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Bryan Adams is a Canadian musician known for hits like "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" and "Cuts Like a Knife". He wrote and performed songs for the 2002 animated film Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, including "Here I Am", "Get Off of My Back", "Sound the Bugle", and "I Will Always Return". The document provides background on Adams and analyzes these songs from the film through listening guides that describe elements like tempo, instrumentation, lyrics, and volume changes.

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Bryan Adams is a Canadian musician known for hits like "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" and "Cuts Like a Knife". He wrote and performed songs for the 2002 animated film Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, including "Here I Am", "Get Off of My Back", "Sound the Bugle", and "I Will Always Return". The document provides background on Adams and analyzes these songs from the film through listening guides that describe elements like tempo, instrumentation, lyrics, and volume changes.

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Music Presentation: Bryan

Adams and The music of Spirit:


Stallion of the Cimarron

Christian Bentley
Music 1010-404
Fall Semester 2017
Bryan Adams
Born: 5 November,
1959
From Canada
Had musical talent
at a young age
Worked hard to
earn money for
music purposes
Influences and Career
The band
Sweeney Todd
Jim Vallance
Breast Cancer
Awareness
Biggest Hits
(Everything I Do)
I Do It For You
Cuts Like a
Knife
Album Bryan
Adams
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
Produced in 2002
Produced by
DreamWorks
Animation
Songs
written/performed by
Hans Zimmer and
Bryan Adams
About a Stallion and
his spirit to never
give up
Here I Am
Ending credits, and
other parts through
the movie
Inspired by movie
theme
Created by Bryan
Adams, Gretchen
Peters, Hans Zimmer
Get Off of My Back
Demonstrates the
character of the
horse
Excite audience
Created by Bryan
Adams and Eliot
Kennedy
Sound the Bugle
Climax of the
movie
Sadness turns in
to motivation
Sung by Bryan
Adams
I Will Always Return
Beginning and Created by Meant to
last scene of Bryan Adams, inspire and
the movie Robert Lange, touch feelings
and Hans
Zimmer
Listening Guide: Here I Am
0:00 0:09 0:19
Soft Intro with the Vocal comes in, Song verse begins,
electric Piano, tambaurine beat with slow steady
slow tempo drum beat

0:42 1:43 2:22


background
Tempo speeds up, singer comes in Guitar solo,
volume increases
increases, more volume
percussion,
guitar lightly
added
Listening Guide: Here I Am
2:46 3:06 3:40
Verse two begins, with Volume increases Additional singers in
only guitar and again with tempo background, slight
piano, returns to (fuerte) in chorus, decrease in tempo
decreases tempo percussion and and volume,
and volume tambourine added repeats main lyrics

4:30 4:37
Singing slows, Song finishes with
background singers drum beat, and last
stop, piano and main words (soft)
guitar stop,
tambourine and low
drum beat continue
Listening Guide: Get Off My
Back
0:00 0:08 0:24
Drum intro with Singer comes in Added percussion,
electric guitar, medium strong drum, guitar beat,
faster/allegro beat and voice changes
as it increases in
volume and tempo,
chorus
0:59 1:23 1:40
Beat and rhythm of percussion and guitar Elctric piano comes in
the guitar and beat speeds up and with steady rythm,
drums slow and rhythm changes with a guitar solo
return as it was in again as it increases and steady drum
the beginning, 2nd in volume, singer beat
verse increases intensity
as repeats chorus
Listening Guide: Get Off My
Back
1:59 2:27
Repeats chorus, guitar Repeats song title
and drums returns with emphasis,
to first rythm whistling added,
guitar and drum
increase in volume
Listening Guide: Sound the
Bugle
0:00 0:56 1:47
Slow (Adagio) and soft verse begins, slow Quiet drum roll with
(Piano) intro with tempo and soft singing, short electric
electric and normal singing with piano piano solo with
piano, very graceful chords, electric piano percussion added
stops

2:08 2:42 3:17


2nd verse begins, with Singing volume Singing stops, drums
piano, more increases, piano slow and quiet
percussion, and and drums change down, some electric
triangle in rhythm and raise and piano play
in volume
Listening Guide: Sound the
Bugle
3:30
Last verse sung strong
with emphasis and
raised volume,
drums keep
rhythm, guitar
added to words,
electric piano
Listening Guide: I Will Always
Return
0:00 0:26 0:37
Electric piano comes Electric guitar comes Singing continues,
in slow, singing in with percussion some guitar strums,
begins, slow and slow drum beat,
peaceful some piano

1:20 1:52 2:05


Singing rhythm Chorus ends, drum Chorus repeated,
change, all beat continues, background
instruments and short guitar solo singers, brief drum
voice increase in rhythm changes
volume (crescendo) and added
singer speeds up as percussion, volume
begins chorus raises
Listening Guide: I Will Always
Return
2:41 3:05 3:43
Singing quiets down Voice volume raises Singer slows down
and slows again, guitar and lowers volume,
(diminuendo), light continues, percussion stops,
guitar playing, light percussion rhythm guitar strums
percussion, no returns and volume quietly and gently
piano, short pauses increases, added as song finishes
background
singers, as lyrics
are repeated
volume increases
then begin to
decrease
References
Who is Bryan Adams? Everything You Need to Know.
Childhood, Life Achievements & Timeline,
www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/bryan-guy-adams-942.php.
Bryan Adams. Bryan Adams biography,
www.8notes.com/biographies/adams.asp.
One Stop Canadian Music Site. MapleMusic.com - Promoting
Canadian Music, Bands and Artists,
www.maplemusic.com/artists/bad/bio.asp.
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (Soundtrack). Wikipedia,
Wikimedia Foundation, 27 Nov. 2017,
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit:_Stallion_of_the_Cimarron_(soundtr
ack).

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