The Importance Of Music In Music

For a little while now I have been asking myself this question: why is this music so important to us? It seems to be a complicated question to answer, but maybe it's not quite as difficult as I thought.

Music has become a crucial element of everyday lifestyle. With the average person listening to four hours and five minutes of music every day, it clearly has a functional role in modern day society. Over the course of two days, I monitored my exposure to music and discovered the role music plays in my life. While it mostly acts as a mood regulation device it also aids my concentration when studying or undergoing a boring task. It has also become apparent how much I limit my exposure to new music on a regular basis. With the help of articles by Michael Bull, Adrian C. North and Tia DeNora I have reflected on the role music has in my life as both a performer and a listener of music.

Growing up in a musical family, I was use to the sounds of various songs and artist played throughout the house, car and family events. My mother, siblings and grandmother sing and have sang in church choirs for many years. Singing with my family, is where I believe music first caught my ear. The instruments, the voices, the beat all coming together to make a song was so interesting to me – I thought it was one of the world’s Thus, this early exposure to music has helped it become what I consider to be a great factor in life. Music can take me to a place where I am free from all stress and worry.

Without music the world wouldn’t be the way it. Music has changed the way people have looked at others, have acted, and how they see the world today. From the beginning of music when it came from banging on something to make their own beat. Music became a hideout for people when they needed a place to send their mind. Musicians are the biggest part of music and making it the way it is. Certain musicians changed the way people started to look at music in the 60s. The 60s were a time for standing up for what the country believed it, a time to show the “overpowered” people that they weren 't afraid. Those people looked to musicians such as; Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Jimi Hendrix, and many others to help them through that difficult time in the country.

Music plays a vital role in human entertainment, history, and society. Dating back over a thousand years, humans have used sounds to create captivating music that intrigues an audience by providing entertainment and emotional release. Music is performed in many forms, including concerts. I will be discussing a Piano Trio Delizia, more specifically, the composition Trio Op.1 No 1 by Ludwig Van Beethoven in E flat major, that was performed on October 11, 2017, in Marlboro Art gallery at Prince George’s Community College by pianist Hyeeun Hahm, violinist Benedict Sin, and cellist Pecos Singer. A piano trio consists of a piano and two string instruments, a violin and cello. During this performance, the four compositions that were performed included Trio Op.1 No 1 by Ludwig Van Beethoven, La Calesita by Marino Mores, Milonga by Alberto Ginastera, and La Vi Llegar by Enrique Francini.

Studies have shown that music helps improve memory, increase focus, helps you become more creative, reduces stress, increases your IQ, and stimulates both left and right brain while studying. Music has been proven scientifically to have beneficial effects on mental development. The Dana Foundation studied the impact of listening to music while taking a test and the scores improved when students were listening to music. While music can help you focus it can also impact and regulate your mood and the best mood to take a test in is a relaxed mood. The four music types we are doing our project on are classical, rock, country, and pop. Studies have shown that Baroque music is the best for stimulating learning, research and work. Baroque music is a type of classical music and is known as the best music to listen to when learning and working as said before. The most important is the type of noise and music. We have found that music you enjoy listening to increases focus and music you don’t enjoy listening to impedes focus.

Since the beginning of civilization humans have had music. We have used music to entertain each other, express emotions, and to enhance our religious beliefs. Human civilization evolves with new technologies and ideas and the same can be said about music too. Music has always been affected by what is happening all over the world. Music over time has been broken down into smaller eras of documented music. The first era of documented music is the Medieval Era and right now the world is in the Contemporary Era of music. I believe that music has been majorly affected by the many worldwide events that have happened throughout time.

Music is not only something you can hear, you can see it and feel it; notes on a scale dance on the page, a rhythmic beat keeps tempo with your heartbeat as the sound penetrates your eardrums. Music is used to pump up an audience before the “BIG game or create an ambiance in a dim restaurant; Music is mood altering. In the movies, music is constantly incorporated within episodes because it is powerful enough to create suspense, romance, fear or joy. Oddly enough, this combination along with the pipeline to prison concept prompted the thought process about the lack of music in public education. “Pomona Unified School District has decreased the funding for music programs, ultimately excluding off-task students from a positive educational experience; therefore, funds should be available to support music in education. By its own nature music is calming, connective, and cognitive which can encourage off- task students to succeed in school.

Studies have shown that music helps improve memory, increase focus, helps you become more creative, reduces stress, increases your IQ, and stimulates both left and right brain while studying. Music has been proven scientifically to have beneficial effects on mental development. The Dana Foundation studied the impact of listening to music while taking a test and the scores improved when students were listening to music. While music can help you focus it can also impact and regulate your mood and the best mood to take a test in is a relaxed mood. The four music types we are doing our project on are classical, rock, country, and pop. Studies have shown that Baroque music is the best for stimulating learning, research and work. Baroque music is a type of classical music and is known as the best music to listen to when learning and working as said before. The most important is the type of noise and music. We have found that music you enjoy listening to increases focus and music you don’t enjoy listening to impedes focus.

Everyone has heard the quote “When words fail, music speaks” by Hans Christian Andersen at least once in their lives. So why isn’t music taught as a language in school?

Music is a meddler. Music has followed me all throughout my life, in car rides, concerts, and parties; generally, every day and every occasion. Apart from being an activity to opt out of perpetual boredom, music has also influenced me in much deeper meaning all throughout my life rather than simply providing me with pure entertainment.

If I had a table that held objects that symbolized my life, on that table I would for sure have a music sheet, a plane, and a car. These objects may seem kind of strange and may have seemed insignificant to me before I had to write this essay, but I now realize that they do in fact relate and symbolize an aspect of my life. Whether it be how music is an important part of my life or how my sister moved away to another country, and early memories of round-tripping with my family, I will explain to you how these things are important to me.

For centuries music, has been an essential part of society, it has provided entertainment for the masses for generations. However, around the 1960s music became something more than just entertainment something more than just something to sing and dance to, but a platform for self-expression and an avenue for the social movements of time. Music enables activism and social justice to be brought to the forefront whether consumers like it or not. At its very core music is art and how those artists over the past five decades have used their medium to bring attention to causes of their choices varies, it universally has become a tool help others and bring attention whether wanted or unwanted to injustices all over the world.

While most parents want their child to become a pro athlete, lawyer, or doctor, it is very uncommon for a parent to want their child to become a musician. The reason being is that the average musician does not make as much money as a pro athlete, lawyer or doctor. When in reality being a musician is not about the money, it is about self expression and elevating the mind which is more valuable than currency. Music is essential to people’s lives because it controls basic human emotions, for example, when one listens to sad songs one declines in mood or if one listens to something upbeat one feels the need to dance. This is called the Greek Doctrine of Ethos which was written in the 4th century B.C.E by the great Greek philosophers Aristotle and Plato. The Doctrine is still relevant today how for numerous reasons “Aristotle, in his politics explains the different kinds of music imitating specific feeling (anger, kindness, love), can affect a human being with the same kind of feelings. Therefore, says Aristotle, someone who listens to the wrong kind of music will grow up to be bad person and become a good person if they listen to good influencing music. Consequently, Aristotle (and also Plato) recommended the right kind of music in the education of young citizens” (The Ancient, 2009). While listening to music stimulates the brain, playing a musical instrument works both sides of the brain. Thus, playing a musical instrument affects a child’s brain development in various ways.

Business administration is a wide field that incorporates types of management positions. Every position needs skilled administrators in order to succeed. Motivated, organized personalities will thrive in business. In those open field that business administration open up you have the opportunity to learn new people, how things works and what job really want to end up doing at the end of time.