Manner composers and performers to end their music

Composers and performers work in the creation and performance of musical works. The only key difference between these two is that composers write their original works while performers integrate their own interpretation of the work of composers and how both decide to end their music is different.  Hello by Adele will help in exploring some of the ways performers and composers choose to end their music. Hello has been performed by many performers apart from Adele. Adele does not close her song with rhythmic phrases nor does she close her song with a cadence of repeated melodic phrases. Rarely do composers end their songs with a V chord, she closes her song in the tonic chord since it is the most stable condition to close a song, the dominant chord at the end of a progression would have made the song sound incomplete at the ending (Music practice and theory, n.d).

            The song does not end her like it is fading out of familiar materials, the technique of ending a song with a slow decrease in volume over the last few second was commonly used in the 1950s (Weir, 2014). Instead of using a fading volume the volume of the song is higher during the last few seconds. Lastly, she does doesn’t close her song with a loss of interest and this can be indicated by the high pitch she used the last few seconds. Several covers of Hello have been performed overtime. One was performed by Nicole Cross, just like Adele she doesn’t close her performance of the song with a cadence of repeated melodic phrases or rhythmic phrases in order to deliver it just like the original composer, Adele did. For the performer to make her song sound complete she does not close the song with a cadence linked to a chord progression ending on the home tone that is preceded by a dominant (V). Unlike Adele the composer uses a fading out volume in the last few seconds of the song. Lastly, the performer closed the song with a loss of interest.

References

Music practice and theory (n.d). Ending a song with a dominant chord. Retrieved from;             https://music.stackexchange.com/questions

Weir, W. (2014). A Little Bit Softer Now, a Little Bit Softer Now. Retrieved from;             https://slate.com/culture/2014/09/the-fade-out-in-pop-music-why-dont-modern-pop-          songs-end-by-slowly-reducing-in-volume.html