All art is the same thing. It is to portray emotion and tell stories and records of what has happened, what will be seen, or in the imagination, and everything in between. I am currently in high school and have extra classes to study jazz. I am studying as a jazz guitarist. Jazz is in most cases an instrumental form of American music that sounds as if it is scatter to the modern day listener. In my personal opinion, the point of music is to make people feel something and sometimes with out having to say a word. It is to make people feel something by using a Universal language. A modern listener of most music, in most cases, is not even fully listening to the music. Lyrics mean can mean close to nothing and the music makes you feel usually only in one emotion. I am not saying this is a bad thing, I believe it is just as hard or harder to make something so simple portray an emotion. It is hard to make pop music applicable to the modern listener and make them relate with the new listening standards people have now. Pop music is its own art form and is completely different then the more complex type of music jazz. With jazz and classical on one end of the spectrum and pop on another, a general population can find a median in music that they can relate to. For jazz being the beautiful art it is and pop being the beautiful art it is, a good median is the genre of singer-songwriter. The music can make you feel an emotion and the Lyrics can tell a story and make you feel an emotion. The beautiful simplicity of the music and the beautiful lyrics can leave you in tears or posing life questions. The audience of this genre will listen because it makes them feel something and they can hear a story. In the book How to Read Literature Like a Professor, I believe Literature is not just written books, It occurs in lyrics to music as well. One of my current favorite singer songwriters is Butch Walker. Butch Walkers song “Fathers Day” is about his recent loss of his father and him experiencing fathers day without his dad, but he is being a dad himself. This beautiful, simple song uses devices that are mentioned in HTRLP.
I Made this diagram to show what topics Butch Walker used that related to the book.
This link talks about songwriting tips. Some of the tips deal with what is talked about in the bookhttp://www.musicbizacademy.com/articles/songwritingtips.htm
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