| What is Music? |
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| What is music? According to the dictionary, music is "the art of arranging tones in an orderly sequence so as to produce a unified and continuous composition". In reality though, does the word "music" really have any significant meaning? The meaning of music is different for everyone. . Music to a musician is there entire life. They live music everyday. Music is their passion. For alot of us music is a hobby. We use it to tune out the world, or to calm our emotions. |
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| The following definitions are taken from an article that defines music according to different perspectives. |
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| Music is science |
| It is exact, specific; and it demands exact acoustics. A conductor's full score is a chart, a graph which indicates frequencies, intensities, volume changes, melody, and harmony all at once and with the most exact control of time. |
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| Music is mathematical |
| It is rhythmically based on the subdivisions of time into fractions which must be done, not worked out on paper. |
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| Music is a foreign language |
| Most of the terms are in Italian, German, or French; and the notation is certainly not English &endash; but a highly developed kind of shorthand that uses symbols to represent ideas. The semantics of music is the most complete and universal language. |
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| Music is history |
| Music usually reflects the environment and times of its creations, often even the country and/or racial feeling. |
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| Music is physical education |
| It requires fantastic coordination of finger, hands, arms, lip, cheek, and facial muscles, in addition to extraordinary control of the diaphragmatic back, stomach, and chest muscles, which respond instantly to the sound the ear hears and the mind interprets. |
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| Music is all of these things, but most of all |
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| Music is art |
It allows a human being to take all these dry, technically boring (but difficult) techniques and use them to create emotion. That is one thing science cannot duplicate: humanism, feeling, emotion, call it what you will.
| Special thanks to the following web sites for reference information: |
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| Special thanks to the author of the following article used for reference information: |
| Weinberger, Norman M., "Brain, behavior, biology, and music: Some research findings and their implications for educational policy", Arts Education Policy Review (1998): 28-37 |
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Excellent information abt the music :)
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