Given what you have learned about rhythmic and other aspects of nonverbal communication in music, provide one suggestion regarding the class music video.

Given what you have learned about rhythmic and other aspects of nonverbal communication in music, provide one suggestion regarding the class music video.

According to Nathan Hesselink’s article called Rhythmic Play, Compositional Intent and Communication in Rock Music, Hesselink explains how artists create rhythm not only to set melody but to allow the listener to communicate with the artist and create a bond with the melody or song based on trust, respect and a sense of shared ownership (P.69).  All artists use rhythmic play because it sets the melody for each song and as mentioned above, creates a foundation and relationship between each listener and each song.  An example from Prince’s Purple Rain, the chorus where Prince sings “Purple Rain” because purple rain isn’t actual rain drops.  Purple rain is represented as the area where all people go on their way to Heaven.  Purple rain means more than just a chorus to listeners because it allows each listener to feel the sorrow of losing close ones and brings each listener comfort because as the song states, we will all be able to meet up with our loved ones in the afterworld.   Prince uses rhythmic play perfectly in Purple Rain because the soft and slower melody enables listeners to think and feel, connecting them to Prince’s lyrics.

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According to Jessica Phillips-Silver’s article called The Ecology of Entertainment Foundations of Coordinated Rhythmic Movement, “songs are created with synchronous chorusing which demonstrates the critical role of entertainment in the production of coordinated sound and movement” (P.10).  As both writers write about rhythmic movement, all artists understand that popular music incorporates rhythm, enabling listeners to feel emotions.

Given what Hasselink wrote about Rhythmic play, Prince affirms how listeners can connect with the lyrics and the artist in each song when the melody and lyrics align, making listeners feel emotions.  In Purple Rain, listeners feel sorrow and happiness as they think of the people they have lost in the past and also when they think about reconnecting with them in the afterlife.  According to Hasselink’s definition of rhythmic play, I believe almost all songs are created to allow their listeners to feel emotions.  I don’t believe melody creates a sense of emotion but lyrics and rhythmic play ensures brain activity by all listeners listening to lyrics in each song.

Given what I learned about Rhythmic play, I believe our class song called “With You” must use rhythmic play as listeners should hear the song and feel emotions.  As the song “with you” is a slower song about romance, I believe we should make sure to play the song as performed in the original as the artist created the listener to think about recent relationships.  My biggest suggestion is to ensure each listener a feeling of emotion to create a music video where there are two people acting out a relationship similar to Taylor Swift’s music videos.  By creating a film production showing two individuals thinking about each other would represent the true meaning of the song “with you”.