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2nd Blog: "How Deep Is The Ocean?"

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  "How Deep Is The Ocean?"-Irving Berlin (performed by Bing Crosby)     The song I chose for this blog is "How Deep Is The Ocean". I chose this song because I thought it was very beautiful and I have always enjoyed listening to Bing Crosby. As a child, I even listened to him and loved his classical voice and music. He has such an amazing and very soothing voice. I think the song evokes an image of a loving, long lasting relationship that the artist feels. This is musically achieved by the beautiful melody in the background. The music and lyrics go well together; the song is very romantic. The target audience is somebody who is in a romantic relationship, maybe even somebody who is in a long distance relationship and is missing and thinking of their loved one. I believe this song falls under the first theme of the five themes that we have learned in class, which is the listening theme. This song has both a riff which is a repeated melodic idea and a hook which is a m

My First Listening Blog: "La Cumparsita"

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  "La Cumparsita"-Carlos Gardel After listening to this song, I felt that it shows the artist emotions through the lyrics as well as the way the guitar is being played. The strumming of the guitar is slow paced and goes along with the sad words that the artist is singing. When you listen to the song, you can hear a riff, which means it has a repeated melody. This song also identifies under the tango category which is very popular in the Latin American culture. I believe this song targets somebody who was once in a relationship and is trying to warn them against it to avoid a broken heart. My favorite part of the song is the guitar playing because I loved the melody. My least favorite part of the song is the over exaggeration  of the apparent break up of the relationship. I believe that when you are in a relationship and it ends, you will have bad days and at times may even feel like the world will end, but it will get better. The sun will shine, your friends will still love y

My First Musical Post

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  Hello, my name is Sara and... My favorite artist is... Fleetwood Mac   🎡 πŸŽΆπŸ•Ί The reasons why I like Fleetwood Mac: Their songs are catchy  and they have good messages behind them.