Sampling works from different artist is not a foreign concept in today’s music, especially in the hip-hop industry. It is not uncommon for artists to take even classical music and incorporate it into the melodies of their songs. This is exactly what rapper Nasir Jones, Nas, did in 2003. He released the song “I Can,” the first single from his album, God’s Son, an inspirational song written to inspire inner-city youth. Its lyrics are positive as it encourages the youth to stay drug free and pursue their dreams. The lyrics also detail various events in African history. Jones samples “Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor,” or “Für Elise” as it’s more commonly known, by Ludwig van Beethoven. It’s one of Beethoven most recognizable pieces and one of his most popular works. “Für Elise” is referred to as a bagatelle because it carries a light, positive character that also has a mellow tone. The word bagatelle is actually defined as “a short …show more content…
“Für Elise” uses the concept of “poco moto,” which means that the piece invokes the sensation of moving by changing the tempo in different movements. Meanwhile, “I Can,” because it uses only one portion of “Für Elise,” does not change tempo during the duration of the song. Obviously, Nas’ song is a vocal performance and while Beethoven’s is strictly instrumental. Because of the fact that these two songs were written 200 years apart from each other, Nas is able to utilize an instrument that Beethoven doesn’t have to his advantage. That instrument is the Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer also known simply as the 808. The 808, even though it doesn’t sound like an actual drum kit, is what gives most hip-hop songs the rhythm and beat that makes it’s listeners want to bob their head and actually enjoy the song. Beethoven’s piece was written originally for the piano and did not have any percussion elements. You appreciate the smooth melodies and soothing tone of a Beethoven
The Wiz is a musical/movie released in 1978 that was an adaptation of the popular film “Wizard of Oz”. It included several very popular stars of the time, which were Diana Ross, Michael Jackson and Nipsey Russell. The movie set place in New York City where the main character, Dorothy, suddenly is swept by a tornado in the middle of a snowstorm. She later then found herself lost in a city she had no clue about and curious as to how she could return home. After meeting 3 other characters during her journey that share similarities, they all embarked on a trip to OZ to fix each of their problems. Throughout the movie characters apply their own soundtrack through singing songs in harmony that compliment the mood of each scene.
Arnold Schoenberg "broke down the traditional tonal system and invented a new way of organizing music" with the concepts of "twelve-tone music," "Emancipation of the dissonance" and "equal rights of pitches." He persisted his sense of tonality through his life. Pierrot Lunaire consists of musical settings of 21 poems about the character and set for voice, flute, clarinet, cello, violin, and piano. He took "atonality to never before heard places." Igor Stravinsky was a primary tonal composer with an anti-romantic attitude who sought to extend musical ambiguity as far as possible, while remaining within the tonal system. He was an objectivist who treated everything in composition including emotion as object. His work The Rite of Spring has highly
COURSEWORK FOR CONTRACT LAW (MUSIC*) *On what basis does the inclusion of samples of a recording made by *Pink Floyd constitute an infringement of copyright? In civil law regarding copyright, there are two types of infringement; primary and secondary. Primary is concerned with the unauthorised use of copyrighted works and secondary would involve the dealing or making commercial use of such infringing copies. In the music industry, an infringement of copyright often consists of an existing piece of music being used by an artist without permission from the person or company who own the rights to the original music or recorded sound. This is exactly what has happened with Alexei Duff. He has used two samples from two Pink Floyd tracks and did not get permission from the appropriate copyright owners. If found guilty in court, this would be regarded as primary infringement. There is a lot of confusion about sampling in the music industry. Several think that if only a small fraction of a piece of music is sampled, whether it is a few notes or a few seconds, then it does not need to be cleared for use however this is not the case. The 1988 Copyright Act says that for an infringement of copyright to have taken place, the sample used must be of a substantial part. This means that it is the quality rather than the quantity of the sample used which determines if an infringement of copyright has occurred. In the case of Alexie Duff, one of his tracks uses a ten second sample extracted from the song “Dark side of the moon” and the sample is looped throughout the track entire. This means that the sample substantially contributes to the overall piece of music created by the artist and as the sample has not been cleared, an infringement of ...
Hip hop has so many subgenres that preach different messages to the listeners. Artists are inspired to sing according to what they experienced when growing up, or what they thought should be done to address a particular issue.
Rap artists are still faced with numerous lawsuits despite taking care to avoid infringement. Jay-Z’s ‘Big Pimpin’ was “accused of using the flute melody from Baligh Hamdi’s 1957 Egyptian love ballad, ‘Khosara Khosara’” (Smith, 2015, para. 2). However, Jay-Z claimed to have successfully gone through all the proper procedures and licensing to be able to use the sample (Campbell, 2015, para. 6). Hamdi’s nephew, Osama Ahmed Fahmy, argued that Jay-Z should have “asked the family’s permission too, and that they purposefully avoided doing so because they knew it would [not] be granted due to Big Pimpin’s ‘vulgar’ and ‘risqué’ lyrics” (Smith, 2015, para. 5). The judge had ruled that the lyrics are irrelevant to the case and that by specifically using
People are not usually informed about what they can and cannot do with an Artists music, even Artists themselves. Fair use is usually determined by the purpose and nature of product along with the parts of the song they are using in comparison to the work itself (Drummond). There are three types of fair use: nominative, comparative advertising, and parody. Nominative fair use is the ability to use a trademark to compare or help describe another product. Comparative Advertising states that the product or service being compare is the same or at least similar to the other product or service. Lastly Parodies are funny exaggerations of entertainment that has already been established. This fair use type seems to be the most controversial (Celedonia and Doyle)
Native Americans have an interesting backstory and culture. No matter what the Caucasians did to them, they never lost their unique culture. There were many different organisms and objects that are included in that culture. A great amount of them centered around nature and the Earth. Three major influences on the Native American culture would be the plants, animals, and the spirits they worshipped.
