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DIPLOMA IN OFFICE
MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY
OM114

Introduction to Information Skills

IMD101
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“MUSIC”
♪ ROCK AND ROLL ♪
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Prepared for
Miss Nazahiyah Saad

Prepared by
Muhammad Azry Bin Mohd
2010449218
Raya

Muhamad Nazrin Bin Nordin 2010446574

Ezzri Daniel Bin Nordin 2010667548

Date of Submission
October 7, 2010

ABSTRACT
MUSIC
Music is a wonderful sound. Listening to the music is the good way to understands it. It is

also about heart and soul. Besides that, music can change the world. Many genre and

types of music exists in this world. Each one has their own personality. Good music will be

remembered forever. Voice is music too. Unique voices are very rare. Easy listening

music is such a therapy. Technology has made the music to be composed by using

computer. Music instruments also are the main elements of music.

KEYWORDS: Music, listening, soul, genre, personality, good music, therapy,

technology, music instruments, elements.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

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Alhamdulillah. Thanks to Allah SWT, who with His willing give us the opportunity to

complete this assignment which is bibliography on “Music”: Rock and Roll. This assignment

was prepared for Miss Nazahiyah Saad.

Firstly, we would like to express my deepest thanks to, Miss Nazahiyah Saad. We also want

to thanks the lecturers and staffs of Kolej Poly-Tech MARA (KPTM) for their cooperation

during us complete the assignment that had given valuable information, suggestions and

guidance in the compilation and preparation this assignment.

Deepest thanks and appreciation to our parents, family, special mate of mine, and others for

their cooperation, encouragement, constructive suggestion and full of support for the

assignment completion, from the beginning till the end. Also thanks to all of our friends and

everyone, those have been contributed by supporting our work and help myself during the

assignment progress till it is fully completed.

CONTENTS

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Abstract 2

Acknowledgement 3

Table of Content 4

Introduction

• Essay about Music: Rock and Roll 5

Bibliography
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• APA

• MLA 11
• Online Sources
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Conclusion 14

Appendices 15

INTRODUCTION

Music is an art and joy of sounds It is any pleasing or harmonies sounds that

made from voices or music instruments. To understand what music is, you will need to listen

to the music itself. No others way can help to understand it. In the meantime, music is also

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an idea. It is about people thought expressed through the music. Musician usually made a

song based on their environment, experiences or emotion. This is good because music will

be the voice of changes that make world a better home.

Type and genres of music is in a large number. It is include the classic and

modern music. Plus, the various nation of music around the world had increased the

number of music but every type of it has a different identity. Only the technical aspect of

music is the same, which are, theory, notation and tone.

Playing or creating music is such an excitement and self satisfaction. The

good music is from original ideas and has its own power. Musician built their names by this

way. Besides that, the good music will be remembered and played thousand times even it

just have a chance to play live at the bar.

Voice is music. Unique voices like tenor, soprano and bass voice is very

beautiful. The good singer has the ability to control their very own voice to make the

wonderful music and they need to play with their self emotion to give the soul to the song

they are singing. A vision is necessary to leading this. Melody, the most important and

useful feature of music is also important in music. Nice and simple melody might attract

people to listen to it. It is very relaxing music and a good therapy to our mind.

As we now leading to the future, music can be composed using computer. By

using software and application, the music easily can be created with the good technique.

One of the most well known producers in music computer is Nigel Goldrich.

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 Musicians always believe that music can change the world. They made the

music about peace, happiness and more. A lot of legendary musician and band shave a

special song that they dedicated to all people in the world so they change the world together.

Beside that, music instruments also play a main role in creating music. The

instrument was divided into two which is acoustic, traditional and modern instruments.

Acoustic, traditional instruments are acoustic guitar, bass, double bass, accordion, flute,

harmonica, bag pipe and many more. These instruments still make the better sounds

because it is original. In the meantime, modern, also known as, electronically instruments

are guitar, bass, turntables, electronic drums. It also plays a good music and can produce

louder sound than acoustic one.

