Affiliations  VBS   Contact   Legal   Mission   Drum craft  Harp Craft   History Music  Home  Site Map Author Youth                                                                                      How does music effect us ?     How does music influences children?        Who invented music? Lets begin with the Elements We teach the children the Elements of music The elements of music often have an implicit concept of time, pitch, and energy. The presence or lack of these elements can be used to classify music. They can be organized into units with interrelated rhythm, harmony, and melody. Organizing musical composition andimprovisation. Music can invoke or convey a sense of motion in time. The word itself comes from the Greek mousikê (tekhnê) by way of the Latin musica. It is ultimately derived from mousa, the Greek word for muse. In ancient Greece, the word mousike was used to mean any of the arts or sciences governed by the Muses. Later, in Rome, ars musica embraced poetry as well as what we now think of as music. Our current understanding of music as being something which is abstract and has nothing to do with language (but something which may be combined with it in song) is relatively modern. Many definitions of music implicitly hold that music is a communicative activity which conveys to the listener moods, emotions, thoughts, impressions, or philisophical, sexual, or political concepts or positions. "Musical language" may be used to mean style or genre, while music may be treated as language without being called such, as in Fred Lerdahl or others' analysis of musical grammar. Levi R. Bryant defines music not as a language, but as a marked-based, problem-solving method such as mathematics (Ashby 2004, p.4). Because of its ability to communicate, music is sometimes described as the "universal language". Yet the "meaning" of music is obviously culturally mediated. For example, in Western society, minor chords are often perceived as "sad", an understanding other cultures rarely share. There is significant complexity in the structural eleme In the European Middle Ages, musica was part of the mathematical musica. The concept of musica was split into three major kinds: . Of those, only the last - musica instrumentalis - referred to music as performed sound. Universe, as God had created it in "measure, number and weight". The proportions of the spheres of the planets and stars (which at the time were still thought to revolve around the earth) were perceived as a form of music, without necessarily implying that any >sound would be heard - music refers strictly to the mathematical proportions. From this concept later resulted the romantic idea of a music of the spheres. Music is a universal languagents of music which warrant the perception of music as a language. For example, genres of music can be characterized by the manner in which sound and silence are articulated, organized, and disseminated. The composition of these elements gives rise to a system which is on par with the complexities and subtleties of 'language'. Music is an Experience Another commonly held definition of music holds that music must be 'pleasant' (determined by the esthesic level) or 'melodic' (determined by the neutral and/or esthesic levels). This view is often used to argue that some kinds of organized sound 'are not music', while others are, based on type of organization or its aesthetic effect. Since the range of what is accepted as music varies from culture to culture and from time to time, more elaborate versions of this definition admit some kind of cultural or social evolution of music, granting that definitions may vary but universals hold. This definition was the predominant one in the 18th century, where, for example, Mozart stated that "music must never forget itself, it must never cease to be music." Facts about Music Music has been around since before humans came into existence. God Created Music  Music was never invented; Birds sing, water drips, leaves rustle, fire crackles, and so on. It might be better to ask, "Who first realized that the world is so filled with music?" No one knows. Caveman used to make music. Pope Gregory the First wrote music around 600 AD Music wasn't "invented" only discovered. Everyone hums, taps, beats, etc. Early indians created music. Music goes as far back as human existence. translate this page    [Back to top]