I started off my day by waking up to my boyfriend’s phone alarm. The song is called “Unholy Confessions” by Avenged Sevenfold. It is in the genre of heavy metal and he picked that song to help wake him up since he’s a heavy sleeper. The tempo of the music was fast and the dynamics of this song was forte. The main contributor to the dynamics is the vocalist who just screams the majority of the song. The combination of loud and fast music created an upbeat mood which makes us feel like jumping out of bed every morning. For the meter, there were four beats in a measure, and I found it by listening for the downbeat which was the combination of the bass, the bass drum, and loud electric guitar on the first beat of every measure. I don’t particularly like this genre of music and listening to it makes me feel very uncomfortable because to me it’s very chaotic and not it’s not peaceful enough. In my musical theatre class, we are studying the musical “Show Boat (1927).” During class, we watched a YouTube video on the performance of the song called “Ol’ Man River.” This song’s genre is opera and I can tell because the style is to sing very long notes in vibrato and I at times I cannot tell what …show more content…
I love this song because it is sung by my favorite artist Taylor Swift and the genre is pop. I can immediately tell this song is pop because of the style of the song. The beat is fast, the guitar and keyboard creates a hip and cool beat, and I can recognize the artists’ voices immediately. The texture of this song is thick as it is edited to have many different instrumental parts adding to make the song come together as one. Zayn is a male singer and sings in the countertenor vocal range, but he can also sing in a high soprano vocal range like Taylor Swift does in this song. The couple both take turns singing the harmony during the chorus and verses of the
The song “You and Me” by Disclosure, remixed by Flume illustrates a mix of pop and electronic styles. A sad sounding, synthesized violin creates the harmony gives away that the song is in a minor key. As the violin’s texture filters in, it creates a dramatic atmosphere that builds tension right from the start. Alto vocals are quickly introduced to form a melody. A delay is added to the vocals giving them an echoic texture also adding to the dramatic atmosphere of the piece. During this main theme the tempo seems moderato, not too fast but not very slow. Then, the song builds tension as a lower pitched bass is used and the original violin starts a crescendo, while beginning to sound instable. The bass is taken out and at 1:04 a motive created
It was, in fact, “Ol’ Man River” that many believed to be the highlight of the show. Sung by the African-American character, Joe, “Ol’ Man River” represents the overarching theme of Show Boat. The “river” in the song represents the Mississippi River, but the lyrics
The scene would begin when Equality is in the house reading the books. The music would start playing when he found the word I. After he finds this unusual word. He then would start flipping through the pages, in a way freaking out. He then would grab book after book and one by one they would fall to the ground. This is happening because he recognizes something he has never seen before and that he is trying to understand but he cannot. This song fits well for this scene because it at first starts subtle and kind of relaxed. This part would fit well for when he is starting to glance at the book. Then as the music transitions into the concentrated part. It hits this high point that conveys a very distinct emotion. The song goes from this enjoyment and amazing energy to this strong emotion of rage and betrayal. This song and the way the scene has been set up fits together because Equality is experiencing the same emotions. He is feeling like he is on top of the world until he encounters this word. Additionally, he feels frustrated because he has found out the truth that has been kept from him his whole life. This song would bring out his emotions because it is exactly what he is
Taylor Swift likes to invoke a lot of emotion into her music and includes several things she has experienced in her life. One major recurring theme in her songs is love.
Throughout The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne relays the theme of guilt using symbolism that is portrayed in the scarlet letter itself and in the main character’s daughter. The story follows the protagonist, Hester Prynne, who commits adultery with the town minister, Arthur Dimmesdale, producing the child she raises on her own named Pearl. Guilt is a common theme for the duration of the novel which covers all aspects of the shame each character feels. These particular dimensions of shame come specifically from different objects in the novel and what they represent.
According to Merriam Webster’s Dictionary the definition of voice is “the ability to sing.” This is probably the most important criterion because an audience doesn’t want to listen to a song that contains a horrible voice. This song is a perfect example of two amazing voices. Drake, a famous hip-hop and rap artist, and Rhianna, another famous hip-hop artist, sing this song as a duet. Their voices fit perfectly in this song because they both have a serious tone in their voice to relate with the situation the song is addressing. For example, this song couldn’t be sang by two singers that have a high pitch happy voices because the message that is being portrayed is more of a serious tone rather than a happy tone; therefore, these two singers voices fit the part very well.
