Performance 1 - I have chosen to study Evanescence - Hello, All About Eve - Scarlet and Joy Division - The Eternal.

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Performance 1

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I have chosen to study Evanescence - Hello, All About Eve - Scarlet and Joy Division - The Eternal. These pieces are all from the gothic genre yet each has individual features that make them very different from each other. This can provoke people into believing that they lie more comfortably into a sub-genre, for example; gothic rock, gothic folk etc. The main features of gothic music are hard to pinpoint because of this diversity however they regularly include melancholy lyrics, unusual vocals created by singers who are not accepted into the "charts", often with drawn out notes and, more recently, female fronted.

This is certainly true of Evanescence and All About Eve however, Joy Division were the most ground breaking band in the history of the sub-culture according to the publications of the time e.g. NME. Their lead singer Ian Curtis is well known for his on stage performance where he often looked possessed by devils. His vocals range from a fast, tenor, atmospheric sound to a steady, bass, haunting sound as in The Eternal. The mix of their songs causes the bass and drums to be very prevalent