This week we began learning about the loudness of music throughout the years. I read several articles about how differently songs are produced now compared to how they were, throughout the 1900s. Both articles displayed graphs showing the difference in frequency from song to song and decade to decade. I also read an article about the loudness war, which helped tie the previous two articles together. The loudness war is a concept that songs are getting increasingly louder as time progresses. When Frank Sinatra was releasing music, you could tell that he, and the band, were louder during some parts of the song. Nowadays, however, there seems to be one constant sound. This is due to the way the songs are produced. I believe producers are beginning to make songs louder and louder because it helps draw attention to the song. There are so many people in the music business just so they can make money, very few of them actually care about the quality of the music. If producing the song to be louder makes them more money, then thats exactly what they are going to do. Learning about the loudness war, and the different ways songs can be produced, helped set the foundation for learning about the development of music throughout the decades.