The style of cool Jazz and typical Baroque music have many similar musical traits. The two songs that are going to be looked at here are “So What” by Miles Davis and Bach’s “Brandenburg concerto No. 5.”
One crucial aspect to have a full analysis in my paper is to understand how the sound and use of sampling, has changed over the years. In her book “Sampling the 1970s in Hip-hop” Joanna Demers writes about how sampling has been a way to preserve black identity in hip-hop. By using samples from past African American music, producers can make a lineage between hip-hop and its predecessors. This book details sampling before things such as strict copyright law became commonplace, so there will be a unique perspective to the music industry then. By using this book my paper can better understand where we were, and how the music changed to get to today.
Many of the people involved with creating rap music were trained in maintaining new technologies for people with money to afford them. These new technologies were put to use in hip hop culture as primary tools for the creation of rap music that included original black culture, “This advanced technology has not been straightforwardly adopted; it has been significantly revised in ways that are in keeping with long-standing black cultural priorities, particularly regarding approaches to sound organization” (Rose, 63). Digital samplers played a key role in the development of rap music, but they often gained legal attention. DJ’s would often mix and match different pieces of music together to create a rhythm, but this often violated copyright laws and posed questioning to the legal boundaries of using musical property and phrases. These samplers helped formulate beats of songs that were hybrids from multiple sources of music. The rhythms and sounds that were created from this new sampling technology were consistent with the historic narratives of Afro-diasporic
Often in hip-hop/rap and R&B, there's this cute thing called sampling that happens, where portions of a song by someone else are mixed in. When this is done, the song and its original writers typically have to be cited for legality's sake (e.g., "This song contains replayed elements from 'You Tried It' by Tamar Braxton"). Those few of us who still buy physical copies
It begins with a free form Jazz piece with sparse instrumentation, mainly supported by a saxophone. Along side the light musical accompaniment is very prominent sound effect which helps the view connect the first act of this piece the jail house. As the very dark lighting scene is lit there are a few jail house round lights which are a soft orange which I believe tie into the theme of fire and passion which I'll dive into more as we walk through the performance. The sound of prison ankle chains is played as the lights focus on the five people walking towards the microphone, the first of which being of course Kendrick Lamar. One thing I found incredibly interesting as a sound person was the fact that a wireless microphone was placed on a microphone stand which is obviously quite redundant. I quickly realised this could very well be for artist purposes as Kendrick wraps his cuffed has over the mic stand which could be symbolic of the enslavement of the music industry to the artist. A discussion he has openly had with the community before. Kendrick hesitantly begins to rap the song “Blacker The Berry” It is important to note the musical accompaniment is not the original music that supports this work but a complete rework to build tension and anticipation for what is about to happen. The band begins to link up and there a strong stabs by the guitars,
Calixta and Alce, the two main characters in the short story “The Storm” by Kate Chopin, are sexual, mature, and knowing adults. By having them discover amazing sex outside their marriages, they return to their own marriages renewed. Chopin openly condones adultery due to the fact that the characters are not punished and in the end “everyone was happy” (paragraph 40) . A common theme of fresh sexuality and desire is seen in this story though symbols and other literary elements. Kate Chopin is an American author that wrote short stories and novels in the 20th century.
Tchaikovsky is one of the most popular of all composers. The reasons are several and understandable. His music is extremely tuneful, opulently and colourfully scored, and filled with emotional passion. Undoubtedly the emotional temperature of the music reflected the composer's nature. He was afflicted by both repressed homosexuality and by the tendency to extreme fluctuations between ecstasy and depression. Tchaikovsky was neurotic and deeply sensitive, and his life was often painful, but through the agony shone a genius that created some of the most beautiful of all romantic melodies. With his rich gifts for melody and special flair for writing memorable dance tunes, with his ready response to the atmosphere of a theatrical situation and his masterly orchestration, Tchaikovsky was ideally equipped as a ballet composer. His delightful fairy-tale ballets, Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker are performed more than any other ballets. Swan Lake, Tchaikovsky's first ballet, was commissioned by the Imperial Theatres in Moscow in 1875. He used some music from a little domestic ballet of the same title, composed for his sister Alexandra's children in 1871.
To represent the wild, I chose a sheet of music because both depend on basic patterns to create the complexity present in both the wild and music. For instance, in music, a major scale always follows a pattern of “whole-whole-half-whole-whole-whole-half” in terms of distance from one note to the next. Even though a variety of major scales exist and have distinct differences in sound, each major scale follows the same pattern, from the basic C major scale to the more challenging F-sharp major scale. The same applies in the wild between the varying types of organisms. Despite the fact that they may not look, act, or live in the same habitat, all follows the same life cycle. All organisms are born and will die, no matter if they are a dandelion,