Western critical methods. The ‘Indian classical tradition’ is very rich and consists of perception and insight which serve as a best alternative to the western critical theories; but due to the colonial hangover we fail to appreciate and recognize our age old classical tradition of critical theories. The Sanskrit criticism with its beginnings in the Vedic period, kept amazingly alive till the 17th century

  • Noise Pollution

    5693 Words  | 12 Pages

    hard rock music to loud Harley Davidson motor cycles. The following areas will be investigated in some detail; adolescent education, neural-effects, sleep, hearing damage, occupational environment, transportation, and physiological effects. Introduction Almost everyone has had one experience of being temporarily "deafened" by a loud noise. This "deafness" in not permanent, although it is often accompanied by a ringing in the ears, and one can hear another person if he raises his voice. Likewise

  • George Eliot’s The Lifted Veil

    4946 Words  | 10 Pages

    George Eliot’s The Lifted Veil When George Eliot’s gothic story The Lifted Veil appeared in Blackwood’s in 1859, her partner George Henry Lewes was busy publishing his study of human anatomy, The Physiology of Common Life (1859). Intriguingly, this work of Lewes’s contains a brief tale which is as strikingly morbid as Eliot’s own. Unlike her story, his is not fictional — it is a scientific anecdote prefacing a detailed discussion of the respiratory system — but like The Lifted Veil its dark