Posted in: Musicouching by The Ubiquitous Raven on November 10th, 2008 | 0 Comments
Attempts to give an understanding of Music and what it is, detailing it’s change through time and some of the songs and bands that helped shape it’s sound.
For as long as humanity has existed, one aspect of life has stuck with us and never let go, then again we ourselves would not let it go because no one can seem to live without it. No, I’m not talking about everyones favorite neighborhood chemical Oxygen I’m speaking of Music. Humans just LOVE music, and for good reason.
“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
-Berthold Auerbach
But what makes Music so amazing? Well there are short and long answers, but there is no correct answer Music is simply too vast, too unified but so vastly different, everyone has their opinions on Music and that’s exactly what Music is, an opinion, in many forms. One musicians idea of what will entertain and excite is just as much an opinion as one musician who’s idea of what will enlighten and entertain, and both are equally correct as they are wrong because there is always a balance of the two in forms of opinion, but one thing all musicians and listeners can agree upon is that music, it it’s simplest form and no matter what his/her artists intention, evokes feeling and thought.
“You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed? “
-Bryan Ferry
From the timeless and entrancing sounds of Classical Music from composers such as Beethoven and Mozart to the in your face powerful Barock and Roll (Ba”rock” and Roll in honor of Barack Obama) of Alice Cooper, Rolling Stones,Zeppelin and AC/DC. Music, from the above, clearly shows it has many forms to suit it’s many followers which in essence is the entire world, and seeing as no human (besides Joe Six-pack and Joe The Plumber of course) is entirely the same it to must evolve with us. Because of the synergy between Music and Humans it is clear why Music has stayed with us and always will, it is a form of expression on the highest echelon and is endlessly capable of changing it’s way of expression to suit our change (“Change” get it? Someone promised us that) and state of being. We want what we want, pure and simple, it’s how we were engineered and it is how we operate, Music is no different we have engineered it and continue to pioneer it’s new forms to grow just as we do and to take on meaning in life, just like we do.
