Salutations, fellow students of Claude Watson. This is Jolie, James, and Eric from grade 8 strings. We are going to go on about the existence of empathy in music. The creation, performance, and use of music exists in all cultures, places, and in history. Music increasingly brings together many people, including a vast amount of cultures and histories. Many would even claim that music could be referred to as a “Universal Language” that can conquer cultural difference, age, social class, ability, disability, and break down barriers of ethnicity. [*don’t say this, it’s just for if someone asks.* Group of ppl with a common nationality/ cultural tradition]
Music is essentially what our feelings would sound like. Many songs have a deeper meaning in them than the lyrics suggest, but we may not understand what they are meaning, however, we can still feel the power, happiness, feeling, and or pain in their voices while singing. …show more content…
Take instrumental music as an example. You can distinctively hear the difference between a happy and sad tune. We can feel the happiness or sadness just from the piece itself. Take some of the pieces that many of us know about, such as Für Elise, which translates to For Elise. The song is written in a minor key, which means that it sounds agitated, sad, dark, and just not happy, however, the song is really a love song. From the title and the song, we can take that it is very soft and shows a lot of emotions, A song that was meant for someone, that someone we may not know who, but from what we can take from the song, that someone clearly means something to Beethoven, the composer of the tune. Additionally, the word "Elise" was also used to describe one's sweetheart or lover during the Beethoven era. [1775- 1825 *DON’T SAY THIS ITS JUST INCASE SOMEONE
Music is essentially what our feelings would sound like. Many songs have a deeper meaning in them than the lyrics suggest, but we may not understand what they are meaning, however, we can still feel the power, happiness, feeling, and or pain in their voices while singing. …show more content…
Take instrumental music as an example. You can distinctively hear the difference between a happy and sad tune. We can feel the happiness or sadness just from the piece itself. Take some of the pieces that many of us know about, such as Für Elise, which translates to For Elise. The song is written in a minor key, which means that it sounds agitated, sad, dark, and just not happy, however, the song is really a love song. From the title and the song, we can take that it is very soft and shows a lot of emotions, A song that was meant for someone, that someone we may not know who, but from what we can take from the song, that someone clearly means something to Beethoven, the composer of the tune. Additionally, the word "Elise" was also used to describe one's sweetheart or lover during the Beethoven era. [1775- 1825 *DON’T SAY THIS ITS JUST INCASE SOMEONE