Meditation with Music

Music is an art form whose medium is sound. Common elements of music are Pitch, which governs melody and harmony, Rhythm, which looks after tempo, meter, and articulation, dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture. The creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of music vary according to culture and social context. To many people in many cultures music is an important part of their way of life.India has one of the oldest musical traditions in the world—references to Indian classical music can be found in the ancient scriptures of the Hindu tradition, the Vedas. The earliest and largest collection of prehistoric musical instruments was found in China and dates back to between 7000 and 6600 BC.
                        Music was an important part of cultural and social life in Ancient Greece: mixed-gender choruses performed for entertainment, celebration and spiritual ceremonies; musicians and singers had a prominent role in ancient Greek theater. Performance is the physical expression of music. Often, a musical work is performed once its structure and instrumentation are satisfactory to its creators; however, as it gets performed, it can evolve and change. A performance can either be rehearsed or improvised. Improvisation is a musical idea created without premeditation, while rehearsal is vigorous repetition of an idea until it has achieved cohesion. Musicians will sometimes add improvisation to a well-rehearsed idea to create a unique performance.

Unity in Diversity

Musicians are either termed as amateurs and professionals by the way they make music. There are often many links between them. Amateur musicians take lessons from professional musicians. In the community, advanced level of amateur musicians perform with professional musicians in a variety of orchestras. In some cases, amateur musicians attain a professional level of competence and they are able to perform in professional performance settings. A distinction is often made between music performed for the benefit of a live audience and music that is performed for the purpose of being recorded and distributed through the music retail system or the broadcasting system. However, there are also many cases where a live performance in front of an audience is recorded and distributed or broad-casted.
Composition is often classed as the creation and recording of music via a medium by which others can interpret it. Notation is the written expression of music notes and rhythms on paper using symbols. When music is written down, the pitches and rhythm of the music is notated, along with instructions on how to perform the music. The study of how to read notation involves music theory, harmony, the study of performance practice, and in some cases an understanding of historical performance methods. Musical improvisation is the creation of spontaneous music. Improvisation is often considered as an act of instantaneous composition by performers, where compositional techniques are employed with or without preparation. Improvisation is a major part of some types of music, such as blues, jazz, and jazz fusion, in which instrumental performers improvise solos and melody lines. When composers introduce styles of music which break with convention, there can be a strong resistance from academic music experts and popular culture.

The Legend Killer

MUSIC is everywhere. Only a person who knows about his child will KNOW about his child, likewise only the person who knows about the instrument can play it skillfully. We all listen to music but forget those ting fingers which alter the tune. Here is one such person who brought the whole world under one roof in his national anthem. I think you must have guessed it its A.R.RAHMAN. He turned tides towards India by his enthralling music. If you look at his works you can see that each masterpiece is unique and remained as imprints in people's hearts. He proved music can never be destroyed and each of his works still remains the best. He gives music the energy and the beats altogether give the heart the pump of a life time.
One of the first Oscar nominees representing India, music won him great glory for the movie "SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE". His passion for music, simplicity, hard work and dedication got him the prize. Music is more than what we think it is, it gives him peace, glory and most of all a beautiful sound that keeps echoing even as time passes by. He says its music that binds the different culture, people, and races under one home. Thousands of fans all over the worlds, even foreigners look upon him for what he is and not to forget the weapon he uses. He'll always remain as one of the most influential and elegant personality who conquered millions of hearts with his music.

Innovative Instruments

In early periods man had a lot of curious questions regarding music as of how? Where? When? This fundamental question let to the development of many historic things. One of them was MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. Man never communicated with words, so he used sounds to alert, call, run when danger, signal, etc. so when finally he thought how music is produced he came up with the basic flute made of bones, which later formed as a powerful instrument. So there dawned the definition of music “SOMETHING WHICH PRODUCES SOUND CAN SERVE AS A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT”. Next came the Egyptians, Romans, and Arabians who formed the base for the development there is today. As the world started developing, music also developed in many parts of the world in different forms. The Americans took a slow pace in getting acquainted to the music. While other parts of north, south shared the musical instruments. Now, the present instruments were developed by individual countries, which made musicians, see music in a different angle. With the present technology forming a fusion, jazz, western any particular sound is a piece of cake.
Some of the popular instruments are violin, flute, piano, guitar, keyboard, and drums etc. mind blowing sounds are fused in various forms, and the western culture is now dawned here as heavy metal. Now its all electrified from guitar to drums.Its current that passes through the body of youngsters. Yet each has their taste of music. Some of the finest tunes and sounds are produced by saxophone, which are a very good instrument and also a hard instrument to play. Cause they say each instrument is not alike, likewise each person is unique with each instrument.

"So there has to be passion and also talent to produce the most beautiful sound that can seduce a human to forget his thoughts and create a pleasant feeling within".

Motherly Music

Music is nature's pleasant sound which makes us feel heavenly, even the earth while revolving around the sun produces some sound. We can say that each and every thing in the world can produce some sort of music. It is a universal precious feel which can be understood by all language people and even a new born baby can feel the pleasing rhythm. Music therapy is one of the fast developing technique in medicine field many of the researches says that good music has the ability to relieve stress of the patients to a great extent. Different kinds of music like classical, western can produce different feelings in us even the people who meditate used to play music when they chant mantras and while sitting in postures because the pleasant rhythm which is being played mildly behind them will not make them feel difficult about their postures.
It is the best and simple source for us to sit back and relax, melodious kind of music can change our depression from stressed states. So its obvious that one cant lead a peaceful and enjoyable life without music.

Music for Moods

Music deals with the nature and mechanics of one's feelings. It often involves identifying patterns that govern composers' techniques. In a more detailed sense, music theory also filters and analyzes the elements of music—rhythm, harmony and play, melody, structure, and texture. People who study these properties are known as music theorists.Music is in the sense which makes every kind of living thing happy and pass out the feel in a realistic way. It also makes our mind enthusiastic, freeze and very passionate. The music resembles like a medicine of a mother's love and it activates our brain cells, finally it takes us to reach our destination, goal or work in a pleasant manner.
It also plays a vital role in different music players mind by exciting their feelings and thoughts towards the world. The definition of composition is broad enough to include spontaneously improvised works like those of free jazz performers and African drummers .The pleasant form of music is generally composed by making use of the instruments like flute, guitar, violin, piano etc. The composition of a piece is singling out its elements. The music doesn't need to sound better but it must make some sense of feel and emotion.