In a post, explain the ways that, according to Cook, music is used to convey meaning in the commercial.

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Music consists of a series of sounds arranged into some order. It is not immediately obvious how these sounds are able to convey to us the depth of meaning we get by listening to music. Music can transport us to another place, evoke emotion, prompt memories, and more. Cook uses the Prudential commercial you viewed above to explore how music can be used to communicate quite complex and sophisticated messages to an audience.
In a post, explain the ways that, according to Cook, music is used to convey meaning in the commercial. Your post should be a careful, detailed one- to two-paragraph look at Cook’s analysis. PLEASE SEPARATE THESE TWO PARTS ABOVE AND BELOW*
Cook, N. Music: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 978-0192853820 Next, imagine that you are working as a marketer for Prudential today. Prudential asks you to create an updated version of the same commercial to appeal to a contemporary audience of young people. How would you reinterpret the commercial in today’s culture in order to evoke the same meanings you found in Cook’s analysis? Describe your new commercial in a reply to your first post, above.
In your answer, get specific. You are free to include drawings, references to or recordings of music, and detailed descriptions of the scenes you would include. Note that you don’t necessarily have to recreate the original commercial scene-by-scene—the task is to recreate the messages sent, using music, by the original commercial. So, make sure that you consistently refer back to the messages found in your explanation of Cook’s analysis in your first post.