作文The power of music

作文The power of music
作文The power of music

作文The power of music
"The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument." —William Matthews A then,is for "Are," as in,Are you sure that's rock?In this essay you'll find references to Jazz; there's Pop on the way,too,and some folks you might call Folk.There's going to be some Hip-Hop as well.This blurring of boundaries,I think,is essential.Pound's trinity of pattern-expectation-surprise fits many a form,and rock,in terms of expression and influence,is no exception.Think of it as a genre of confluence,one big kick-ass prose-poem.Country,R&B,and Soul are all part of the pantheon,either through influence or inclusion or bald theft.I think of The Bad Plus,my new favorite Jazz trio,deft musicians all,original composers and pure fans of music,evident in works that pay homage to both jazz and rock greats.Listen to their versions of Black Sabbath's "Iron Man," Blondie's "Heart of Glass," or the Pixies' "Velouria," and enjoy the art of genre blur.I suppose it's time to confess that I grew up listening to Fusion,that odd and much maligned amalgam of jazz and rock:think Miles Davis,Jeff Beck,Weather Report,Bill Bruford,Stanley Clarke,and even some of the pre-Grammy Carlos Santana.Purists might label Fusion as reverie with a pulse,but I liked its middle ground,its associative,lyric-less space ripe with a rock-bite and the modal improvisations of jazz.I appreciated the lack of language; even at 13 I knew that white space speaks louder than forced text.And I could even begin to put language in those spaces.Even today,when it comes to playing music as I write,I find that more ambient fusions of hip-hop,jazz,rock,pop,and r&b can allow me to enter a zone where music generates mood that influences language.Galaxie 500.Kruder and Dorfmeister.Morecheeba.Sterolab.Yo La Tengo.These bands are clearly very distant cousins of Led Zeppelin or Deep Purple.But even the classic rock pantheon has its influences.Zep's "Over the Hills and Far Away" and "Going to California"; U2's "Bad" and "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"; and the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy For the Devil" and "No Expectations" haven't directly led to poems,but they generate an ambiance that parallels the gut-check immersions of composition,of moods ripe for language.