English Music

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MUSIC

The music is a medium in which many people express themselves, with the music we try to convey to others what we feel, but with the help of musical instruments such as guitar, violin, piano, drum, saxophone, and too many more.
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch, rhythm, dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture. The wordderives from Greek.
The creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of music vary according to culture and social context. Music ranges from strictly organized compositions, through improvisational music to aleatoric forms. Music can be divided into genres and subgenres, although the dividing lines and relationships between music genres are often subtle, sometimes open toindividual interpretation, and occasionally controversial. Within "the arts", music may be classified as a performing art, a fine art, and auditory art.
The classification of the music it’s too bigger and has too many genres like:
I. Pop
II. Rock and its derivate like Rock & Roll, Rock pop, Etc, etc.
III. Reggae
IV. Classical music
V. Punk
VI. Metal and its derivate
VII. Electronic
VIII. DanceThere are too many different preferences, but at the end the
music is the medium by which we express our deepest feelings than in many times we can’t say.

The music has been present in the humanity since the beginning of the story, Our ancestors and the old civilizations, They used to use the music to praise their gods and to celebrate special events or any social or religious rite, ever themusic has been present, but it has always been accompanied by the dance, all this in signal of happiness and peace.
The music is an art but it is a working environment and lifestyle also, for example, there are people which play or sing in some places and for too many people it is their work and to other people it is just a hobby. In this world there are too many people who live of the music likethe artists who charge large amounts for playing or writing songs.
We can say that almost all music is about the things that the writers has lived like love, happiness, sadness… the lyrics are related with the social and personal context of the writer.
With 20th century music, there was a vast increase in music listening as the radio gained popularity and phonographs were used to replay anddistribute music. The focus of art music was characterized by exploration of new rhythms, styles, and sounds. Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, and John Cage were all influential composers in 20th century art music. The invention of sound recording and the ability to edit music gave rise to new sub-genre of classical music, including the acoustic.
Rock music is a genre of popular music thatdeveloped in the 1960s from 1950s rock and roll, rockabilly, blues, and country music. The sound of rock often revolves around the electric guitar or acoustic guitar, and it uses a strong back beat laid down by a rhythm section of electric bass guitar, drums, and keyboard instruments such as organ, piano, or, since the 1970s, analog synthesizers and digital ones and computers since the 1990s. Along withthe guitar or keyboards, saxophone and blues-style harmonica are used as soloing instruments. In its "purest form," it "has three chords, a strong, insistent back beat, and a catchy melody." In the late 1960s and early 1970s, it branched out into different subgenres, ranging from blues rock and jazz-rock fusion to heavy metal and punk rock, as well as the more classical influenced genre ofprogressive rock and several types of experimental rock genres.
Music is composed and performed for many purposes, ranging from aesthetic pleasure, religious or ceremonial purposes, or as an entertainment product for the marketplace. Amateur musicians compose and perform music for their own pleasure, and they do not derive their income from music. Professional musicians are employed by a range of...
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