![]() When i listen this song it reminds me of tribal/ cultural singing off of a discover channel episode. ![]() ![]() If you listen to the song for the first 22 seconds its just the singer (Sully Erna) singing on his own singing which creates a single melody line. Now this bring us onto the next style of music Monophonic and this means a single melody line without anything accompanying it for example a single person singing a melody line with no instruments playing along with the singer just like in the song I’ve linked above called Voodoo by Godsmack. If you listen to all of the song a whole string sections comes into the mix of the song mainly in the chorus and the outro to give the song the amount of push it needs to show this is the chorus not a verse but the same thing is happening like the other instruments the strings are accompanying the melody line as 3:02 the song progresses the guitar plays a solo that acts like a contrapuntal device against the voice which gives a polyphonic effect by acting as a secondary counter-melody. As the song progresses the guitar comes in bringing another sound to the song but stays on the melody line of Miley’s voice so what is being show here is that the melody is the main part of this song and the instruments are accompanying her to create a fuller melody line. So the first style I’ve chosen to talk about is Homophonic which is one melody line played at a time but played by multiple instruments, So i have chosen Miley Cyrus The climb ( I know its a bit sad but its a perfect example) as the song starts with the Keyboard/ Piano playing Miley starts to sing and the way she sings isn’t a whole new melody it stays with the melody. It's just easier to “get”.Today im going to chose 3 songs which is an example of one of the three styles of music. I believe that is why most of the music we hear today is homophonic in nature. The music industry in a sense has killed the art of songwriting with the need to make money being more important than the art itself. If it takes the listener more than once to “get” a song, it's probably not going to sell. Today, especially when anything can be created in a studio, in most cases the average listener has a very short attention span. As music became more accessible for mass production popular music was born. ![]() With this focus on the delivery of the vocal and it's message, folk music has disregarded the need for polyphony in most cases because it takes the listener away from focusing on the singer. When they write the song, most of them simply start off singing over a single acoustic guitar and as the song is built in the studio other instruments are added to create the “bed” underneath the dominant vocal. Most folk singers simply just sing over an acoustic guitar to tell a story. Folk songwriters write a song with an emphasis on the message being delivered in the vocal. While all of these styles can be found in modern music we find that homophonic music is the norm because of it's roots in Folk Music. ![]()
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