One Word Analysis Essay

The music itself may just be a word, but if you look into the word ‘music’ carefully, there is more than that. Inside music, there are genres, styles, rhythm, lyrics, and so on. It is truly amazing how that one word implies a lot of things that it is hard to describe ‘music’ in a definite way. Every person has different feelings and their own taste to the music, and I think it is hard to find something that one word contains so much things and may have a lot of controversies over that word since there are so many different things that the word refers to. For this class, we have learned various styles of jazz with the explanation of different singers’ jazz songs. Before taking this class, I just thought the jazz was all about swing style; which is from New Orleans Jazz style with big bands and collective sounds. However, through this class, I realized that there is more than swing style, which are bebop, cool, hard bop, Chicago style and so on. It was interesting to see how different types there are inside one genre called ‘jazz’, when I thought jazz was already just one genre itself. Inside the jazz genre, there is a style called ‘bop’. Bop jazz was sometimes called as ‘bebop’, which is another style of jazz. It
It just has the rhythm that makes the person can enjoy the song enough. Also, I realized that in this song, Billie Holiday really took the lead of the song. She was leading all the other instruments, yet made the song into a perfect harmony. Also, the lyrics in the song is not a lot and have many repetitions, but the instruments really lead the song very well when there are no lyrics. In other words, when Billie Holiday is performing, she leads the song, but otherwise, the instruments leads the song. It is interesting for me since I have always thought it is either the singer or the instrument players who lead the music, not in both