Taylor's Music Memoir

  Lets Travel Back To Japan In WW2! Music pieces that are included:  (1937)Umi Yukaba , composed by Kiyoshi Nobutoki, lyrics based on a choka poem by Otomo no Yakamochi. Origin : Japan         Umi Yukaba was a patriotic song that gained popularity during the world war two era, although the song has a very uplifting   melody it is   accompanied with a fluctuating range from high to low making the song very emotional, the rhythm also strikes high emotions being very unique and non repetitive. In comparison to a lot of the other Japanese war songs such as our next piece this one takes the repetitive nature along with the dark and brooding, then replaces it with happiness and uplifting which makes this song much more disturbing, it is easy to be fooled. The Japanese and lyrics written had darker intentions with this uplifting melody, as it was reported by Enemy In The Mirror that it was usually was sung before takeoff by a kamikaze suicide bomber. The lyrics read the following "if I

  Brief Explanation of Topic and Underlying Content Discussed.  I am going to be exploring and reporting on the birth of the synthesizer, this will include what instrument was it's earliest representation as well as the improvements made to create what we know today as techno music using this instrument. The first piece I am going to show you is a current example of the synthesizer, this is a sound most of you should recognize, this example is from the film Beverly Hills Cop released in 1984.   Axle F by Harold Faltermeyer:  Diving Into The History      The first representation of synthetic sound presents itself as early as 1922 as with the Theremin as reported by Philharmonie De Paris, a publisher in Google Arts and History, it is a musical device that takes extreme control in ones physical body in order to play the instrument correctly. According to Carolina Eyck who is a knowledgeable guide on the subject, it usually consists of a box with two antennas as to which the user moves

  StarWars Theme Song Analysis Today I am going to be writing about the StarWars theme song composed and conducted by the brilliant John Williams.       This piece is absolutely iconic, with it's uplifting energy given by the melody it really makes you hopeful for the protagonist, maybe even a new hope *wink wink* this melody really does do an amazing job at building as well as creating the excitement, it almost sets the direction for the mood while the other components are the building blocks. The low repeated sounds of silence and dips in the rhythm build so much tension and illuminate these musical hills as we listen and make the sounds way more exciting to the ears, the pitch of the extreme high and low tones combined with the rhythm work together in this odd way to create these low dips and high hills that keep us always guessing what is coming next and makes you feel the physical excitement the film is trying to spread even though you would think an emotional song like