The Music of Life
How do we understand the language of music? Music is not a language to be learned. Rather it is an emotion that must be felt with the soul. Music in all its forms is heard differently by each and every person based on experience, emotion and fantasy. No matter what culture you belong to, every human hears music differently and interprets it that way. Although it is impossible to translate music as we would words, that does not give the emotion any less meaning or relevance. Sometimes it is the music of life that can shape where we will go, how we will express ourselves, what we will feel and how we will relate to the rest of the world. I venture to say, "music in the rhythm and emotion of life, without it there'd just be words." Every human, whether Caucasian, Native, African, Norwegian or Korean, blind, illiterate, or short, is capable of understanding music. Not only are they capable of creating music in the form of their choice, they are also able to interpret it according to their own emotion. Music is a necessity in our lives and without it, there'd be no meaning. Even infants respond to music. From a fetus within the mothers womb, they recognize the beauty in a tune. It would be odd
Although it is possible to translate the pulsating vibrations of a note, into a sound, that does not mean that it is possible to translate music. Music is far to precise to translate as we would be able to translate words, rather because music is mainly emotions carried on sound, you can not translate emotions. In our culture words mean different things just as do the words of the French or the German, music on the other hand has no formal language. For instance a musically literate person would know that no matter what ethnicity you are, an A sharp is an A sharp no matter where in the world you are. Love is love no matter where you are as is anger. You can not translate these emotions into anything they are not just as you can't translate a note. This is why it would be daft to think of translating one type of music to another, it simply would not work, whereas because words merely express mainly thought, no words could ever-express emotion as a piece of music could. Words are discretional; there is no real like between words and the emotions or thoughts they represent. Words are used to gather what we think and feel, and to express it is bluntly as possible whereas music is simply a cluster of controlled and paneled emotions that all humans share. No matter what situation, music is bound to awaken an emotional response and these responses can greatly influence our spirits as well as the rest of our lives. in a case to care for toddlers and not find them commonly humming a song to themselves. Not only do they mimic tunes but they also create their own medleys in their minds and freely express their emotion. You would find toddlers of every culture doing the same thing. You would, however, find that say Chinese toddlers would likely be humming tunes more closely linked to their own society's music being quick, short intervals of tunes. African children would likely be caught singing an up beat tune rather than a Jamaican child singing somewhat of a Caribbean tune in a syncopated ballad form.
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Approximate Word count = 1561
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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