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular

music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early

1950s, primarily from a combination of the blues, country music, jazz and gospel music.

Though elements of rock and roll can be heard in country records of the 1930s, and in blues

records from the 1920s, rock and roll did not acquire its name until the 1950s. An early form

of rock and roll was rockabilly, which combined country and jazz with influences from

traditional Appalachian folk music and gospel.

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 In the earliest rock and roll styles of the late 1940s and early 1950s, either the

piano or saxophone was often the lead instrument, but these were generally replaced or

supplemented by guitar in the middle to late 1950s. The beat is essentially a boogie

woogie blues rhythm with an accentuated backbeat, the latter almost always provided by

a snare drum. Classic rock and roll is usually played with one or two electric guitars (one

lead, one rhythm), a string bass or (after the mid-1950s) an electric bass guitar, and a drum

kit.

Rock and roll began achieving wide popularity in the 1960s. The massive

popularity and eventual worldwide view of rock and roll gave it a widespread social impact.

Bobby Gillespie writes that "When Chuck Berry sang "Hail, hail, rock and roll, deliver me

from the days of old", that's exactly what the music was doing. Chuck Berry started the

global psychic jailbreak that is rock 'n' roll."

Far beyond simply a musical style, rock and roll, as seen in movies and on

television, influenced lifestyles, fashion, attitudes, and language. It went on to spawn

various sub-genres, often without the initially characteristic backbeat, that are now more

commonly called simply "rock music" or "rock".

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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BOOK

APA

McNeil, L., McCain, G. (2006, April). Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

(An Evergreen book). Grove Press. p.488.

Manson, M., Strauss, N. (2006, April). The Long Hard Road Out of Hell. Regan Books.

p.288.

Sugerman, D., Hopkins, J. (2006, April). No One Here Gets Out Alive. Warner Books. p.384.

Lee, T., Neil, V., Sixx, N., Strauss, N., Mars, M. (2002, July). The Dirt: Confessions of the

World's Most Notorious Rock Band. Regan Books. p.448.

Kiedis, A. (2005, October). Scar Tissue. Hyperion. p.480.

George, H., McCartney, P., Starr, R., Lennon, J. (2000, October). The Beatles Anthology.

Chronicle Books. p.368.

Sixx, N. (2007, October). The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star.

Simon & Schuster Ltd. p.432.

Clapton, E. (2007, October). Clapton: The Autobiography. Broadway. p.336.

Hornby, N. (1996, August). High Fidelity. Riverhead Trade. p.336.

Davis, S. (2004). Jim Morris: Life, Death, Legend. Gotham. p.496.

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Warren, H. G., Romanowski, P. (2001, October). The Rolling Stone Encyclopaedia of Rock

& Roll (Revised and Updated for the 21st Century). Fireside. p.1136.

Osbourne, O., Ayres, C. (2010, January). I Am Ozzy. Grand Central Publishing. p.320.

Guralnick, P. (1995, September). Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley. Back

Bay Books. p.576.

Cross, C. R. (2001, August). Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain. Hyperion.

p.400.

Lewisohn, M., McCartney, P. (2006, August). The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions:

The Official Story of the Abbey Road Years 1962-1970. EMI Records. p.204.

Eliot, M. (2004, December). To The Limit: The Untold Story. Da Capo Press. p.394

Azerrad, M. (2002, July). Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the America Indie

Underground 1981-1991. Back Bay Books. p.522.

Miles, B. (1997). Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now. Random House of Canada,

Limited. p.576.

Gould, J. (2007). Can’t Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America. Harmony. p.576.

Guralnick, P. (2000). Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley. Back Bay Books.

p.768.

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Kobain, K. (2003). Journals. Riverhead Trade. p.304.

Moynihan, M., Soderlind, D. (2003). Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal

Underground New Edition. Feral House. p.405.

Henke, J. (2007). The Jim Morrison Scrapbook. Chronicles Books LLC. p.64.

