Music is usually recorded in a recording studio, where a sound engineer can handle mixing, mastering, and other processes.
Music is the art that consists of giving sounds and silences a certain organization . The result of this order is logical, coherent and pleasant to the ear.
Without a doubt, it is easier to feel and reproduce it than to explain or define it: we all understand what music is, but how many can put into words what its essential characteristics are or what gives it meaning?
The term has its origin in the Latin musica, which in turn derives from the Greek term mousike, referring to the education of the spirit under the invocation of the muses of the arts.
About music
There are various principles that allow the organization of sounds and silences to be carried out. Harmony, melody and rhythm , to name three elements, are issues that must be taken into account when generating music.
What a musician does, whether professional , amateur or even improvised , is try to generate some sensation in the listener. Musical creation stimulates human perception and can entertain people or provide them with some type of information.
Examples of sentences that include this word: "The music teacher congratulated me on my progress with the guitar", "I love listening to music: I can't work without it", "I spend a good part of my income on music, either on tickets to concerts or on records .
Vibrations and silences
When a body vibrates, it produces a movement that modifies the pressure and is transmitted in the air, and can be captured by the ear. That is, neither more nor less, than a sound . When there is no sound, we encounter silence (which, unlike what one might think, can never be absolute due to the existence of the atmosphere).
Music, in short, consists of combining sounds and silences . The sounds, in turn, can be infinite, since it is possible to work with countless variations of duration, intensity, pitch or timbre .
It is interesting to mention that the pitch and duration of sounds are known as notes . These notes are written on a staff along with other signs, such as clefs. In a staff, in this way, the score that explains how the interpretation of a composition must be carried out can be recorded.
It is possible to make music with instruments as dissimilar as the accordion , harmonica, ukulele, harp, bassoon or marimba .
The origin and meaning of music
Music is an art that has accompanied human life since the beginning of history. According to certain theories, its origin took place from trying to imitate the sounds that existed in nature and sounds coming from the internal part of the human being, such as the heartbeat. The discoveries that have been made around this art show that concepts of harmony already existed in prehistoric music.
Over time, hundreds of theories were developed to explain the meaning of music , what no one can determine with certainty is what it is about sounds that can touch our nervous system and excite us to points that nothing else can. Music has, therefore, a lot of mystery, of magic , and presents to us a world that we are not fully capable of understanding but to which we arrive again and again in an irrevocable way.
Much more than an art
Music is not only an art that many people turn to to fill their lives with happiness, there are also therapeutic actions that use music as an element: music therapy is one of them. It consists of a scientific application of sound, music and dance through a treatment that attempts to integrate the cognitive, the emotional and the motor, which releases bad feelings and allows one to encounter the energy of each being, helping to improve the communication, individual expression and social integration. Music therapy is used in case of illness or physical or social dysfunction, so that an individual is rehabilitated and re-educated emotionally , intellectually and motor-wise.
It can be said that music has three components that make it unique: the sound, the temporal and the intellectual . The sound is represented by sounds united in a specific way, the temporal has to do with the specific moment in which the sounds must be represented and executed and the intellectual is associated with the influence that a certain sound movement can cause in a individual, influencing their mood and modifying other aspects of their life through it. Possibly in thoroughly understanding these three components lies the answer we are looking for , why we have this incredible need to make or listen to music.
Ludwig van Beethoven was a prominent German composer and pianist who is considered a musical genius.
Genres in music
Genres in music are categories that allow works to be grouped based on certain shared characteristics. The concept is usually used as equivalent to style, with which both notions refer to the same thing in colloquial language.
Rock , pop, jazz , blues , reggae and hip hop are some of the most popular genres or styles. There are also classifications such as classical music , electronic music , folk music and country music , among many others.
Sometimes, geographical or linguistic issues are appealed to to establish the distinction. Thus one can speak of Latin music or Anglo-Saxon music , to mention a few possibilities.
If we take the case of rock , the compositions are usually performed with guitar, electric bass and drums . A rock band, however, may have a violinist and someone who plays the trumpet or saxophone .
Considering classical music, also called academic or concert music , it is music that is usually performed by a symphony orchestra with double basses, violas, cellos, clarinets, trombones, oboes, tubas and timpani , among other instruments. A director is in charge of coordinating the musicians.
Opera , in this framework, is considered part of classical music. In this musical theater genre there are sopranos , tenors, baritones and other singers with different registers.