The Sound of Music

The amount of joy I, and my friends have gotten from playing this music has inspired me to want to compose music. This experience highlights that composing music brings many people joy, helps, and inspires them. As a music composer, one could compose for animation, video games, or movies, to have fun composing while affecting humanity. One profession that involves composing music is an animation score writer. All types of music has its style and rules, and animation scores are no different.…

Free is the sound we make and judge is what minds do. I have been learning how to improvise on my guitar for almost a year now through the methodologies of jazz music, in which improvisation plays an integral role. Being able to express our thoughts through music is wonderful, and though all musicians express them through the compositions they make and the music they play, there is a particular joy in being able to convey your thoughts into sound with immediacy that attracted me to this…

threshold has music made the biggest progress? This is a very difficult question because music We do know that it’s not before the sixth threshold. Animals before humans may have been able to make sounds, or melodies. But this is not really music, because humans created the concept of music. Historians don't know exactly when music started. Mostly because they can’t find any proof of it. But it’s very likely that music has been around as long as humans have been around. So this means that Music…

modern era, musicians continue to play music that is reminiscent of the past. While new music is continuously produced, there is a desire to keep the musical pieces created by our ancestors alive. To honor the past, some artists have created new music that reflects the classical and baroque styles. In these pieces, the artists are free to use whichever instruments they please to create their musical effect. When a non-early music ensemble performs non-early music in the modern era, they tend to…

cinema today, image and sound are consistently shown to have an intertwined relationship. Often times, the images shown off screen are seemingly meaningless without the sounds surrounding them, and vice versa. In a perfect world, these two aspects of film are combined to complement the story that is being presented, as each brings a side to the story that the other cannot provide. The way that sound is used can often evoke a different meaning to the image on the screen. When sound is used…

Absolute vs. Program Music Paper I honestly believe both sides have good points, but I like absolute music more. Think about it if you have program music that voices only instruments and lacks imagination or inspiration. This kind of music also most times just sounds like instruments playing which is drab. On the other hand, you have absolute music which often uses tonal colors of musical instruments to imitate sounds. These sounds can often be of everyday things or noises you would hear. For…

People love to listen to music. It is a part of everyone’s lives. It is proven that without music every now and then, a person can become depressed. I, however, love to create the music that the people listen to. I do not do it for fame or because I feel forced to, but rather because it is one of my true passions. One reason why music production is my true passion is because I am allowed to be creative and express my artistic ideas. My music production software acts as my paint canvas when it…

Elements of Music: A Closer Look In our everyday life, sound surrounds us almost constantly. With a simple walk to the mailbox, our ears are exposed to a number of sounds. Such as birds chirping, car horns blaring, neighbors laughing, and leaves scrambling. What causes theses sounds, though? How do we interpret them? Espie Estrella, a music education expert, states that sound is created when an object vibrates. Estrella continues by explaining that our ears sense these vibrations and send them…

Throughout the past few decades, our music taste, along with our society, has developed into an expressive community. People of all ages have been using music to express themselves for thousands of years. The 1920s, as well as 2000s are prominently known for their groundbreaking new sound. The two were ferociously popular in their time, but how can two genres, each with a different sound, be so popular? The purpose of the composer, instruments used and the sound produce, are vastly different…

lyric essay. With all these elements considered, the essay “Music Lives” by Taylor Tranberg can indeed be called a lyric essay. In Taylor Tranberg’s essay “Music Lives”, she illustrates the connection between music and all living things. Starting with the exploration of sound, both enjoyable and unpleasant. Then she drifts into a story about Blackbirds, followed by an scrutinize of the tiny birds’ lives. She then flows from Blackbirds to music in general by using a Beatles song lyric involving…