Thursday, March 1, 2012

Background on Music

http://www.school.eb.com/all/eb/article-9110117?query=music&ct=null
-has the ability to reflect and influence human emotion
-used in psychotherapy, geriatrics, and advertising to affect human behaviour
-the teaching of music in primary and secondary schools has now attained virtually worldwide acceptance
-many components of music. tone, rhythm, timbre, and texture
-electronic machinery enabled some composers to record sounds that were formerly beyond human ability to produce
-from historical accounts, it is clear that the power to move people has always been attributed to music.
-in india, music was put into the servace of religion from earliest times
-Confucius, a chinaman assigned an important place to music in the servace of a well-ordered moral universe. he saw music and government as reflecting one another and believed that only the superior man who can understand music is equipped to govern.

--what is the difference in styles of music compaired to the locations on earth?

1 comment:

  1. I agree with the point that music has the ability to swing human emotion because when ever I tired ore stressed I would listen to music to up my mood.

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