Music Analysis and Comparison
My Heart Will Go On by Celine Dion
Title: My Heart Will Go On
Performer: Celine Dion
Genre: Pop
Web Address: www.popmusic.com
The song, which was sung by Celine Dion, is a classical one that describes how love should prevail between two people. The music, which she sang after the inspiration from her husband, is generally a love song. The song became a theme song for the movie Titanic, which was film in 1997. Dion says that the song didn’t have a crucial appeal to her but her husband convinced her to go one sing, and this shows that the song was out of inspiration from him, and this pushed her to go ahead and sing (Dion., 1997). This music is special to everyone who has heard it. First, it is because the song’s orchestra was built around it when she had sung it so many times before it was recorded for the last time before release. The song is considered as Dion’s primary song, and it has one of the greatest worldwide sales. My Heart Will Go On is a piece of music that was played in the final credits of Titanic, and its meaning is that Rose and Jack, the two major characters of the movie, would see each other again. The song is about love and death, loving someone you know you can never have again, and that is why it was in the movie because its moral lesson fits the theme of the movie. It is a timeless classic that will be heard in all the generations.
The song has one of the best features any song will have, especially how the musical instruments were played throughout the song. It begins with slowly playing stingers, but Oboe’s sound is also heard, which rises to form the lowest note to the highest one. This instrument dominates most parts of the song, except when Celine starts to sing. Stingers are played in the background too. Additional instruments are played too, and these try to thrill the whole environment when someone first listens to it. To make the song even better, the instruments are played with a slow tempo, and each accompanies almost the same notation to the end. Generally, every single one of the high notes sounds like they want to die down but they don’t. At some point, the pieces rise above while the artist raises her voice too. This tends to wake everyone’s instincts because of the high pitched sounds of the instruments. The song ends with the highest pitch, while Oboe’s sound is heard finalizing the last stanza.
Prelude Op. 28 No. 15 “Raindrop”
Title: Chopin- Raindrop Prelude
Performer: SPQ ROUSSEAU
Genre: Classical Romantic
Web address: Youtube.com
This musical piece is one of the 24 Chopin preludes. They often between five and seven minutes, but this is the longest of all. The prelude is usually noted for its repetition, and it appears throughout the piece, and it sounds like raindrops to many of the listeners. All of the pieces when George Sand and Chopin stayed in Mallorca in 1838. It is the therefore of the oldest renowned pieces to have been created.
Several features make this piece a special one. First, while Sand’s son was playing the piano one evening, after returning from Palms, he had a dream. He saw himself in a lake and was almost drowning. But heavy drops of cold water fell in his breast. When he tried to listen to those drops, he tried to deny the fact that the drops interpreted imitative rhythmic sounds, but wasn’t able to. Prelude rises on one’s mind and creates harmonic sounds whole one listens to the pieces.
The piece opens with a soft and serene theme but then changes to a special interlude in the minor. It has a dominating pedal that never ceases until the end of the piece. But some minors are repeated and can be hard through the opening section, and they become insistent. After this, the prelude ends with the repletion of the original theme. The minor, which is minor C, often affects one, which can be related to an oppressive dream. Minor D reenters and dispels the supposedly harsh nightmare in one’s mind. But it comes into one with the smiling and fresh dear of nature. This happens after the fears of the imaginations. The music generally plays with soft and slow tempos, while the generally conjunct motions throughout the play. Ideally, the effects manage to turn the falling notes into so-called ‘raindrops’. It is also unintentionally turned out to look somewhat Studio-Ghibli-esque. Therefore, it becomes a quite nice audio-visual experience.
Comparison
Both songs are played in soft tempos, and generally in low notes. But the two also rise to higher notes towards the end. Additionally, the two songs have the same themes of love, except that Prelude is played with only one instrument, which is a piano. Celine’s song is played with more than one instrument.
References
Dion, C. (1997). My heart will go on. Titanic: Music from the motion picture. Sony.