In the article “Confession within a confession: Poe’s brave new world in “the cask of amontillado”, the author places his opinion the subject of what happens in the story. The author points out that both the characters in the story are indeed friends. The author points this out to the reader by stating that Fortunato fallows his friend, Montresor, deep into the catacombs under his house. Another argument that the author states, is that Montresor’s’ reason in killing his friend is anger at his friends new wealth with his old wealth that he has. The author as well states that Fortunato is a fool in the story. Fortunato is dressed as a fool for carnival, adding to Montresor’s’ view of his own friend. Another point is that Montresor in his confession
Weeping is a part of the human condition, and Saint Augustine conveys this through scenes of lamentation by Monica and himself in his book, Confessions. Although the various episodes of weeping have similarities, they are unique because they each convey diverse ideas. Monica, Saint Augustine’s mother, weeps when he leaves the Catholic faith, conveying that praying while crying can be powerful. She also cries when her son leaves for Rome, illustrating the struggle to balance material and spiritual wealth. Saint Augustine weeps at the loss of his mother, which conveys the hardships involved with the loss of loved ones. He also weeps at the death of his companion, which illuminates his care for the material world.
Edgar Allan Poe skilfully crafts two separate layers of meaning into his works; an exoteric level that is meant for casual consumption by the masses, and a second esoteric sub-level that involves heavy use of symbolism to tell a second deeper story and reserved only for the particularly astute literary elite. While Poe explores many reoccurring themes throughout his writing, one of the more common is guilt. By comparing the tale of “The Tell-Tale Heart” with “Eleanora”, the repetitive image of eyes becomes apparent. Through intertextuality and the symbolic representation of eyes, Edgar Allan Poe evokes feelings of guilt in the narrator. A guilty narrator is important for eliciting
Blank Confession by Pete Hautman is a young adult novel. It is a thrilling realistic fiction novel with some mystery. It is a short read and the story is fast-paced, thus it is a great novel for anyone who enjoys thrillers, mysteries, quick action, and puzzle solving. The main setting of the novel is in school and a police station as the novel is about high school students and a murder. Some significant themes conveyed in the novel include bullying, violence, crime, and drug-abuse, and despite the intensity of these themes, the novel is successful at maintaining a somewhat humorous mood. The novel is unique in its form of storytelling as it portrays events in a non-chronological order which complements its method of revealing features of
He is able to use these parts to manipulate the audience’s emotions. The music playing from the car is an on-screen sound. As the man gets attacked, the volume increases. The sound helps intensify the scene that has been created by the film’s visual elements. The audience then subconsciously forms ideas, opinions, and feelings about what they are seeing. The viewers develop scared feelings as the scene intensifies to the happy upbeat tune. The increasing volume of the cheery song reflects the violence and the sinisterness of the scene. The song stops with the slamming of the car’s driver-side door as the man is abducted. There is a moment of silence and then a new song abruptly entered the silent scene. The music is non-diegetic and is an offscreen sound. The song is screechy, high pitched, and jagged sounding at first, continuing the anxious and scared mood. The song shifts into a sort of soulful hymn. The tone shifts along with the song. The audience begins to feel relieved and relaxes to the peaceful song.
The Antic Egyptian civilization believed in the afterlife and they needed to prove innocence to the Gods. The ‘’The Negative Confessions’’ were created in order to gain a position in the afterlife. Consequently, the common theme of the confessions in the Book of Dead is that all confessions are a representation of the everyday morality.
Learning plays an essential role in life. We learn something new everyday. In Frank O'Connor's short story "The First Confession", Jackie, the main character, learns a lesson he'll always remember. After Jackie's first confession, he could now be confident that he was not such a sinner, and that Nora, his sister, was wrong. While people focused on Jackie's own wrong doings, they weren't focusing on their own wrong actions. Sometimes people's ignorance can bring them into a whole different reality. Through certain characters and different incidents, O'Connor stresses his theme that people's ignorance can blind them from their own sins.
From outside the door, I look at the mat. The gray mat is like a motionless tide, daring me to enter its world and I do. As I sit on the rolled mats along the wall and look at the clock. Almost time to get going, only five more minutes to be motionless and lazy. Five minutes before the music starts. The same blaring music day in and day out: Linkin park, Eminem, Metallica. The music that makes you want to scream because you have heard it so much, but makes you work that much harder anyway. The music makes those that were pacing impatiently put their legs to use, starting the circle before
The song basically describes the “perfect date” and all these emotions that are “supposed” to be felt to indicate that you love the person. The artist adds classical elements and modern-day elements to her song making it more relatable to teens and also causing them to remember memories of when they were kids watching “Snow White” and wishing one day they will be that princess. The artist keeps repeating that this