The Defination of Music

Music. I spend more than dickens hours tricking, singing, or listening to medicine everday. Almost everything I do involves medical specialty. I love it it can lift my spirits, or tell me a story. But, what is medicine? Is it something you can dance to? Something that is good turned or sung? Is it something that has balance, or sounds loving? What is music? It is de lovelyd as An art form consisting of sequences of sounds in time, including t integritys of defined pitch organized melodic anyy, harmonic wholey, and rhythmically. To me, music means renderion. When I was six years old, I acquired my first CD player.I didnt get any CDs with it, so I used my parents. One CD that I picked up was by Mindy McC piss. I didnt understand what the songs were astir(predicate), but I knew I really enjoyed the beat of the songs, the instruments in each piece, and the sound of her voice. I would al commissions be singing my own words to her songs and I cute to learn how to shit music li ke she did. She influenced me in a charge I didnt understand at the time, but I knew I treasured to know more most the way her songs worked. I wanted to know how to make something that sounded similar to her songs, and how to make it my own.That CD is what made me finalize in love with the concept of, and the idea itself, known as music. In third grade, only two years after I realized how much I liked music, I started piano lessons with the keyboard player from my church. His make up was Larry, he was a capacious inhalant to me. Larry asked me on my first lesson if schooling piano was something I really wanted to do, or if it was just something my parents were having me do. I told him, much more seriously than a third grader should be able to, it was something I needed to do to be able to more all the way understand music and that I was flavour forward to every lesson we would have.One hebdomad later, on my next lesson, I stared to learn my scales. Normally, it takes stu dents months to learn and memorize all of the scales, but it took me only a few weeks. I was much more musical comedyly gifted then anyone realized and I quickly took on galore(postnominal) other instruments. From third to seventh grade, I learned how to play the piano, guitar, bass, saxophone, french horn, trumpet, clarinet, and flute. I also took choir, training my voice to be the exceed it could be. The way I could express myself differently through every one of these instruments, made everyday a joyous adventure.I used the instruments as an wall socket when I was happy, the music would be loud and bouncy. Yet when I was upset, the music would be mournful, slow, and quiet. I conveyed my feelings through the music. The more I learned about music, the more open I became with choices. Before I became a heap geek, I was quiet and refined. I didnt talk to many good deal and I didnt have any intention on changing that. After I joined two bands though, my life switch overd drasti cally. both(prenominal) classes would result in a different me.When I would play music in my jazz band, I would leave the class excited and ready to try new things. When I would go to symphony, my choices would be more eyeshot out, longer, and with more depth to them. Every piece I played would change my day depending on how much I enjoyed the piece, and who I was playing it with. The people in band are a big reason wherefore I love music. If youre sitting alone in a room, playing a keyboard, you are not going to be having near as much fun, or being as artistic with your musical choices, then if your with a few of your best friends, all who play instruments or sing.An instance of this is from a year ago, when I had a mentor in symphonic band. He was an amazing saxophone player who loved people. I was his second in command, and for being that, he taught me a few of his tricks on how he became such a beloved actor and person. He showed me how to play music with more expression i n singular notes instead of looking at the piece as a whole. He helped me on extemporisation and on making a piece personal. He also showed me how to fine tune a musical piece how to make the different split work together harmoniously, and how to then play it correctly.He was a great inspiration to me and I am sad he graduated, but overjoyed I had the opportunity to be taught by such a natural endowmented musician for our time. After learning so much from such a great mentor, I began to question how my music could be improved and how I could express myself better. I knew about harmony and melody, and how to balance them I knew about all the different instruments in different kinds of bands. Yet, I wanted to push my boundaries and compel a better instrumentalist.A great musician once said, Then allow us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, germinate as fully as we can with the gifts God has given us, and neer stop learning (Beethoven). To me , this means you shouldnt stop when you think youre at your best. Always push forward, creating your own limits and dont driblet into societys expectations. This is how I captureed music it was something I could never deposit a limit on and striving for perfection was the only way to be successful with it. To this day, I try my best with music, I make it my own, and I love to play it.There is nothing else like it, for music is all over all people know some type of music, and it affects every person in a different way. I enjoy music greatly, and commit I will be able to continue learning about it for the rest of my life. The expression used to create music is an unexplainable talent that anyone could utilize, and without it, the days of life would be dull and boring. The way I view it, and as my band director tells me daily, music equals life. SAU Library, + Beethoven, the Music and the Life. + by Lewis Lockwood. publishing house W. W. Norton & Company 1st edition (December 16, 2002) + October 1st 2011