Stairway To Heaven Analysis
Byron Ambright
Music 1014 - Sec 008
Professor Peter Mercer-Taylor
18 October 2017
“Stairway to Heaven”
“Stairway to Heaven” is a masterpiece that was written by the band Led Zeppelin. Introduced in the 1970s, it shocked the world with its melody and lyrics and still influences the people that listen to it. “Stairway to Heaven” with its unique melody, powerful lyrics, and strong song structure, conveys to the listener a message about life and death.
The song starts out slowly with a single acoustic guitar playing very quietly. After a few bars, several wind instruments start to accompany the guitar to create a peaceful feeling that everything is calm. This lasts for about forty seconds before verse one starts with lead singer, Robert Plant. …show more content…
The chorus finishes and the third verse starts. Much like the second verse, the third verse is very direct about its message of death. This verse references the piper which is known to lead children to death with a tune that he plays. It goes on to say that a new day will come for those who resist the piper, but in the end we all die and crumble back to the earth where we came from.
Verse four talks more about life than death. It emphasizes that you always have a choice in life. It also says that even if you are on the wrong path now you still have time to change to the path that you actually want to be on. Immediately after verse four, the tempo picks up, drums are introduced and goes into a guitar solo …show more content…
This bridge sounds like nothing else in the song so far, t is upbeat and more hard rock than all the parts leading up to it. The bridge speaks of the end of one's life as it mentions the piper's tune. In this time in one's life everything will become blissful where it is one for all and all for one. This bridge also makes mention of the lady who is there and still things that everything is gold. The outro repeats how she is able to buy her way into heaven in a very dramatic way.
This song is consists of four verses, two choruses, a bridge, a guitar solo and an outro. The structure of the song orders them verse, chorus, verse, chorus, verse, verse, bridge, guitar solo then outro. However unlike most songs the versus and choruses are different from each other in different ways. The verses one and four are similar in structure containing nine lines each while verses two and three only have four lines
Music 1014 - Sec 008
Professor Peter Mercer-Taylor
18 October 2017
“Stairway to Heaven”
“Stairway to Heaven” is a masterpiece that was written by the band Led Zeppelin. Introduced in the 1970s, it shocked the world with its melody and lyrics and still influences the people that listen to it. “Stairway to Heaven” with its unique melody, powerful lyrics, and strong song structure, conveys to the listener a message about life and death.
The song starts out slowly with a single acoustic guitar playing very quietly. After a few bars, several wind instruments start to accompany the guitar to create a peaceful feeling that everything is calm. This lasts for about forty seconds before verse one starts with lead singer, Robert Plant. …show more content…
The chorus finishes and the third verse starts. Much like the second verse, the third verse is very direct about its message of death. This verse references the piper which is known to lead children to death with a tune that he plays. It goes on to say that a new day will come for those who resist the piper, but in the end we all die and crumble back to the earth where we came from.
Verse four talks more about life than death. It emphasizes that you always have a choice in life. It also says that even if you are on the wrong path now you still have time to change to the path that you actually want to be on. Immediately after verse four, the tempo picks up, drums are introduced and goes into a guitar solo …show more content…
This bridge sounds like nothing else in the song so far, t is upbeat and more hard rock than all the parts leading up to it. The bridge speaks of the end of one's life as it mentions the piper's tune. In this time in one's life everything will become blissful where it is one for all and all for one. This bridge also makes mention of the lady who is there and still things that everything is gold. The outro repeats how she is able to buy her way into heaven in a very dramatic way.
This song is consists of four verses, two choruses, a bridge, a guitar solo and an outro. The structure of the song orders them verse, chorus, verse, chorus, verse, verse, bridge, guitar solo then outro. However unlike most songs the versus and choruses are different from each other in different ways. The verses one and four are similar in structure containing nine lines each while verses two and three only have four lines