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The major types of listening from the article were; Appreciative listening (seeking certain information to appreciate), discriminative listening (interpreting and assigning meaning to words, not sounds), and comprehensive listening (interpretation of words and ideas). From the listening tablet, the melody is the aspect of composing music in concern with the arrangement of notes to make a better satisfying sequence. The form is the style of arranging the tunes. Timbre is the quality of the musical sound as clear from its intensity and pitch. The tempo is the speed play of music. Duration is music playtime. Volume is the degree of loudness of the music. The mood is the general atmosphere the music created. Song lyrics are the words that make up a song.
Sylvia Robinson was an African American musician, songwriter, and singer best known for founding the Sugar Hill Records, a hip-hop label. She was born in 1936 in New York and attended Irving high school, Manhattan until she was fourteen. Sylvia began recording music in 1950 as Little Sylvia (Smalarz, 2013). She teamed up with a guitarist from Kentucky, Mickey Backer, who taught her how to play guitar. They recorded ‘Love is Strange’ by Jody Williams, a single that reached number 11 on billboard pop chats. The track also topped RnB chats at the beginning of 1957.
Sylvia married Joseph Robinson after splitting up with Mickey and began her solo career as Sylvia Robbins. In 1978, the Robinsons founded Sugar Hill Records (Smalarz, 2013). They signed Big Bank, Master Gee, and Wonder Kid, and the result was a fifteen-minutes modified track from ‘Good Times.’ The song, ‘Rappers Delight’ hit number four on RnB hats and sold over eight million copies. Sylvia Robinson died at the age of seventy- five at Meadowlands hospital on September 29,2011, survived by three sons.
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Kelley, B. (n.d.). The Real Thing. Vimeo. https://vimeo.com/223044638
Smalarz, M. J. (2013). Robinson, Sylvia Vanterpool. African American Studies Center. https://doi.org/10.1093/acref/9780195301731.013.39492