Essays on Music

The “Jazz Age” was really effective to music during the 1920s. While jazz is an extraordinary style, its origin still had its cons. Although, if you enjoy jazz, you may enjoy a famous jazz singer named Ella Fitzgerald! Jazz has led music up to its...

‘I Owe Marilyn Monroe a Real Debt,’ Ella Fitzgerald on How the Actress Helped Her Career Take Off Marilyn Monroe helped Ella Fitzgerald’s career take off in a way that speaks about the person she was behind the camera.  Those who lived and worked in...

“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything”. This famous quote from the renowned Athenian philosopher, Plato, resonates throughout the history of music and withstands the test of time. One of the most important...

The 1930s and 1940s were hard times in American History, filled with war and trial. But even amidst these times, they still found enjoyment in many different methods of entertainment, especially if those forms were not expensive. With sound coming to most of the movies...

The introduction of jazz began in the late 1800s and has continued to spread throughout history still today. In the beginning, women who played an instrument or even helped with the bands within their communities were not recognized. The first few important people recognized were...

Trumpet melodies could be heard all over the city of New Orleans in the early 1900s, and it changed the course of music forever. Inconceivable musicians emerged from this era such as Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, and Ella Fitzgerald; they created a new world of...

For as long as we can recall, society has severely embedded into generations their personal beliefs of Black Americans, as merely their existence invokes feelings of unnecessary discomfort or terror. Victimized for his race, Brent Staples, an author, composed Just Walk on By: A Black...

Justin Bieber is a Canadian singer and songwriter. Before fame, his life was very different. After being discovered by a music producer, Bieber reached incredible fame all over the world. Fame changed not only changed his lifestyle but also his personality. This paper attempts to...

Beethoven is one of the most well-known and influential musicians of all time, if not, the most. He has been credited for the romantic period, which drastically changed the way music is played in a lot of ways, especially in [the three pieces]. To put...

We listen to the music of Beethoven not only for its ability to transcend time and to experience visceral emotional fulfillment, but also to gain insight into the composer and his mythologized life. Music came to occupy a privileged role within Romanticism because of its...