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Music Analysis Guide: Analyzing and Comparing Song Lyrics and Elements, Exercises of Music

Music

A guide for students to analyze and compare two songs from different periods, focusing on theme, style, historical and technological context, lyrics, rhythm, melody, timbre, dynamics, texture, harmony, genre, and ostinato. Students are encouraged to examine the lyrics for favorite parts, connections, personalization, and evaluation, as well as identify the senses used, reasons for the songwriter's inspiration, and the song's theme.

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Music analysis guide for students
Summary
You will analyze and compare two songs from different periods, examining theme, style, and
historical and technological context.
The lyrics (Language)
1. What did you like about the song's words? What were your favourite parts? Why?
(Critical thinking)
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2. Are the song's words like the words to any other song that you know? How are they
similar or different? (Connections)
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3. Is there anything in the song that reminds you of something in your own life?
(Personalization)
_____________________________________________________________________
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4. Do you find any of the words or sentences interesting? Confusing? Unusual? (Style)
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
5. Did the songwriter include images that you find funny? Scary? Old-fashioned?
Embarrassing? (Evaluation)
_____________________________________________________________________
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Music analysis guide for students

Summary

You will analyze and compare two songs from different periods, examining theme, style, and historical and technological context.

The lyrics (Language)

  1. What did you like about the song's words? What were your favourite parts? Why? (Critical thinking)
  1. Are the song's words like the words to any other song that you know? How are they similar or different? (Connections)
  1. Is there anything in the song that reminds you of something in your own life? (Personalization)
  1. Do you find any of the words or sentences interesting? Confusing? Unusual? (Style)
  1. Did the songwriter include images that you find funny? Scary? Old-fashioned? Embarrassing? (Evaluation)
  1. What senses does the songwriter use in this song? Sight? Smell? Hearing? Taste? Touch? (Style)
  1. Why do you think the songwriter wrote this song? (Inference)
  1. What is this song about? (Theme)

The elements of music

Rhythm is the repeated movement of sounds through time. In songs, the words usually match the rhythm. Everything we sing or say has a rhythm. For example, try singing or saying a lullaby, nursery rhyme, skipping song or rap.

Beat, accent and tempo are all part of rhythm.  Beat is the regular pulse (the ticking of a clock, the sound of a car's windshield wipers).  Accent is where the strongest emphasis is placed as in one , two, three, one , two, three.  Tempo is the speed: how fast or slow the music is.

Can you find the beat through clapping? Can you find the accent? What happens when you change the tempo?

Melody is the tune. The tune is made up of musical notes or pitches that make up a pattern. When you add words to a melody, it becomes a song. Notes can be high, low or in-between. Their height is called the pitch.

Pitch determines the height of a note in relation to the others around it, which may be higher or lower.

What words would you use to describe the melody or tune of this music?

Complete a chart of similarities and differences between the two songs. For each similarity or difference, try to think of reasons these elements have remained the same or changed.

Similarities Differences