What is music to you - Page 2

Music is pure
Music touches your heart
Music has no boundries.
Music makes you happy

Originally posted by: soulsoup

WOW!

"I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music." - George Eliot

Exactly, is it not so true. Great quote.
Music has been found to accelerate the growth of organisms, so i guess there is a lot of truth about infusing strength doesn't it.

If I am bored I just turn into the radio and listen to the music. Sometimes to I starting dancing as well. When I am sad or happy I start listening to music. Music can't be ignored by any1. It is just so soothing 😛 . Music is reallly very essential in my daily activity.

Ps- Nice topic and achiever very well written and Amol the quote is very very true. 😛

Found this def on the Internet


Music, artful arrangement of sounds across time. This definition is obviously very broad, but a narrower one would exclude too much. Music is part of virtually every culture on Earth, but it varies widely among cultures in style and structure. Definitions of music can change dramatically over a short time, as they have across the world during the 20th century.

Can music exist without sound? Some philosophers argue that music should be defined as a kind of "mental image" and that the physical aspects of sound are simply by-products of this image. If you think you can have a musical experience by imagining the sound of a piece of music, then you think music can exist without sound. But most musical experiences involve producing or listening to physical characteristics of sound such as pitch and timbre (quality comparable to texture or color in sight).

Is the tape-recorded sound of a large metal-stamping machine music? Are 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence music? Is the activity of reading a list of hundreds of seemingly unrelated objects, activities, and states of mind music? Each of these "works", as well as many other sounds (or nonsounds), has been copyrighted as a musical composition, performed, and recorded in the 20th century. One of the legacies of 20th-century music is to have blurred the definition of music as never before.

Other experts argue that whether any particular pattern of sounds (or our mental image of this pattern) is or is not music hinges on the musical culture into which we were born and in which we have grown up. In other words, whether sounds are music or not has more to do with learning than with anything about the physical characteristics of the sounds or the inborn characteristics of people. An American or European, hearing for the first time a Javanese gamelan performance or singing by the Ewe people of West Africa, might feel disoriented and disappointed by the unfamiliar and seemingly meaningless sounds of these kinds of music. Similarly, Javanese or Ghanaian listeners might feel every bit as disappointed when they first hear the music of Austrian composer Franz Schubert or the songs of a popular rock group, and they might find these equally meaningless.

American jazz great Duke Ellington once stated that there were only two kinds of music—good and bad. Music is pleasing to its loyal audiences who have learned to distinguish nuances of style and may be able to identify their favorite performers by sound. It may be less than pleasing to others, who may comprehend so little of the music that they think it all sounds alike. Music can also be performed well or poorly. These judgments are made within a musical culture, according to what that culture believes about music. It is obvious how important the composer and the performer are in musical communication, but the importance of the audience's knowledge and active participation in music is often underestimated or ignored.

Most musical cultures divide into so-called art music and music of the people, though these two categories are not always distinct. Art music demands a high level of training on the part of the performer and a relatively high level of sophistication on the part of the audience. Popular and folk styles of music can become equally sophisticated, but they tend to start out being easier to perform and more easily understood by a wider audience. Almost every musical culture has subcultures, and these subcultures often have their own subcultures. Western music is one of the clearest examples of a multi-layered musical culture.

Music is relaxing for the heart and mind. I think it's because it engages your senses and you subconciously process that info, that it keeps you from getting easily distracted by other things (such as whining etc 😆 )

Music is a gift from God. Music is a way to connect with my soul. Music
is a way to connect with people across different languages; backgrounds
and cultures. Music is a getaway from the pressures of the world.

Music is also a way to connect with a child who cannot process speech,
my autistic son who could not talk for 4 years but who always loved
music. For most of you, SRGM is a form of entertainment and a platform
for new singers. For my little boy, it is a tool that help him organize his
body and recharge his mind for his grueling damily therapies. To most
people, music is an optional pleasure. For my son it is a life line (well
FF the Ajmeri baba commercials).

Please take this opportunity to rejoice in all of life pleasures including
music and life's pleasures. Thanks.

Originally posted by: mdroy

Music is a gift from God. Music is a way to connect with my soul. Music
is a way to connect with people across different languages; backgrounds
and cultures. Music is a getaway from the pressures of the world.

Music is also a way to connect with a child who cannot process speech,
my autistic son who could not talk for 4 years but who always loved
music. For most of you, SRGM is a form of entertainment and a platform
for new singers. For my little boy, it is a tool that help him organize his
body and recharge his mind for his grueling damily therapies. To most
people, music is an optional pleasure. For my son it is a life line (well
FF the Ajmeri baba commercials).

Please take this opportunity to rejoice in all of life pleasures including
music and life's pleasures. Thanks.

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Very well said, my sister's son also has the same problem. Fortunately for him though music is always around the house. She is a trained singer and her husband is a trained instrumentalist. I have seen him transcend into something else when she is singing or his father is playing the flute. He cannot walk properly but when he hears the music he actually makes a effort which is really gruelling for him. No other motivation can make him do his daily exercises. Frankly speaking i think he knows more about music then i do. Music really has great mystical qualities. The doctors have said that no physical or psychological therapy is going to cure him but am damn sure that the power of music will do the miracle one day.

Music is my frnd, company, my shadow.

All applicable to good music only
Music is the purest form of devotion, music is like the innocence I see on my daughters face when she is sleeping, music is oasis – in the desert called life. Music is like first love. Music is like shadow of a cool cloud on a hot sunny day! Music is the healing toch on my soul – make me fall in love again and again with life!