Music

According to google, music is: “Vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion.” Music in schools is a very big topic and debate. Some people argue that it is useless and a waste of money, but music is a very important part of school and can improve our learning capabilities. A reason why music should still be included in our schools is because people do better in school if they play an instrument. Research done…

and historians, all providing prospective for studying music through a Marxist lens. In Music and Marx: Ideas, Practice, Politics, the chapters highlight the place of music in society by engaging Marxist theories on society. The book provides “music-directed approaches to Marx,” which express the issues of musical thinking and theorizing as it relates to commodification, the control of musical form by capitalism, the connection between music-making and economic processes, and the issues of…

When it comes to music in film, it is important to properly capture what is onscreen with the music accompanying the scene. A piece of music that is appropriately orchestrated will allow the viewer to feel as though they have become a part of the film. Because the point of view of the camera is omniscient, the following musical description will attempt to create a piece that will not overpower the scene but rather complement it, and follow the emotion of the main character as the viewer cannot…

Music has been in culture since the beginning of time. To most it gives them pleasure or comfort to listen to a soft beat and a soothing voice. To other it could be instrumental or a heavier music that lets them think. Music has been found important enough to be brought into some schools so that they may flourish and grow with their instrument, voice, and creationism. But some schools have cut funding for music programs seeing them as useless and unneeded. While the budget may not support it,…

Plato once said, "Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and everything." Plato, a revolutionary philosopher, changed the way people thought and weren't the fondest of the arts. Surprisingly, Plato likes music and describes music as a moral law. Then like most laws, a person is needed to carry out such law. This person would then have a vocation to plan music in the church. Church was once a vehicle for the…

Music education has been widely considered as dispensable for some time, making music programs the target of numerous budget cuts and possible complete removal from schools. Despite the large debate over the inclusion of music education in schools, research has found that musical training can improve various cognitive processes and skills, such as the development of language, reasoning, pattern recognition, and memory. Along with musical perception, musical cognition is actively constructed by…

Lines of melodious music filled my ears as I listened to Clair de Lune by Claude Debussy shortly after my eleventh birthday. I imagined myself playing notes on a piano creating euphonious sounds. In that moment, I decided to ask my mother for piano lessons at our local music store. I do not regret that decision, but I long to redo what I did that Saturday after my first lesson. Elated by my mother’s approval, I signed up with a teacher named Floyd. That Saturday afternoon my mother and I sat…

students be required to take a music, drama, or an art class? In my opinion they should. One if you take them you learn knew things or techniques. In music you would learn how to multi-task. In drama you would be able to stand up in front of crowds of people and speak or perform, and in art you would learn the different parts of drawing. In this passage you will read through the reasons why i think taking these classes should be required. Me, being a student taking a music class it has taught…

brains (Miendlarzewska). Students who participate in music have consistently higher performance in advanced mathematics: students who had arts-rich experiences in high school were more likely to complete a calculus course (Caterall). Additionally, the same study concluded that in musicians,…

from before I was born, music was an enormous part of my life. Both of my parents graduated from Baldwin-Wallace’s Conservatory in the 1980s: my mom with degrees in both music education and horn performance, and my dad with a degree in music education. My mom is now a music teacher in a small, rural school district in New York, and my dad is the senior high band director and music department chair in another district. Additionally, my grandfather started the local music store that has now been…