Assighnment # 5 Song Deconstruction

Listening Phase 1

Tempo: Both songs move very fast.       

Source: The rhythm of both songs come from the drums.

Groove: Rock, Metal

Listening Phase 2

Instrumentation: Guitar, base and drums for both songs.

Structure/Organization: Each song uses reaping rhythms, with a solo act interjected in the middle.

Emotional Architecture: The songs both build and build until the end.

Listening Phase 3

Height: Terran up the night went higher and lower, while murlock mostly stayed high, but not as high as Terran up the night got.

With: Neither song really pans from left to right a great deal.

Depth: both songs use the same 4 instruments because both songs are done by the same band.

I enjoy both of these songs, created and played by a lesser known band which call themselves lv 80, ETC. both these songs are fast and rock, and are cleaver and quite entertaining to watch. The instruments used by the band are a drum set, a guitar, and two people playing on base guitars. The first song is the older of the two, “I am Murlock, I am Death”, and is really cleaver and quite funny, thou its would only be understood by individuals which have played warcraft. The second song, “Terran up the Night”, is their newer song which was written to go along with the release of Starcraft 2.   

                “I am Murlock, I am Death” is the shorter of the two songs, and it fallows a very simple rhythm lead by the drums. However the height of this song varies much greater than “Terran up the night.” The song uses a series of verses which it repeats 3 times through out the song, in between the verses are musical verses, or other sayings created by the artist. The song begins and ends with the sound a murlock makes, which I find to be halerous.

                “Terran up the Night” however, is a little softer than “I am Murlock” but does not change its height as frequently as the other song. This song also utilizes verses and a rhythm throughout the song, switching between a repeating phrase, a rhyme, and music without any word. “Terran up the Night” is more structured than “I am Murlcok, I am Death” and that is probably because murlock was made early in their musical carrier, while “Terran Up the Night” is one of their newer songs.

                Neither song utilizes a wide range of frequency and have very similar quality’s. I would say the pitch for both songs are about the same as well, however despite this both songs have about the same intensity of very intense. They are both very lovely songs but I have to say I like “Terran Up the Night” more than the other. I say that because it is more varied and more interesting than “I am Murlock, I am Death”.