Assignment2_Grammar-in-music
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This document is a student assignment analyzing the grammar and tenses used in the Rolling Stones song "Angie" and the song "Epiphany" from the musical Sweeney Todd. It examines the tenses, modality, and voice used in different lyrics. In part 1, it analyzes the simple future, simple past, and simple present tenses in "Angie" lyrics. Part 2 discusses modality and meanings conveyed through tense in "Angie". Part 3 examines use of the simple present tense and voice in examples from "Epiphany".
Assignment2_Grammar-in-music
- 1. Assignment 2: Grammar in Music. Students Name: Mar鱈a de los Angeles Betancur Murillo. Song: Angie. Performed by: Rolling Stones. Part 1: Tenses Example 1: Context When will those clouds all disappear? Tense Name Simple Future Use Use 3: Prediction based on experience Example 2: Context All the dreams we held so close Seemed to all go up on a smoke Tense Name Simple Past Use Use 1: Action in a specific time in the past Example 3: Context Let me whisper in your ear Tense Name Simple Present Use Use 7: Narrations, instructions or commentaries Part 2: Modality Example 1: Context Where will it lead us from here? Tense Name Simple Future Meaning Prediction Example 2: Context You can't say we never tried
- 2. Tense Name Simple Present Meaning Inability Song: Epiphany. Performed by: Johnny Depp & Helena Bonham Carter (Sweeney Todd Soundtrack). Part 3: Voice Example 1: Context There's a hole in the world like a great black pit And it's filled with people who are filled with sh*t And the vermin of the world inhabit it. Tense Name Simple Present Example 2: Context Don't we all deserve to die? Even you, Mrs. Lovett, even I. Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief For the rest of us death will be a relief We all deserve to die. Tense Name Simple Present