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Rhythm in Buckley’s Hallelujah is pretty consistent through most of the song. The majority of the song is an ABAB rhythm, with a little variation in the climax of the verse. The beginning starts with the electric guitar doing a variation of the rhythm, and even has some harmony in it. The verses and chorusContinue reading “Rhythm in Hallelujah”

            The form in Hallelujah is fairly cut in dry, though Buckley does do quite a bit of improvisation which complicates it. It opens with the first verse “I heard there was a secret cord…” which then goes into the chorus “hallelujah, hallelujah.” It goes into the second verse “well your faith was strong…” andContinue reading “The Form of Hallelujah”

I can only ever dream of having the talents of Joey Alexander. He has such a gift the music just comes so naturally to him. I think this kind of natural talent happens so very rarely, though I don’t think you can measure talent because all people have had different opportunities in their lives. Joey’sContinue reading “Joey Alexander”

I searched Mozart pieces on YouTube to find a video titled The Marriage of Figaro, so listened to it. I liked it a lot compared to other classical, orchestral music we’ve listened to. It had so many different melodies, and dynamics which makes it so light-hearted, and fun to listen to. I then went backContinue reading “Wolfgang Mozart”

I like both these examples of music a lot! I am heavily involve with theater today, and have been for many years. I have seen rent before, so it was exciting to get to listen to a song I had heard before and was very familiar with. The Musetta’s Waltz reminded me of the kindContinue reading “Vibrato in Musetta’s Waltz, and Seasons Of Love”

The dynamic changes is Hallelujah aren’t super dramatic, but they are certainly there. While Buckley is singing there aren’t many dynamic changes until the words are more dramatic and the melody gets higher. The music gets louder as the song gets more dramatic. During the guitar solos in the songs there quite a few moreContinue reading “Dynamics and Timbre in Hallelujah”

There’s a very obvious, well known word-text relationship in this song. When Buckley says “it goes like this, the fourth the fifth, the minor fall, and the major lift,” the music follows him. It follows him to the fourth and the fifth, and falls to the minor with the words, and the major with theContinue reading “The word-music relationship to Hallelujah”

I enjoyed both pieces very much. They were fun and light hearted compared to some of the other songs we’ve listened to and I’m really starting to enjoy listening to polyphonic texture. I think the words help slightly with the humor in these pieces, but I’ve found that seeing them sing almost adds to theContinue reading “The Cricket and Il est bel et bon”

The style of this song is quite different from most songs that are very popular nowadays, and has a very different message from many songs today. The first word that comes to my mind when thinking about the melody of this song is legato, its very drawn out and soothing to the ears. It’s aContinue reading “Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley”

I didn’t love the Eagle Dance video a whole lot. I think different cultures and different traditions are fascinating and I love learning about them, I just personally didn’t like how it sounded. It was really loud and sounded more like shouting than singing to me, and I could tell they didn’t have any cutContinue reading “The Eagle Dance, and Bobby McFerrin”