Marcus, G. (1999). Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession. Harvard University

Press. p.288

MLA

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Soffe, Anne Thomas. “Nerd Girl Rocks Paradise City”: A True Story of Faking It in Hair Metal

L.A. Chicago Review Press. 2005. 256.

Gaines, Steven, Brown, Peter. “The Love You Make”: An Insider’s Story of the Beatles. NAL

Trade. 2002. 448.

Neely, Kim. “Five Against One”: The Pearl Jam Story. Diane Pub Co. 1999. 364.

Miles, Barry. “Hippie”. Sterling. 2005. 384.

Guralnick, Peter. “Sweet Soul Music”: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of

Freedom. Back Bay Books. 1999. 384.

Cross, Charles. R. “Cobain Unseen”. Little, Brown and Company. 2008. 160.

Azerrad, Michael. “Come As You Are”: The Story of Nirvana. Main Street Books. 1993. 336.

Mercury, Freddie., Brooks, Greg., Lupton, Simon., Bulsara, J. “Freddie Mercury”: A Life in

His Own Words. Omnibus Press. 2009. 176.

Booth, Stanley. “The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones”. Chicago Review Press. 2000.

400.

Wyman, Bill. “Rolling with the Stones”. DK ADULT. 2001. 512.

Schaffer, Nicholas. “Saucerful of Secrets”: The Pink Floyd Odyssey.1992. 348.

The Rolling Stones. “According to the Rolling Stones”. 2003. 360.

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Segalstad, Eric., Hunter, Josh. “The 27s”: The Greatest Myth of Rock & Roll. 2007. 312.

Norman, Philip. “Shout!”: The Beatles in Their Generation. 2003. 608.

Overbury, Steve. “Guns, Cash and Rock ‘n’ Roll”. 2007. 336.

Brown, Steven, B. Merker & N. L Wallin. “The Origins of Music”. Massachusetts: Best-set

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“Music”. The Columbia Encyclopaedia. 6th Edition. Columbia: Columbia University Press.

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Mulcahy, James. “Bitter smell of success”. New York Press. 2010, Sept. 28.

Lethem, Jonathan. “What Makes a Great Singer?”. Rolling Stones. 2009, Aug. 11-1.

Yi Jin & Min Huang. ”Melody-based retrieval of music”. The Electronic Library Journal. 22(3)

(2004). 269-273.

ONLINE SOURCES

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This website will give you a lot of information about music. The latest show, release and

review about musician. Other than that, information about classic musician can be found

here.

Music. Retrieved 2010, October 4, from the World Wide Web: <http://www.allmusic.com/>

Wieczorkowska, A. A., Ras, Z. W. Journal of Intelligent Information Systems. Springerlink

Online Database Journals. Retrieved 2010, October 4, from Springerlink on the

World Wide Web. <http://springerlink.com/>

Rubin. Rock Music List. Retrieved 2010, October 4, from

<http://www.rockmusiclist.com/fr_index.htm>

AVRev. Audio Video Revolution. Retrieved 2010, October 4, from <http://www.avrev.com/>

Jann S. Wenner. The Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2010, October 4, from

<http://www.rollingstone.com/>

Eyepinch. Classic Artists Today. Retrieved 2010, October 4, from

<http://www.classicartiststoday.com/>

CTVglobemedia. Much. Retrieved 2010, October 4, from <http://www.muchmusic.com/>

MTV Networks. Retrieved 2010, October 4, from <http://www.mtv.com/>

The Music Review. The Music Industry Search Engine. Retrieved 2010, October 4, from

<http://www.musreview.com/>

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CONCLUSION
From the essay above we can conclude that music expressed the composer’s most lofty and

noble feelings. It calmed, gave joy and assisted in conceiving a prayerful emotion within the

listener. Besides, music is a great way to relax and be happy in daily life. It is also very

useful for musicians to express their feelings. This is one of the reasons which make music

universal. It has nothing to do with age, race or religion. Anyone who wants to listen to

music, listens to music and anyone who wants to do music does music.

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APPENDICES

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