A very good morning to my English
Teacher, Madam Juliana and my fellow classmates. I am here today to share the
definition of music with all of you. Well, everyone seems to know that but when
we are trying to define the term music, there appear some difficulties. One can
define music as an artful organization of sound and silence. This is mostly a
formal description. Referring to subjective feelings, we may also add that this
organization should be pleasant to hear, melodic and harmonic. Modern artists
also use the combination of music and words to make their songs, and we also
call this art music. In general words, the attitude and tastes to music, and
the whole understanding of muss is defined by our perception. It’s also a known
fact that deaf people can hear the vibrations of music, and there are several
examples of deaf people who played or even created music.
There can be also
outlined 6 different types of meaning in music. The first is general meaning of
music, the combination of sounds, it is related to the formal definition of
music and is represented in any type of music; this type of meaning deals with
the impression that music creates in the whole, the way that sounds re
connected between each other.
The second meaning
involves the emotions put into music. The phenomenon of music is that people
from different countries and cultures, people knowing different languages can
understand and feel what the author wanted to express by this or that song or
melody. It is clearly seen in classical music which is usually not accompanied
by words but nevertheless touches the hearts of millions of people all over the
world. We may say that music can carry information and emotions like an
international language: this is the second meaning.
The next meaning of
music considers the fact that music may use associations: this meaning is
connected more with music accompanied by words or images. Once a particular
image is associated in our memory with an image or a feeling, this very
combination may cause the same feeling when repeated.
The fourth meaning
includes referencing in music: a certain piece or song may touch memories of
another event or even piece of music and remind it with similar motives or
melodies; in this way an artist may also send his emotions to the listeners.
The next meaning is
related to words that accompany the music: the story of how composer was
feeling or in what situation he was while writing the piece can change our
understanding and impression of the piece; the stories in the opera also make
the meaning and emotional mood of an opera extract closer to the listener.
And finally the last
meaning explains how words connected with music may change our perception of
it: this meaning is one of the mostly related to modern song writers and modern
music. There are artists who put more emotions and information into the melody
or rhythm of the song, and there are artists who rely mostly on words, in this
case music stands on the second place. With the development of technique and
the possibility of writing CD’s more and more artists write songs accompanied
with words rather than purely instrumental music.
