Essay about music importance
The world music may be used to two sense. It
may mean sounds so combined as to make a pleasant impression on the mind, as
when we say. The music played by the orchestra at the concert was very line, or
it may means that art of composing or of producing such pleasing sounds, as
when we say. A person who has the genius to compose beautiful music, or who is
an expert player on a musical instruments is called a musician.
All sound is not music. Many sounds, like
loud shouting, the roar of traffic in the streets, the barking of dogs are
simply noises. Mere noise, and discords (that is, the sounding of notes together
which do not agree), produce no pleasing effects on the mind, but on the
contrary are often irritating and disturbing. It is only when the sound are so
combined that they pleas the ear, and have a soothing, inspiring or pleasantly
exciting effect on the hearers, that they become music. Why certain
combinations of sound pleas us, while others irritate and disgust us, we cannot
tell any more than we can explain why we call some things beautiful, and others
ugly.
Music, then, we may say consists of
beautiful sounds. But as people's ideas of what is beautiful differ very much,
so there are many kinds of music, some of which pleas some people and do not
pleas others,-- from the magnificent com-positions of musicians of genius. Only
people of educated musical taste can appreciate the former and they find no
pleasure in the latter while the common people are bored with what is called
classical music, and find pleasure only in what musicians would call vulgar
tunes. But this is not peculiar to music.
It is the same with all arts. For example,
untrained eyes and minds cannot appreciate the great pictures of artists of
genius, but prefer highly colored daubs ; and the crowed prefers trashy and
sensational novels to classical literature.
Good music often has a wonderful effect upon
the feelings of even ignorant people. One poet has said. ''Music hath charms to
soothe the savage Brest''; and the poet Dryden asks, ''What passion cannot music
raise and quell?'' The regimental bands put courage and enthusiasm for battle
into the hearts of marching troops; the solemn and stately music of the organ
fills the worshipper in church and cathedral with awe and reverence and the
sense of the Divine presence. Soft and sweet music soothes the worried, the
worried, and the sad mothers send fretful children to sleep with gentle
lullabies; and old song will bring tears to the eyes of the lonely exile; and
grand music will fill strong men with great hopes and ambitions. ''What passion
cannot music raise and quell?''