Elementary School (5-6)
When I entered the 5th grade I saw no reason to see why this year would be any different from all other years, aside from the fact that I would be closer to Junior High and have to accomplish more challenging work. The year progressed uneventfully and I found myself being decently content with what I had. However, it seemed that I was missing something; I was doing fine in all my classes but I did not really have any motivation. In the last month of school, the Band Department from the high school visited to show us students how to play instruments and to decide if we wanted to enroll in a summer band program. This eventually led me to the revelation that music played huge a massive impact on my life.The words and …show more content…
There is no dialect, or hand signals used to convey a message. This language is through the incorporation of emotions exemplified by fast or slower tempos. At the end of 9th grade, the idea of phrasing was introduced: notes and music combined into musical sentences. When I finally reached 10th grade, I fully understood the message of music. I practiced efficiently and managed to get into the middle Band and ended up 3rd chair, which I considered very good. The one moment that made me decisively change my attitude came from one small, but powerful experience. The band director asked us to play a song called “Loch Lomond”. To my surprise, the song correlated directly with a story. Two soldiers taking different roads, were supposedly returning from war. The man taking the “higher road” carried with him the shadow of death where the other hoped to continue to exist after taking the “low road”. Personally, I did not capture the essence of the story, but the main idea was enough insight into the storyline. Our band expressed these dichotomizing feelings through sorrowful phrasing, so sorrowful and so passionate that it brought many audience members to tears. This is reason why music holds power over language. Throughout my roller coaster of life the one message I found the most important was that music allows people to do a great variety of things. Unlike expressing oneself, music creates an environment in which one can enter his or her own world, or one can even reflect on one’s current situation. Music uncovers new revelations about life. It highlights the best of us and the things that we can reflect on. Now I am aspiring to reach higher levels of musicianship. In trying out for competitive groups like SEIBA and All-State I discovered that the deeper the music was, the more complex the message seemed to be. I asked myself why this was the case. The answer hit me immediately. Basic music is a field
When I entered the 5th grade I saw no reason to see why this year would be any different from all other years, aside from the fact that I would be closer to Junior High and have to accomplish more challenging work. The year progressed uneventfully and I found myself being decently content with what I had. However, it seemed that I was missing something; I was doing fine in all my classes but I did not really have any motivation. In the last month of school, the Band Department from the high school visited to show us students how to play instruments and to decide if we wanted to enroll in a summer band program. This eventually led me to the revelation that music played huge a massive impact on my life.The words and …show more content…
There is no dialect, or hand signals used to convey a message. This language is through the incorporation of emotions exemplified by fast or slower tempos. At the end of 9th grade, the idea of phrasing was introduced: notes and music combined into musical sentences. When I finally reached 10th grade, I fully understood the message of music. I practiced efficiently and managed to get into the middle Band and ended up 3rd chair, which I considered very good. The one moment that made me decisively change my attitude came from one small, but powerful experience. The band director asked us to play a song called “Loch Lomond”. To my surprise, the song correlated directly with a story. Two soldiers taking different roads, were supposedly returning from war. The man taking the “higher road” carried with him the shadow of death where the other hoped to continue to exist after taking the “low road”. Personally, I did not capture the essence of the story, but the main idea was enough insight into the storyline. Our band expressed these dichotomizing feelings through sorrowful phrasing, so sorrowful and so passionate that it brought many audience members to tears. This is reason why music holds power over language. Throughout my roller coaster of life the one message I found the most important was that music allows people to do a great variety of things. Unlike expressing oneself, music creates an environment in which one can enter his or her own world, or one can even reflect on one’s current situation. Music uncovers new revelations about life. It highlights the best of us and the things that we can reflect on. Now I am aspiring to reach higher levels of musicianship. In trying out for competitive groups like SEIBA and All-State I discovered that the deeper the music was, the more complex the message seemed to be. I asked myself why this was the case. The answer hit me immediately. Basic music is a field