Personal Essay: A Music Analysis

If you had to decide between losing your hearing or losing your sight, which would you choose? In my younger years, I had always thought that I would rather be deaf than be blind, but recently I’ve changed my outlook on the situation. Music has become an integral part of my life in the past few years after I joined band and was able to appreciate the music I heard every day in a brand new way. In middle school, I got my own MP3 player and was finally able to develop my own music tastes. On top of my long and loving history with music, I’ve also started to compose and create my own pieces in my free time, thus bringing me even closer to understand the one truly universal language. As an observant listener in the music community, I’ve had the privilege of being able to listen to many different genres and types of music in my lifetime. Though I try to appreciate and respect every type of music I listen to, I do very much have preferences and biases. Unlike many of the people in our community, I hate nearly every type of country music there is to offer. I would even go as far to say that whenever a country song comes on, I am physically disgusted to the point that I would rather listen to nails …show more content…
I was inspired to venture into the world of music composition after listening to fan made songs on Soundcloud for Undertale, one of my favorite games with really engaging tracks. After doing a quick Google search, I started using Musescore and fell in love with it. Musescore allowed me to create pieces with extreme customization without being too complicated to understand. After seeing that I could create music for specific instruments and have it play them back to me, I earned an entirely new comprehension of the musical world. Composing my own music has given me yet another angle in which I can appreciate music