This week’s material gave me a complex understanding of what music is. It helped me to see that music isn’t just words and instruments and in fact more than that. Music is a powerful source of communication and in a different way than how we normally communicate. Just like any other form of communication we are able to share meanings, spread information, and emotions just in this case with sounds. Watching Music as Communication helped to understand this because i had no idea music could be a form of communication using sounds. Just like any other way of communicating it connects people.
The film about El Silbo showed how music and communication contribute. The whistling language they use La Gomera is a form of communication that has historically developed through time mimicking similar whistling languages. This shows that music communication connects people in different ways. Regardless of the culture, and location.
The sound used in music is what i believe draws a person to a type of music. It’s all about how it makes that person feel, emotions can be a major element to music. The sound is what engages people to listen and when people are drawn to a specific kind of sound they will want to listen to it more. Music and sound specifically cause emotional responses and define the mood of the person. So because most of the time listening to music can bring a happy response and people like listening to music that makes them happy, that brings to my idea of why sound is what draws a person to a type of music.
When it comes to music i go based on the rhythm and the feeling the music evokes. This is because i listen more for an emotional response and “musical pleasure”. I listen for the sound and how it makes me feel, more specifically how good of a mood it can put me in. I read an article about “Why we are moved by music” and how it affects how we behave and music can mimic emotions. A slow tempo sound supposedly expresses sadness, and a faster tempo expresses happiness. However, i am the complete opposite and noticed slower tempo music brings more happiness to me than faster. So as music is a language of emotion, this shows how much it contributes to how we behave and why our emotions can base what type of music we listen to.
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