With the word music is designated that art of organizing in a sensitive and logical way the coherent combination of silences and sounds using as guiding parameters to carry out and to good port such activity the fundamental principles of melody, harmony and rhythm, which will be subjected and intervened, in addition, by complex and sometimes unpredictable psycho-psychological processes.
Although the concept of music and what is understood by it has evolved over the years, of course moving away from the primarily unitary conception that was promoted in antiquity, placing it together and inseparably from other expressions such as poetry and dance, never lost, but on the contrary, always preserved that purely artistic origin that will define and determine it and that is ultimately what will be evoked when today some composers mistakenly call something as music and that for course escapes the traditional and popular concept.
The main task that music of yesterday, today and always has, had and will have is to provoke some kind of reaction or aesthetic experience in the listener.because with music ideas, feelings, thoughts will be expressed, some sad circumstances, others more joyful, but always, always, the purpose will be to communicate a matter and that of course this generates a reaction in those who listen to it, that is to say , never, a piece of music may not produce anything to those who listen to it, even if it is producing unpleasant reactions such as rejection or repulsion for its melody or for what it says, a piece of music will be more than fulfilling its purpose, which is to provoke a result in the other.
The music is composed of two basic elements that are the sounds on the one hand and on the other the silences. Sound is what sounds, the sensation perceived by our ears, permeable to those pressure variations generated by the vibratory movement of sound bodies and which are basically transmitted by air. And silence is the perceptible absence of sound.
The relevance of music for the human being
In addition to these intrinsic and extrinsic considerations, music, then, served, serves and will serve human beings so that we create climates, situations, to accompany some of our worst or best moments, to cover uncomfortable silences, a feeling of loneliness, to have fun, to fall in love, that is to say, plain and simple, music can accompany whoever wants it that way every moment of their life.
Since man set foot in creation and began to interact with his environment, music accompanied him, it was his faithful and tireless companion, which from nature and naturally would provide him with various natural music. There are many theories that justly support this consideration that the origin of music must be found exclusively in nature since it would have arisen from man’s need to imitate some sounds of nature that amazed his ears.
It is also important that we emphasize that music is surrounded by a very special mystique since it amazes and amazes and cannot be explained with much rationality even that direct and unanimous emotion that it produces when it reaches the human ear.
We can verify this unique imprint of music simply when we listen to a song that suddenly and without having heard it before makes us cry with emotion and for no reason. We refer to this circumstance when we talk about the magical power that music has always held in people.
Music heals: music therapy
Music is happiness, it is entertainment, it is pleasure, but it is also an efficient therapeutic action when applied scientifically within the framework of a patient’s recovery treatment. There are many ways to apply music in the field of health and there are also many therapeutic cases in which it can be applied and with proven success.
Proof of the above is the diffusion that the practice has reached throughout the world, already being an established and recognized career within the area of medicine.
For example, music therapy improves the cognitive, physical, emotional and spiritual capacity of an older adult.
Also, at the request of pregnancy, music therapy offers many benefits for the baby and the mother. Mainly because it helps them relax during the wait and before the mutual encounter.
And in the treatment of severe mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, dementia, Parkinson’s, among others, music therapy has been shown to be highly effective in curing some of its complex symptoms.
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