Questions and Answers

1. What is music?
This sounds like a question that would be easily answered. But what really distingushes music from sound?

Here is what some people in the past have said:

"Music gives sound to the universe." - Plato
"The food of love." - Shakespeare
"I would almost say it is a miracle." - Heinrich Heine
"There are only two kinds of music: good music and bad music." - Duke Ellington

Please let me know what you think music is. Think about different sounds and decide if that sound is noise, music, or something else.

Example: The sound of a jack hammer cutting up a sidewalk. It is rhythm, it is a sound. Is it music?

Music is the art of thinking (creating and feeling) with sound. There is a saying that is popular but I don't remember who originally said it, "When words fail, music speaks."

If you have a questions you would like me to answer about learning music please email me at Catherines.Music.Notes@gmail.com


Have a musical day!
Catherine
"Music lessons should be about the student. Each student learns in different ways, and at different speeds. Music is a journey, and on that journey, we will work and learn together." - Catherine

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