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Tupac “Changes”
Lyrics combined with beat and tempo has the ability to change one’s whole outlook upon a certain subject. In Copland’s theory he states that music should be listened to only the beat. He thinks that music is supposed to be heard on only three planes; expressive, sensuous, and the musical plane. Yet Copland doesn’t talk about what lyrics add to these planes. In a song called “Changes” by Tupac Shakur , lyrics to this song made it a brilliant example of Copland’s theory on all three planes. Tupac was a brilliantt rap artist that used the times around him and his child hood as vehicles in his songs. Therefore it is necessary for him to use his lyrics in order to convey the true message of his songs.
The sensuous plane according to Copland is “The simplest way of listening to music is to listen for the sheer pleasure of the musical sound itself” (148). In Tupac’s “Changes”, the music heard in the background is what defines the mood for this song. The background......

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