Music Essays

Biography of The Monkees
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction:  American rock and pop music have been classic examples of the most popular music genres in the country, since time immemorial. Growing up to a background that has significantly high regard ...

African American Music and the NWA
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction:         African American musicians have used music as a way make their voice heard and spread the message of the ongoing civil rights movement. One of the ...

Coldplay’s Success Through a Digital Landscape
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: A Sky Full of Technology It comes as no surprise that the music industry is changing with both digital technology and media. The way an audience consumes and experiences music is changin...

Music of the Black Lives Matter Movement
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: The Black Lives Matter has been from the last decade politicizing famous artist to shake the commercial cobwebs from R & B and hip-hop. The reason for this action is stereotypical views again...

Biography of Benny Goodman
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: Benny Goodman the King of Swing American jazz clarinetist and bandleader, he led one of the most popular musical groups, in 1935 Benny Goodman was the first white man to have a black man in his ...

Beginnings and Importance of 1950’s Cool Jazz
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: The Beginnings and Importance of 1950’s Cool Jazz: ‘The Birth of the Cool’ The 1950s was the advent of a new America. It was a decade that really brought about the suburban Middle...

Child Prodigy Research Report
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: Child Prodigy Research Report – Clara Schumann There are many child prodigies in the world that have made a huge impact on the way we view it or think about it. A fantastic one wo...

Impact of Mozart and Beethoven on Classical Music
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
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Influence of Music on Culture and the Individual
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: Music In our world  Beauty. It is what all of human history and culture is built upon. Beauty and art in its many forms defines any given culture at any specific time in history. T...

Effect of Jazz in the 1920s-40s
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: The Effect of Jazz in the 1920s-40s  The Jazz Age was more than solely a musical epoch, it developed the culture and character of America. It was the first truly modern decade, and...

Tradition and Dissent in Music: Dmitri Shostakovich
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: Tradition and Dissent in Music: Dmitri Shostakovich   To what extent can Shostakovich’s compositions be regarded as expressions of musical dissent.   ...

The Rise of Asian/Asian American Hip Hop in America’s Music Industry
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: The Rise of Asian/Asian American Hip Hop in America’s Music Industry  Hip hop culture in the past was an underground phenomenon that was accused of having a bad influence on yout...

Extended Instrumental Techniques in George Crumb's Music
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: George Crumb – The use of Extended Instrumental Techniques in his music For my essay on the composer George Crumb, I decided to take a closer look at how he uses extended instrumental...

Characteristics of the Musical Repertory Often Described as 'expressionist'
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: Twentieth-Century essay  What are the principal characteristics of the musical repertory often described as ‘expressionist’? Illustrate your answer by reference to work...

Johann Sebastian Bach and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: Introduction:  The two composers I will be discussing are: Johann Sebastian Bach, and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. Their pieces: Jesu, meine Freude, 1723 and Missa Papae Marce...

What is ADC & How is ADC Processed?
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: What is ADC & How is ADC Processed? The mean of ADC stands for Analogues to Digital Converter. The process of analogue to digital conversion is outlined in some ways. Computers indi...

Issue of Illegal Drugs in Music Lyrics
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Aug 2018
Introduction: Julia Dugger   Music is and always has been an integral part of society. It is, according to Glowacka Pitet, 2004, one of the longest celebrated traditions of humankind that enables the exchange o...

Franz Liszt: Biography and Works
Example essay. Last modified: 14th Jun 2018
Introduction: Franz Liszt and the New German School In pre-modern Europe, most artists were content to follow a proud classical tradition, offering creative embellishments of their own as a contribution to the fiel...

Ethnomusicology: Developments of Māori Music
Example essay. Last modified: 3rd Jan 2018
Introduction: Music in Context A: Ethnomusicology Discuss some of the more recent social, cultural and technological developments that have informed studies in ethnomusicology Introduction For this essay I will be ...

Impacts of Music Piracy
Example essay. Last modified: 3rd Jan 2018
Introduction: In the future, the only way musicians will make money is by playing live. New federal legislation says universities must agree to provide not just deterrents but also “alternatives” to pee...

First Movement From Brandenburg Concerto No 2 By J S Bach
Example essay. Last modified: 3rd Jan 2018
Introduction: One of Bach’s most celebrated compositions, Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 was part of six compositions (known as the Brandenburg Concerti, collectively, though they were mostly musically unrelated)...

Beethoven's Musical Form
Example essay. Last modified: 3rd Jan 2018
Introduction: Among the musical form these three forms are evident in the works of Ludwig Beethoven. The prelude, overture and sinfonie are among the musical forms which can be seen in the composition of Beethoven....

Language and Music
Example essay. Last modified: 2nd Oct 2017
Introduction: “Understanding music requires no recuperation[SKS1] of a fictional world, and no response to imaginary objects….the meaning of music lies within it; it can be recovered only through an act of mus...

Development of Taylor Swift
Example essay. Last modified: 2nd Oct 2017
Introduction: Taylor Swift: Pinnacle of the Music Industry Billboard, a popular news source for music, interviewed the successful singer Sam Smith and he gave his opinion on another artist he has become quite fo...

Scales in Music
Example essay. Last modified: 2nd Oct 2017
Introduction: “Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black show sadness. But as you go through life’s journey, remember that the black keys also create music” – “Unknow...