Music

Music comes in many different forms and styles and can loosely be described as the arrangement of sound over time. It involves pitch, time and timbre to create an emotional response in the listener; ‘If music be the food of love, play on’, Shakespear. It is unknown why we associate some sounds as being said and some sounds being happy, because it is hard to rationalize it. The main reason for this is that cognitive conditioning from the films that we watch and the sounds that are around us in our everyday lives make us certain sounds with certain emotions. Academically music is one of the hardest subjects because not only do you get marked on your skills at forming harmonies, melodies and rhythms but you get marked on your creativity and the overall effect of your piece.

Computers have been programmed to create works in the styles of famous composers but it is instantly possible to distinguish between the two because of the emotional content that a human composer can create with the pallet of sound that is available to him. The history and evolvement of music is also a fascinating subject, surprisingly enough some of the most down trodden and poorest people and cultures have been the birth places of the most heart warming, passoinate and touching music. In fact I would go as far as to say poverty and hardship has a good deal to do with it, Gospel, Blues, Soul and Punk where all started by the lower classes.