MUSIC' GENRE - POP
This is a page everything about the music' genre POP.
The History of Pop
Pop is the short of the word "Popular".
Pop music was born in Napoli, Italy, in 1679 when Alessandro Scarlatti composed his first opera, or even earlier, when Francesco Provenzale coined the musical language that Scarlatti popularized: light, lively and catchy. They placed the emphasis on arias, clearly separated from the "recitativo", and grounded the arias on a strong sense of rhythm and melody. The Neapolitan passion for melodic singing, as defined by Alessandro Scarlatti's Griselda (1721), Giovanni Pergolesi's La Serva Padrona (1733), Giovannni Paisiello's Nina pazza per amore (1789), Domenico Cimarosa's Il Matrimonio Segreto (1792), dominated Western Europe for at least a century.Thanks to them, the opera became a simpler, funny, popular form of entertainment, and the style of singing evolved into a refined art of its own, the "bel canto".
The Italian audience loved to sing the arias of Gioacchino Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1816), Vincenzo Bellini's Norma (1831), Gaetano Doninzetti's Lucia di Lammermoor (1835). Few people could afford to go to the opera, but many people would hum and whistle and mimick the great opera singers. Even Giuseppe Verdi, not exactly the lightest of composers, was sung at barber shops and wedding parties. More arias were added to the repertory by Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana (1890), Ruggero Leoncavallo's "I Pagliacci" (1892), Giacomo Puccini's Madame Butterfly (1904). The opera was a complex work of art, but their catchy arias served the less "sophisticated" taste of the masses as well as any folk dance.
In the Early Days, the songs of music hall were the first real pop songs, written by professionals and widely performed for audiences.
Then things changed with the advent of recording, early in the 20th century. With that, music had the chance to be much more widely disseminated. Records, played at 78 rpm on wind-up gramophones, were relatively cheap.
The first major pop stars as such were the crooners of the 1930s and '40s. Bing Crosby sold millions of records, as did Frank Sinatra (arguably the first modern pop star, with screaming teenage female fans - the bobbysoxers), and in Britain, Al Bowly.
Rock'n'roll brought much more of that, and Elvis Presley became a global star, the biggest of the late 1950s and early 1960s. But he would find himself supplanted by the Beatles, who revolutionised pop by writing their own material, instigating a fashion that remains undiminished.
Pop music was born in Napoli, Italy, in 1679 when Alessandro Scarlatti composed his first opera, or even earlier, when Francesco Provenzale coined the musical language that Scarlatti popularized: light, lively and catchy. They placed the emphasis on arias, clearly separated from the "recitativo", and grounded the arias on a strong sense of rhythm and melody. The Neapolitan passion for melodic singing, as defined by Alessandro Scarlatti's Griselda (1721), Giovanni Pergolesi's La Serva Padrona (1733), Giovannni Paisiello's Nina pazza per amore (1789), Domenico Cimarosa's Il Matrimonio Segreto (1792), dominated Western Europe for at least a century.Thanks to them, the opera became a simpler, funny, popular form of entertainment, and the style of singing evolved into a refined art of its own, the "bel canto".
The Italian audience loved to sing the arias of Gioacchino Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1816), Vincenzo Bellini's Norma (1831), Gaetano Doninzetti's Lucia di Lammermoor (1835). Few people could afford to go to the opera, but many people would hum and whistle and mimick the great opera singers. Even Giuseppe Verdi, not exactly the lightest of composers, was sung at barber shops and wedding parties. More arias were added to the repertory by Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana (1890), Ruggero Leoncavallo's "I Pagliacci" (1892), Giacomo Puccini's Madame Butterfly (1904). The opera was a complex work of art, but their catchy arias served the less "sophisticated" taste of the masses as well as any folk dance.
In the Early Days, the songs of music hall were the first real pop songs, written by professionals and widely performed for audiences.
Then things changed with the advent of recording, early in the 20th century. With that, music had the chance to be much more widely disseminated. Records, played at 78 rpm on wind-up gramophones, were relatively cheap.
The first major pop stars as such were the crooners of the 1930s and '40s. Bing Crosby sold millions of records, as did Frank Sinatra (arguably the first modern pop star, with screaming teenage female fans - the bobbysoxers), and in Britain, Al Bowly.
Rock'n'roll brought much more of that, and Elvis Presley became a global star, the biggest of the late 1950s and early 1960s. But he would find himself supplanted by the Beatles, who revolutionised pop by writing their own material, instigating a fashion that remains undiminished.
Characteristics
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Artist - Whitney Houston
Whitney Houston is a popular Pop Artist. With her 5-octave voice, she started to sing when she was a teen (14). She was singing at the church.
Whitney Houston was born in Newark, New Jersey, USA, August 9, 1963. She has been a model, pop singer and R & B is also a record producer, songwriter and film stars. Houston started singing in the junior gospel choir New Jersey church. However, she is seriously working in Music World after often accompany her mother, Cissy when she performed in nightclubs. Houston then going to the music industry after her friend offered a recording contract. From those ways, Whitney Houston has started her career in the Music World. Its popularity then soared in 1980 and 1990. At that hits ranked first, the case with the single I Will Always Love You is the soundtrack of the movie The Bodyguard which won the Grammy for Album category in 1994. In the film The Bodyguard, a singer who has a five octave range voice that became his main character. Beginning of careers keaktrisan Houston debut film The Bodyguard. The world continues its role by starring in a film of them, Waiting to Exhale in 1995, and The Preacher's Wife in 1996. Any film that starred, the song also became the soundtrack. In the era of the 1980s, the pop diva is also the percussion break in the music industry the United States. Song bloody African-American women are entered into the MTV charts were still dominated by white rock singers. This achievement was followed by black singers. Houston is the only artist who seven times in a row ranked first on the Billboard Hot 100 with the hits Saving All My Love for You, How Will I Know, Greatest Love of All, I Want Somebody woth Danve, Did not We Almost Have It All, So Emotional, and Where Do Broken Hearts Go. Achievements that made him broke the record of The Beatles and the Bee Gees. |
Videos
These are the links to watch some Pop' music videos.
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