How Has Music Influenced Me

On the first day and class of my college career, I was asked to define music in my own words. I continued to write in my notebook on the fresh, clean page what I had thought was a creative way of explaining the topic. I had written, “Music is defined as a combination of sounds, voices and beats to make a new stream of varying qualities that are pleasing to the ear based on opinion.” After sitting through several classes I began to realize I had in fact over-complicated the word “music”. Professor O explained to everyone that the music was in fact organized sound through time. I was never in a band, played an instrument, or went into a choir besides when I was six years old. Music was something I bought with an iTunes gift-card and played through my phone. After taking …show more content…
Throughout the semester, Professor Ochoa would drop an inspirational quote that would sometimes leave a lingering effect on me. There were three that stuck out to me the most. The first was, “Great art awakens the art in you”. I completely agree that great art can stir something inside of you that creates creativity. For example, you could listen to Tchaikovsky’s, Symphony #5 second movement, and be inspired to create a painting that you feel captures the emotion of the musical piece. Great art generates the domino effect. Something must inspire you to forge something else. The second quote was “Listen to one thing you hear it all. The same thing as focusing on one thing, you see it all”. At first glance of this quote, it makes sense to me when I think about a landscape. I am an avid photographer, and angles are important. If you focus on one thing, it exposes the rest around the center. In a music sense, if you hear the beat and the meter is symmetrical, duple,