The Use and Overuse of Music Essay

Some well known keyboard players include Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, and Debussy. A popular keyboard that is still used today is the organ. The organ ranges in size from a small closet to an entire church. An organ has from two to eight manuals that can have completely different sounds. Air is pushed through pipes to make the many sounds that can be played on a pipe organ. (Raeburn 11) he most known keyboard, the piano, was improved in this era from the harpsichord. The piano has eighty-eight keys with seven octaves plus a few keys. According to “Musical”, sound is made by hammers that strike the strings to vibrate them (“Musical”). The harpsichord was the precursor to the piano. Instead of hitting the strings, the harpsichord would pluck them to make a more metallic sound. The spinet was a small upright piano that is similar to the harpsichord. Another instrument is the virginal. Like the spinet, it is also similar to the harpsichord (“Elizabethan“). Keyboards were and still are the most known class of instrument. This era gave us variations and new keyboards to use and

Music it’s always changing and evolving and it has also been around forever during the last 150 years we have seen many changes. Thinking about in the past before the only way to listen to music was only trough event or concert so it was quite difficult to experience to listen to music at home until recording disc and vinyl got created Back in the past we used to have Cassette Tapes which were use a lots in car. After that we had Cd’s album which you can still get in the shop but they are not that common like they used be before and then form there we converted to Mp3’s which is a different way to get music and that’s is from the internet. Followed by that they created music streaming services which made a big impact on how to listen

My first ever concert I went to was one that I did not want to go to. I was seven years old and my parents, being season ticket holders for the Chattanooga Symphony, thought it would be a good experience for me to go. I of course, fell asleep before intermission and ended up sleeping through the remainder of the concert. This would be the first of many symphony concerts I would be dragged to against my will and I only grew to slightly dread going to them less. However by going to these concerts I learned numerous musical concepts and styling that I am now able to pick out in my music tastes even in genres such as rap and hip hop. While as a whole classical music is irrelevant in pop culture music, the use of classical music styles and samples

This was the day I had been dreading. I was participating in the Seattle Young Artists Music Festival, an event where students share their music with a small class and receive a lesson from the teacher. My violin teacher and my parents decided that this event would develop my musical skills, so they registered me with enthusiasm. I, on the other hand, was not so enthusiastic. I had never honestly enjoyed performing in the past and I was especially nervous about this event knowing that I would receive a music lesson from an expert violinist after my performance. It did not help to hear stories of strict, criticizing, and rude teachers from my siblings who had previously done this event either. I wondered how any good could come from this event. Though only flippantly, I even considered what would happen if I pretended to be ill or purposely injured my finger. However, before I knew it, the dreadful day arrived and I realized I would just have to go for it.

The radio increased the interest of music and its popularity. It declined when people grew out of the style. it also took a decline during the second world war. many of the musicians were away in war and so people couldn't make music.

The classical period of the musical coincided with the heyday of the Hollywood studios from the early thirties to the early fifties. The conventions of the integrated musical were formed in the Astaire--Rogers musicals made at RKO in the thirties and the form peaked at MGM in the forties and early fifties, most notably in films produced by Arthur Freed.

Music; Indefinable by words alone. It is not only something you can hear but what you can feel. It is something your soul is able to reach out and touch. Music also has the power to bring us as humans, together. It is one language spoken by all cultures, sexes, races, age and religions. Music also controls our emotions; it makes us happy, sad, angry, relaxed, etc. We also can express ourselves through music. It can affect our personality.. someone who listens to classical, like Mozart or Bach, all the time is going to be smarter and more intellectual than someone who listens to rap or metal, and someone who listens to more upbeat happier music, like Ska or Swing, is more likely to

“What do you like listening to?” It’s a question that receives numerous answers, yet all vary from person to person. When people ask me, I can never give them a definite answer. It’s not because I don’t listen to the wide genre of music or I don’t wish for them to know what I like. It’s actually due to me not being able to explain it in a simple manner. Music brings in what other cannot do. It’s able to tell a story, be entertaining, and make me feel something in a span of a few minutes. Music and what it brings, whether it’s being broadcasted on the radio or me playing music on the violin, has and will be an important part of my life. The importance of music relies heavenly on its ability to tell a story, be entertaining, and make me feel something just from one song.

Many of the technological inventions have changed and advanced American’s culture. However the radio is one of the most remarkable inventions in the history. The radio used to be necessity in people's lives from 19th century to the early 20th century, before TV was invented. While new media options –TV, laptop, and mobile phone are invented and available now, the radio is seen as old-fashioned media device in today’s society.

In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, the United States was remade to a new world. With huge numbers of the immigrants into U.S, the rapid growth of the cities as well as the beginning of mass culture, U.S had gone through the industrialization and U.S itself had changed in many aspects. Music was one of them. At the very first, music was only known within a village or a city. It was not spread out the whole nation. However, with the industrialization, music was brought to many people throughout the country. Commercials, advertisements, and economic industry played a quite expressed role in order to promote music to be known. Within the rise of the mass

Since I was a child I have always enjoyed a wide variety of music. This would include: Queen, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Boy George, Journey, Cyndi Lauper, Clint Black, Blake Shelton, Matt Maher, Hill Song, Beatles, Elvis, Bach and Beethoven to name a few. For me music fills the soul and creates so many emotions and memories that are so vividly represented it feels as if the event just happened. My interests in music vary widely within most genres.

Music has been around since ancient times and developed very much in these times. Music was used in marriages, funerals, ceremonies(religious), theater, folk music, and other forms of entertainment or ceremonies. The Egyptians were some of the first to develop increased complex instruments like flutes, harps, pipes, and lutes. Afterwards, the Greeks developed their own musical notation system and developed various musical scales using math. Music in ancient Greece was especially used in theater, several of Homer's epics(poems) were originally sung with musical accompaniment. Music eventually expanded more and more from ancient times leading to the classical music era were much regarding music was discovered.(Wikipedia)

All throughout history, mankind can be found making sound by plucking on deer skin and banging rocks together. However, as we progress we evolved and so did music as a whole. One of the musical instruments that can adapt to all octaves is the pianoforte, or more commonly, the piano. In order to understand how pianos affected history, we need to understand how the piano got its name, came about, and evolved to the three main types of pianos we now have in modern day society.

The first piano was made in 1709. A man name Bartolomeo Cristofori created the piano. He was from Florence, Italy. Cristofori had been a maker of harpsichords. A harpsichord is a musical instrument kind of like a piano. It uses strings and a keyboard. A key on the keyboard is pushed and a string is plucked. The strings are tight. When pulled up and then let go, or plucked, they make a musical note. The piano also uses strings and a keyboard. In a piano the strings are not plucked. The strings are hit by soft hammars. This way a person can control how loud the musical note is. A person can also control how long the note lasts. The person playing the piano had more control over the music. By 1800, the piano had becoming more popular than the

As you can see, music and dance are very influential in the culture of Brazil. Therefore, music education is also important in the lives of the Brazilian people. Children are exposed to music from an early age through family and community. Unfortunately, music education is not highly regarded in the school system. The amount of music education differs greatly by school and teachers. Most public schools do not have a special music teacher or department. In order to be well educated in music a student would need to attend a private school or a conservatory. As we transition into talking about education, we see that there are many different positives and negatives to school in southern Brazil.