What Is Music Essay

Music is well known because of its meaning for different cultures. It’s a way in which cultures differ from each other and it’s the one that characterized them. Also music is used by people in many ways, as entertainment or for personal uses like using it to study or sleep, etc… Music in my culture is very present. Colombia which is from were I am is divided in regions and each region has its own unique style of music, the diversity level in the country is very high. The music depends of a lot…

Aaron Copland book, What to Listen for in Music, seems helpful to me because it explained music, and where music comes from through the eyes of the composer. His essay creates the foundation for an scientifical musical appreciation, beginning with basics as harmony, melodies , and pattern. It also has implicitly caused me to start asking some questions when I'm listening to a piece of music. Aaron Copland classifies and discusses three levels of listening to music : sensuous place, expressive…

During the documentary, we could watch the influences through some musicians in the 50´s. Those musicians had been inspired mostly by the times that the world was living. For example, segregation, and Vietnam world. They used Jazz as a kind of expression, as a political believes. The most notable musicians in these time were Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman, and Dave Brubek. All of them moved the Jazz to another level. A new kind of Jazz became, some improvisation, no guides, new…

Music means something different for everyone, but for me, it means life. As my classmates and I entered high school, we all found a niche-- a group of people like us who made us feel like we belonged, and for me that group was band. Joining band my freshman year, especially marching band provided me with a group of friends and a comfortable place to be myself. I never went through the awkward first day of school looking for someone to sit by because I entered high school with more than forty…

Since I barely have the music sense, listening and writing about jazz music was my biggest headache from the beginning of class. It is hard to use words to describe wordless music that is being heard. Yet I still learned the origin and the evolution of jazz music, its African American background and the different style it changes into. The videos playing in the class were useful to better understand the jazz music: by going over Billy Taylor’s What Is Jazz, I realized the composition of a jazz…

Music is a big part of my life and it means a lot to me .Do you ever wonder how many times you run , may be you don’t even run , maybe you run too fast you don’t see what’s happening around me . Am not talking about running physically it’s a metaphor of you every time , everything you do , every energy and time you devote to your dreams . These are the questions i have on my mind everytime i go to sleep when i put on my headphones and play a song . so when most people listen to a song they hear…

Music isn’t a real subject. Music is easy. There’s no career in music. Music isn’t important. These are all some common misconceptions surrounding music. Today I will be informing you of the incredible benefits music can bring to our society. This includes the correlation of emotions, brain development and activity via music and music therapy and healing. To begin I will be enlightening you about the correlation of emotions with music. There is little dispute over the fact that music evokes…

The chapter “How We Listen” in Aaron Copland’s What to Listen for in Music addresses three different ways in which we listen to music. The first plane is the “sensuous plane”, the second is the “expressive plane”, and the third is the “sheerly musical plane” (Copland 7). As Copland discusses and critiques each plane, the reader quickly realizes that they gravitate towards certain planes more than others. While this piece is somewhat opinionated, Copeland thoroughly justifies his claims, allowing…

of music before the twentieth century revolved around musicians and their instrument makers. Events likely to have a significant effect on this particular period of time seemed consistent. Well-tempered tuning was perfected, and soon after J.S. Bach rewrote the musical book with his groundbreaking composition, The Well-Tempered Clavier. The creation of the pianoforte fostered Beethoven's playing and writing and opened up a new powerful responsiveness. Autonomy and self-determination in music…

Aneka Happer Music and Entertainment in the Middle Ages “The true beauty of music is that it connects people,” (Ron Ayers). Music is a very magical thing. It has been around for centuries bringing people together and forming friendships, memories or bonds between people who love each other. Dance and theatre do this as well, dancing with someone is another form of communication, and theatre spreads the word of stories. Although music and entertainment has not always been the same throughout…