Listening to Music

by Nitya Poudel

Three –Four months ago we were told that we would be listening to different kinds of music. We started with 3 English songs and 3 Nepali songs.

The first 3 English songs were:

·       We will rock you- by Queen

·      Rain drops are falling on my head- by B.J. Thomas and Paul Simon’s

·      Pig, sheep and wolf

 We were divided into three groups and we each group had to write the lyrics of one song . I and Kusma were placed in the same group. Shaswat, Abin and Pukar were in one group and Utkrishta, Neeva and Susmita were in the last group. My group had to write the lyrics of We will rock you; Shaswat’s group had to write the lyrics of rain drops are falling on my head and Utkrishta’s group had to write the lyrics of Pig, sheep and wolf.

The first three Nepali songs that we were doing were:

·      lapsi ko gedo chusera - by Kumar Basnet

·      Bagh hoina  - by Kumar Basnet

·      Ukali orali haruma - by Tara Devi

I had to write all the lyrics of these three songs and then our teacher checked if the spelling were wrong. After checking we gave it to Kusma who is very fast at Nepali typing and she typed the songs and gave the print out to us. From the last 3-4 months we have heard too many songs and we will be listening to more songs in the coming days. We have also listened to Michael Jackson’s “Do you remember the time we fell in love”.  My favorite song is “river of dreams” by Billy Joel. It is really a very nice song. We have also heard the songs of Elvis Presley, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul and Mary. The song “Puff the magic dragon” and “500 miles” by Peter, Paul and Mary are really nice songs. Shaswat is told to research about the different types of music such as Reggae movement, Hard rock movement, rock movement etc. He will submit his work by this week and we would be able to learn more and more about different types of music. I liked many songs that we listened in our school like “tears in heaven”, “Jailer threw a party” etc. “Tears in heaven” is Eric Clapton’s song which he wrote when he his 9 years song died. It is a nice song. I like listening to different kinds of songs.