The Music Of The Musical Life

When you turn on the radio and change it to your favorite station, what are most of the songs about? In today’s society, the majority of them are probably about sex, drugs, and alcohol. These are the principles mainstream singers like Lil Wayne, Drake and Nicki Minaj are pounding into young people’s minds. Instead of directing their music negatively, these artists should try to encourage respectable behavior among our youth. I believe that the negative lyrics in many popular contemporary songs have a negative influence on the youth of America.

Because Survival is insufficient. The idea painted its way onto the members of the Traveling Symphony and across the sides of their caravan. It is clear from the beginning that the members of the symphony are different than the rest of the survivors. Rather than settle down and attempt to rebuild the lives they lived before the flu -like most people did- they symphony travels around sharing their music and acting with others. Since year five the nomads have banded together to share Shakespeare's classics with the remaining survivors. While they may seem like a completly out of the ordinary group that just happened to find each other, they are quite similar to the other communities they visit. They too have formed some sort of “family” but their home

Ludwig van Beethoven was beaten every day by his father. This was so Ludwig could become a prodigy just like Mozart. His father would deprive him of sleep so that Ludwig could get some extra rehearsal time. This man caused Beethoven to become a genius in music performance and composition. Imagine if he wasn’t made to learn about music. Since he is one of the greatest influential composers in music, his knowledge wouldn’t have been passed down through the generations. Students shouldn’t be forced to learn about music like Beethoven was, but they can choose to love it on their own. They can only get this opportunity if music programs are added to part of their education. When music education classes are added to the curriculum, the children benefit immensely.

The world of music has seen many memorable composers such as Bach, Mozart, Chopin, and Vivaldi, but none of them have a story as amazing as the 18th century classical composer Ludwig Van Beethoven. “His life played out like one of his beautiful symphonies, with unimaginable highs, lows, victories, and defeats,” (Viegas 5). Although he lost his hearing when he was 26 years old, Beethoven was famous for his nine symphonies, and is also recognized as one of the cornerstones of Western civilization through the legacy of his music.

The relationship between music and mood has been studied as far back as ancient Greece. Since then, scientists and researchers have been using music in therapy in an attempt to change and explain emotions. While the beliefs behind the ability to change one’s mood have changed over the millennia, from the idea that the planets control human emotions to modern-day music therapy, it remains an accepted belief in psychological research that listening to music has an impact on the mood and emotion of the listener.

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.

Music is more than just jamming in the car with friends. It has brought diverse groups of people together for as long as mankind can remember. On chilly summer nights communities gather in the park to listen as folk bands play their classic tunes. Cultures share their individualised music with those around them so others gain a higher appreciation for their culture and what it encompasses. Music defines history, personality, culture, and how times have changed.

In this class I have learned about 1500 years’ worth of music. Not too many of us remember vinyl or 8tracks. In my parents’ day, they would sell mixed tapes and mixed CDs at school and local clubs. Now we are a streaming generation with our iTunes and Pandora apps only being a click away on our smart devices. The music industry has changed quite a bit over the last couple of decades and it is all thanks to new technology.

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.

In a world of such vibrant colors, sounds, and breathtaking scenery is something else that can be so beautiful, but so painful at the same time; You can have the language of love that will sweep you off your feet with words of sweet nothings, melody enticing poetry, and floating sounds of harps and flutes dancing upon your ears. Language can also be the tongue of war that oozes with hatred, vengeance, and fear that pierces down to the very core of our being. So what does languages such as these and the many others that fill this vast world around us do for us as an individual, culture, society? Also we must ponder just where language comes from, do you create it or is it creating us?

The history of music has been traced back by researchers to before 2,500 years ago. It was used by the earliest human civilizations known to mankind. Our ancestors used music to worship and practice religious texts. With the use of music in ancient times, it has paved a pathway for artists of all types to express themselves without having to verbally speak. While music was created mainly for religious reasons, it has developed throughout time and there is now over a thousand types of musical genres. New styles of music were not introduced to the public until after The Middle Ages in an era called the Renaissance.

Music influences us on a very deep subconscious level. It flows through us and affects our thoughts, concentration and even behavior. Music has not only represented cultures but has reinforced the ideas on which they were built. Music gives people and identity something that they can relate to. With this paper the author hopes to reveal the great psychological influence music has on both society and the individual.

Music is extremely important. Growing up, music always played a big role in my life. My soul works through music. It also helped me through extremely rough times in my life. When I was 7, I lost my little brother. I was mentally unstable during that period of time and music became the medicine to cure my broken soul.

By walking through with the moonlight, we went to Berklee Colley together with professor Carl Clements to enjoy Danny Harrington and John Baboian quartet for celebrating both of them have been making music together for almost forty years when they began as students at Berklee in 1975, and that partnership has been continued until now. Bruce Gertz played on bass and Phil McGowan on drums. All of them played very perfect jazz music for us. After the concert, I am really interested in jazz music, because I think it is full of inventive and creative that the player can show their emotion such as happiness or sadness in the music.

Present in throughout the Hindu, Greek, and Judaic cultures, is the divine and meticulous use of music in various ways. Similarly between these cultures, music is symbolic of the most important and sacred concepts. The musical elements often exist to celebrate parts of the culture, to provide an element of sound to express spiritually, and to worship one or more Gods. Furthermore, music has occupied a central place in Hindu, Greek, and Judaic cultures, in which there are intrinsic musical principles, an arrangement of different instruments, and several forms and textures within all three cultures.