Literary Elements of Amazing Grace Yavine J Brewer ENG125 Introduction To Literature Shayla Gordon Mar 05, 2012 Amazing Poetry is an expression of the human spirit (Clugston, 2010). Poetry can be expressed in many forms. Some poems are created to a rhythm, some are created for spoken word such as they do at coffee shops or night clubs and in this particular poem it can be put into song. “Amazing Grace “was a poem written by John Newton and published in 1779. (Turner, 2002) This poem was later converted to song and is now song in all Christian churches worldwide.
(Armenta) Billings was known for writing his own texts and broke from colonial New England tradition and used the psalms verses for many of the lyrics of his hymns. He also introduced the use of pitch pipes and cello as tools to help with the intonation of church choirs. Billings also organized a singing class in 1774 which evolved in 1986 into the Stoughton Musical Society. (Columbia University Press) Two of his most popular sacred compositions include When Jesus Wept and the anthem David's Lamentation. (Deibel) In addition to the hymns, he also composed 51 fuging tunes, 4 canons and 52 anthems and set-pieces, and patriotic tunes.
Cyclical Literature in early19th Century A song cycle is a group of songs designed to perform in a sequence during classical music. All of the songs are by the same composer and often use words from the same poet, lyricist, or relating a story. Each song sang separately, but the composer imagined that they would be performed together as one work. They are for solo voice and piano accompaniment, however, they also can be without accompaniment or instruments. It started before the Romantic period, but it become popular with German composers of the nineteenth century.
When Gilmour joined, he took much of his guitar sound from the sonic palette used for The Beatle’s The White Album. He used the arpeggios of Dear Prudence and You Never Give Me Money as jumping off points for his own playing, particularly on the tracks Any Colour you Like and Eclipse from Dark Side of the Moon. Roger Walters was a big fan of John Lennon, who took inspiration from the confessional song writing style of Lennon’s 1970 Plastic Ono Band. Possibly the biggest influence on the recording of Dark Side of the
The poem had to appeal to Anglo-Saxons and his fellow Christians precisely because they were attempting to merge their own beliefs and at times during the poem those beliefs appear to amalgamate. Actions and events will expose both beliefs as they appear distinct from each other throughout the story. The Christian influences were combined with early folklore and the heroic legends of the German tribes. As Christianity and paganism are intertwined in the poem Beowulf reveals both Christian and pagan influences. Therefore, it would be understandable to suggest that the original pagan scop, who sang of this epic poem, was influenced by Christian beliefs but then a Christian monk finally put it on paper.
Sherman Alexie imaginatively mixes narrative, newspaper excerpts, songs, journal entries, visions, radio interviews, and dreams to explore the effects of Christianity on Native Americans in the late twentieth century. In addition, he examines the impact of cultural assimilation on the relationships between Indian women and Indian men. Reservation Blues is a painful, humorous, and ultimately redemptive symphony about God and indifference, faith and alcoholism, family and hunger, sex and death. From The Oxford Companion to English Literature – a definition of magical realism: Magic realist novels and stories have, typically, a strong narrative drive, in which the recognizably realistic merges with the unexpected and the inexplicable and in which elements of dreams, fairy story, or mythology combine with the everyday, often in a mosaic or kaleidoscopic pattern of refraction and recurrence. The page numbers in the Study Guide refer to the Warner Books Paperback Edition, 1996 Chapter 1 – Reservation Blues Reservation
Jeff Buckley – ‘Grace’ ‘Grace’ comes from the album ‘Grace’ released in 1994. A few other tracks from the album- ‘Hallelujah’, ‘Lilac Wine’, ‘Last Goodbye’ and ‘Eternal Life’ ‘Grace’ is a rock Ballard – a song about love in a slow temp. Introduction -Instrumental Verse 1-Voice Chorus-Voice – ‘wait in the fire’ Introduction Repeated Verse 2-Voice Chorus 2-Voice – ‘wait in the fire’ Bridge -Vocalisation Introduction –Instrumentation Verse 3-Voice Instrumentation and Texture * Uses guitars, bass, synth, strings and drum kit. * The guitars use DROP D tuning * The guitars and drums play all the way through * The other instruments are used to add effects or to thicken the texture * The texture thins as the song goes on Use of Technology * Modulation on the synthesiser at the start of the song * Distortion on the guitars, to intensify * Overdubbing on the guitar parts, which creates a thicker sound * Extra vocal parts in the bridge, produced by overdubbing * Equalisation in the final verse, which is used to lower frequencies of Buckley’s voice Tonality and Harmony * The song is in Eminor, but the tonality is often ambiguous – eg: the into used the chord of D even though the key is Em * The harmony is unusual for a rock song because it doesn’t use standard chord progressions * Many chords are chromatic and move in parallel motion e.g. F – Em – Eb – in the chorus * Some of the harmonies are very dissonant.
In this essay I will be comparing “Love Me Do” – (1962) – by The Beatles with “Breathe” – (1972) – by Pink Floyd, displaying the use of melody and harmony used in each song in contrast with one another. The instrumentation varies significantly between both songs - and indeed between both bands altogether – which has a direct effect on the harmonies and melodic devices that could be used in each song because of the different ranges in the specific instruments. Examples of this in “Love Me Do” is John Lennon’s use of a chromatic harmonica, which is capable of playing twelve notes of the Western Chromatic scale, and Lennon played the harmonica introduction to this song in diatonic C; however in “Breathe” (Slide Guitar and Organ) the instrumentation lends itself to new time signatures and utilises the technical advances in recording at that time. Pink Floyd’s music was (is) far more elaborate than that of The Beatles, as the structure of the chorus suggests that music is the only release from daily noise and day-to-day life. The tempo is quite slow (which is typical of Pink Floyd) in “Breathe” in common time (4/4) with the first four lines of music being based on the progression Em9 – A, and the last four lines of the song being based on the more vivid chord progression CMaj7 – Bm – F – G – Dm7 .
A few of their well-known songs are “I Write Sins Not Tragedies”, “Miss Jackson”, and “This is Gospel”. Many of their songs have a deeper meaning than just what the lyrics convey. One of Panic! At the Disco’s singles from their album Vices & Virtues is “The Ballad of Mona Lisa.” This song was released on February 1, 2011. It is about Brendon Urie’s inner conflicts, and the fight inside him.
English – Poetry Seminar Good afternoon, in this seminar I will be discussing how the band “The Black Eyed Peas” has used a whole range of different poetic techniques in their world wide hit ‘Where is the Love?’, such as similes, atmosphere, rhyme, assonance, metaphors, ballad, climax, repetition, rhetorical questions, mood and imagery to create and establish reader positioning. More aspects of the song including mood, discourse and themes will also be addressed. The Song was written by Will.i.am, Taboo, Apl.de.ap and Ron Fair. Will.i.am and Ron Fair also co-produced the song. Shortly after Christmas 2001, will.i.am created a loop and a guitar part that he liked.