What is Music? When words fail, music speaks. Music is an unavoidable part in everyone’s life. Whether its music you play by personal choice or music you hear in supermarkets or on the radio in the car. Society is all about music. Music has been a part of every culture; it has been there from the beginning of time and will be there at the end. Music is not just noise, music is another language to express your thoughts and your personality, it is a type of therapy and motivator, and it is a form of connection between people. Music is an expression, an expression to let out our own thoughts and feelings out. After a rough day, driving home from work or school, you may need a moment to yourself. You remember how bad you did on that Math
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Music can serve as a communication method between people. In the old times in Mexico it was very common for an admirer, in most cases the man, to go to his love’s house with a mariachi or a small group of musicians and sing love songs until the girl woke up to the man’s singing and received him by opening up her windows to the balcony she was in. Now, you must be thinking why did I bring this up? Well, just like the man dedicated love songs to his love nowadays people can’t explain the love towards their spouses or their parents so they pick a song to express what they feel. Music is communication not only by showing love but also by discussing their life experiences and history. In the online article “The Meaning of Music in the Lives of Older People: A Qualitative Study,” Terrence Hays and Victor Minichiello state, “Music provided ways for the participants to feel connected in a variety of ways. These included self and emotions, as discussed above, being in touch with one’s personal history and life experiences, and to others. This was considered especially important by the participants as they aged and experienced loss.” The authors also state, “Music was important and had meaning in the participants everyday life because it provided interaction with others.” Music is the connection to what the world may not know about
Music can serve as a communication method between people. In the old times in Mexico it was very common for an admirer, in most cases the man, to go to his love’s house with a mariachi or a small group of musicians and sing love songs until the girl woke up to the man’s singing and received him by opening up her windows to the balcony she was in. Now, you must be thinking why did I bring this up? Well, just like the man dedicated love songs to his love nowadays people can’t explain the love towards their spouses or their parents so they pick a song to express what they feel. Music is communication not only by showing love but also by discussing their life experiences and history. In the online article “The Meaning of Music in the Lives of Older People: A Qualitative Study,” Terrence Hays and Victor Minichiello state, “Music provided ways for the participants to feel connected in a variety of ways. These included self and emotions, as discussed above, being in touch with one’s personal history and life experiences, and to others. This was considered especially important by the participants as they aged and experienced loss.” The authors also state, “Music was important and had meaning in the participants everyday life because it provided interaction with others.” Music is the connection to what the world may not know about