According to The World of Music by David Willoughby music is sounds that you want to hear as music. It also states that music serves different purposes: to entertain, to uplift, to stimulate feelings and responses and to enhance certain rituals. Throughout this course Music 1301 I have listen to many different styles and formats of music. There have been many different styles that I have listen to that have done this for me, and I will list and compare some for this paper.…
From the reading “How We Listen”, I found the ideas that Aaron Copland presented are interesting. I was entreated by his explanation of listening to music. There are three layers in listening to music, they are the sensuous plane, expressive plane, and the sheerly musical plane. I found myself mostly in the expressive plane, but lack of the awareness of listening music through a more technical mean.…
Listening to music is what most people do to entertain themselves or simply because it’s their passion. Others don’t like listening to music as much but Oliver Sacks writes about how a few people began to appreciate music after experiencing…
listen for particular purposes and listen for and manipulate sound combinations and rhythmic sound patterns.…
Music has always been a part of us ever since the begging of time. It’s been with us threw the happy, great times and also for the not so happy bad times. We can express ourselves with music by telling a story with in the lyrics and even with the beat showing, telling how we are feeling. It can be a cheerful, carefree, joyful beat, to gloomy, mournful, blue beat, but not everyone has the same taste in music. Music it’s self is unbelievably stunning and so breathtaking.…
Aaron Copland’s essay of How we Listen divides the listening of music into 3 different planes, (1) the sensuous plane, (2) the expressive plane, (3) and the sheerly musical plane. In each of the sections, Aaron defines illustrate and compares the planes against each other. Copland says most people listen to music in the primitive “sensuous plane”, listening simply for sheer pleasure. The “expressive plane” is when listeners try to find the meaning behind the notes, what the piece is saying, and what the piece is about. The third plane goes into the aspects of music and how it should be listened to. Copland had started his essay in an attempt to explain listening to music but ends off persuading the reader to enter into a more active kind of…
Music is an art based on the organization of sounds in time. Also the universal language of man or something who knows…
Listening is the process of taking in what we hear and mentally organising it; it involves:…
Music is something we hear everyday. Whether it be from our own phones, in our cars, or background music we hear everyday. There are songs that defines almost every emotion we have. Music has been around forever, each sound and every type intertwine together to influence more and more music. Music has the power to recreate memories and define a generation of kids. Throughout out the years there has been many different types of music. Such as Rap and Hip-Hop, Country and one of the most popular Rock And Roll.…
Music transcends sensory input. The strong vibrations creating sound waves that express emotions of poetry with or without words. Through music, I escape mundane routine; my exploration of another side of…
Music is an unavoidable ingredient in everyone’s life. Whether its music we play by personal choice or music we hear in supermarkets or a retail store. Society will hear music. What comes along is what will affect the listener.…
Music is one of the most powerful forces on this earth. Not only does it greatly impact our lives in ways we may not always be aware of, it can instantly change ones emotion or mood and can also heal ones spirit, along with making memory more real than ever. Music is a very positive experience, it brings joy to many in times of sadness. It can be a way to get away from everything, a way to “escape”. Humans are made and wired to respond to music, to be impacted by it.…
People listen to music for a variety of reasons. Some listen to music to relax in which it serves as a sort of escape from everyday life, some because they are a fan and follow a certain artist, and others because they can relate the lyrics to their own personal experiences. Whichever the case may be, music has and continues to serve an important role in people’s lives.…
Music is a profound entity; it gives and takes, is forgiving or stubborn, and can change a person’s life immensely. I never expected my passion for music to take me on not only a rigorous academic journey, but an enormous spiritual journey as well.…
and see music is involved in some form or another. Be it a piece played at a…