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Trap Music

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https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ibNmqXzN6BU/maxresdefault.jpg Tile of the Text: Trap Music Author: Shawn Setaro Title of the journal/publication: How trap music came to the rule world URL/WEB: https://www.complex.com/music/2018/02/how-trap-music-came-to-rule-the-world Main Idea:   What is Trap music? Trap music is a form/style of hip hop music. Trap music is everywhere.T fist emerged coming primarily from the south, a genre filled with a hard attitude that you can feel in the sound of the brass, triangle, triplet hi hats, loud kicks, snappy snares and low end 808 bass samples that are used when composing tracks. Evidence that supports the main idea: "From hip-hop to pop to EDM and beyond, the sound of trap music is everywhere. A cursory look at the Billboard charts—just this week Migos' Culture II went to No. 1—proves that.But what, if you had to explain it, is the sound of trap? What signifies “current” to someone listening to music today? The simplest answer...

Classical Music

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https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS3CckO4KED0Ru98fRQXng5XzHQVM1u6YRdHOjDNlD1ERJMGZLBhQ Title of the text: Music Notes: Support Classical Music Author: Carlton Wilkinson title of the journal/publication: academic.edu Url/web adress : https://www.academia.edu/11791856/Music_Notes_Support_classical_music Main idea: Argued that expecting highly skilled musicians to play for less than what could earn in other professions and for next to nothing in many causes- amount to magical economics. Evidences that support the main idea:  "If classical music can become popular, promoters will put on more concerts and need more musicians, and musicians will be paid more. The only other alternative that is some kind of subsidy, either corporate or government, which probably is already happening to some extent." "Musicians are expecting to have more income in their professions.They are talking about the travel expenses but yet their income is...

Rock Music

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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/qKbyAMQNNyVSSQfxWAwKbw2EDPoCaM44z7fQ3CY9-TZwQv1l3T-kdRiPFweb8YaFrQ Title o f the text:   The Origins and History of Rock Music Author/s:  Tim Grierson Title of journal/ publication:  liveaboutdotcom URL/ Web adress:  https://www.liveabout.com/what-is-rock-music-2898293 Main idea: What is rock music? Rock music has distorted and heavy rhythm. It is usually played by a band. Instruments is part of rock music that includes electric guitars, drums, and bass and a lyric sung by the vocalist. In rock music we need to have a contagious energy for it will drain us ones we heard and go along with it. There are many songwriters and band who are capable of doing a rock music here in the Philippines. Just like in pop music, it can also be used in different celebrations. Filipinos love to celebrate their country men achievement and they usually used this genre. They also used it when they have problems, they will let rock m...

Acoustic Music

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https://image.isu.pub/091125163314-d5955dfd23ca4bff874b79d7632351fd/jpg/page_1_thumb_large.jpg Title of the text : Acoustic Features Influence Musical Choices Across Multiple Genres Author/s: Michael D. Barone,1 Jotthi Bansal,1 and Matthew H. Woolhouse2 Title of the journal/publication: NCBI Url/web adress: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5495864/ Main idea: Acoustic features, musical preference, musical genre, music downloads, musical influence, music information retrieval. Evidence that support the main idea: "Based on a large behavioral dataset of music downloads, two analyses investigate whether the acoustic features of listeners' preferred musical genres influence their choice of tracks within non-preferred, secondary musical styles. Analysis 1 identifies feature distributions for pairs of genre-defined subgroups that are distinct. Using correlation analysis, these distributions are used to test the degree of similarity between subgro...

Modern Music

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https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pV9AyGsGR0Y/maxresdefault.jpg Title of the text: Modern music really does sound the same Author: Nick Collins Title of publication: The Telegraph URL/WEB Address: www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/9430338/Modern-music-really-does-sound-the-same.html Main idea: The skepticism about modern music is shared by many of the middle aged fans which found that today's hits really do all sound the same Evidences that supports the main idea: “The study was the first to conduct a large-scale measurement of "intrinsic loudness" or the volume a song is recorded at, which determines how loud it will sound comparedwith other song in particular setting on an amplifier” “It appeared to support long standing claims that the music industry is engaged in a "loudness war" in which volumes are gradually being increased.”

Pop in '90

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https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRE4K3Db7iMDdtTajL3BYisLJZziwEVgUYh7uamkSSvMqPVuy9CbA Title of the text: Pop in 90s: Everything for everyone Author: Eric Weisbard Title of publication: The New York Times                                                                                         URL/WEB Address:   www.nytimes.com/2000/04/30/arts/music-pop-in-the-90-s-everything-for-everyone.html Main idea: The 90s deserve to go down as the decade when the music industry opened its door to all comers. Open-mindedness, rather than any single sound, was its great contribution: a lesson in diversity. Evidences: “That for the first time in decades no one genre dominated. Rap and rhythm- and- blues make up a quarter of the name...

Soul Music

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http://www.southernmuseumofmusic.com/Spotlight/01-Genre/0-images/Soul-01.png Title of the text: Soul Music Author: Mark Edward Nero Title of journal/ publication : N / A URL/Web Address: https://www.liveabout.com/what-is-soul-music-2851218 Main idea: Soul Music is one of the genre of music that has the combination of rhythm and blues (R&B) and gospel music. It was popularized by the Africans-American composers and singers.  Evidence/s that support/s the main idea: "More than any other genre of popular American music, Soul is the result of the combination and merging of previous styles and substyles in the 1950s and 60s. Broadly speaking, the soul comes from a gospel (the sacred) and blues (the profane). Blues was mainly a musical style that praised the fleshly desire whereas gospel was more oriented toward spiritual inspiration." "Soul music ruled the black music charts throughout the 1960s, with artists such as Aretha Franklin and J...