Songwriting Craig McDonagh NQ Rock & Pop 1. In this essay I will detail the basic components that constitute a song and the way in which these components are combined in different ways to create different styles and genres of music. I will give two examples of different artists and how their sounds differ within their own repertoires and with each other. Components of a Song: Rhythm - The rhythm section of a song is the part that controls the tempo, timing and duration of a song. It’s essentially an arrangement of sounds and silences, with certain sounds more pronounced than others.
Distinctively visual utilise various techniques to convey significant ideas to their audience. A text is constituted to be distinctively visual through the images created and response gained from the audience, by exploring the idea that everything within a text has been deliberately placed there by the composer for a reason, this could be to extend or to challenge our understanding of important concepts or to get the viewer to act these out. The composer does this through the use of visual techniques such as flashbacks, flash-forwards, filters and camera angles. This is evident in ’Run Lola Run’ by Tom Tykwer and ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ by Danny Boyle Tom Tykwer’s film Run Lola Run, created in 1998, is a movie about love, determination, and fate. It is a continuous journey about a girl by the name of Lola who is involved in some dangerous business with her boyfriend Manni.
Composers throughout the ages have used distinctive voices for a number of things. To raise awareness on a certain issue, to give the audience a sense of belonging and intimacy on some level with the character, the list goes on. Similarly, the composers of the texts ‘The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender’ and ‘Weapons Training’ shape our perceptions of the world, via the distinctive voices of their characters, to help effectively communicate their own thoughts, beliefs and perhaps even morals. Marele Day, author of "The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender" shows a prime example of this, by using her characters Claudia Valentine and Harry Lavender as mediums in which to voice her opinions by basing certain traits of their characteristics upon her own beliefs, most notably sexism and the search for truth. This in turn effectively conveys her perceptions to the readers, and allows them to compare and challenge their own perceptions of society and the world.
Composers rely on memory to persuade responders to view history in a particular light. To what extent do you agree with this statement? Our perception of history is dependent upon a combination of events, personalities and situations. In this sense, it can be seen as a misleading impression of reality when the truth becomes distorted by our memories. This notion is evident in Stephen Frears’ film “The Queen”, the documentary “Pompeii: the Last Day” by Peter Nicholson and the novel “Mao’s Last Dancer” by Li Cunxin as all three composers rely on memory to represent a fusion of fact and fiction which ultimately influences our memory to view history in a particular light.
Composer use distinctively visual images to convey their own specific purpose. Each composer has their own purpose and they communicate through the use of imagery. Imagery can be used to create an experience, as images can be a more powerful medium to express an experience. The composers of the novel Maestro (Peter Goldsworthy) BODY The novel Maestro, by Peter Goldsworthy conveys the notion that words are not enough, thus imagery is used to construct experiences in the readers mind. Goldsworthy uses imagery to create the settings of the novel and the development of characters.
Express characters feelings. Peter Goldsworthy’s 1989 retrospective narrative ‘Maestro’ explores the importance of music in the novel and the relationships it binds between the protagonist Paul Crabbe and the people in his life, and also how some way music can change a person’s life. An adult Paul narrates his development throughout with the understanding of how music brings people and their lives together ‘music is another glue’. Goldsworthy explores how music plays a role in Maestro. He explores the deep love of music throughout the novel and the bonds it creates with relationships between characters, also importantly how music provided another chance for Keller to live, the way music forms a love hate relationship between characters in the novel, and finally the way music expresses character’s feelings.
Composers uses distinctively visual elements to provoke a specific response from their audience. The visual elements draw the audience to visually and emotionally engage with the texts. This allows us to see or imagine in our own mind what's happening, and get affected by the views of the text, this allows you to remember, and change your own views on those who are isolated or outcasts of society. In both the play 'Gary's house', and poem 'metho drinker', distinctively visual techniques provoke to question ourselves and what we believe about homeless, isolated or poor people. The experience of distinctively visual in this sense in confronting.
The experience created through language establishes a uniquely graphic story that initiates a personal response to society. Thus, our and understandings of society can be enhanced and extracted through elements of distinctively visual. Many composers use various techniques to shape our individual perception and interpretation through the experiences and opinions of others. Through the hardship of war, sexism and the importance of relationships, this notion is depicted within John Misto’s play The Shoe-Horn Sonata and the related poetry Vergissmeinnict by Keith Douglas which demonstrates the hardships of war, Suburban Sonnet by Gwen Harwood which demonstrates sexism and South of My Days by Judith Wright. A common occurrence
However each perspective is to address the disorder and disease. Each perspective will also address the human behavior from different viewpoints. The diversity, divisions, and subtopics will have different affects on other disciplines. Lifespan development and abnormal psychology will not only affect other disciplines and fields of psychology, but neuroscience ad education as well (Hansell & Damour, 2008). The diversity between psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral shows the psychological views with the goal to resolve human conflict and improve one’s quality of life.
They were also delivering messages in musical code. There was the public transcript and the hidden transcript. In the face of domination, subordinate people must wear masks to conceal their true thoughts and identities. Although, music has its own distinctive language. There is a language of musical sounds as well as a language of musical elements.