Most people love music unconsciously, knowing nothing about the principles of its construction, nor about the laws of perception, nor about the degree of its impact on the subconscious, as we have known and love our native language since childhood, not yet aware of either syntax or spelling.
Why we love music
If you look at it, it seems that it is not connected either with reality or with its manifestations. It does not look like the visible images of ballet or cinema, nor the tactile tangible beauty of painting or sculpture. Music is something else. Especially mysterious is the nature of its impact not only on humans, but also on everything living.
Someone will call this nature divine. But no one can deny the transcendental, bewitching, inexplicable ability of a simple, seemingly set of sounds, to transfer a person to another reality, to cheer up, make cry or laugh and even help to endure pain. Music is a mood.
Moreover, the sounds cause an aesthetic reaction. Moreover, it is not necessary to have a special education, and not everyone has musical awareness. There is a subconscious craving for sounding melodies. Great minds of different eras in their own way imagined the meaning of the word "music". These are quotes that have survived to this day: "Music is the universal language of mankind" (G. Longfellow).
It is interesting to transform what a person considered a tool to control nature and even the unearthly world into what we call music; into what was already aesthetics, shaped society as a whole and man in particular, changed the worldview and received an impetus for development itself.
Ancient people were convinced that spirits dwell in musical instruments, and music is a tremendous inexplicable force. It is curious that both of these ideas are simultaneously similar and opposite.
The role of music in education
The role of musical creativity is invaluable as a kind of spiritual practice that helps the release of creative forces. In pedagogy, it contributes to the development of the imagination and versatility of the personality, literally constructs the brain, enhances its activity. A note, music is a guide in the spiritual world of mankind. Children who are fond of music are ahead of their peers in terms of development: they quickly master the score and reading, have a developed sense of rhythm, and express their thoughts more clearly. Both hemispheres of the brain are actively working for them, and the motor skills of speech and hands are developed.
Despite all independence from external causes and influences, we find ourselves introduced into a certain sound space that has a certain structure and color. Therefore, our imagination is so active. Music is life in unreality, a step towards the development of the listener's perception. For all the specificity of the musical material, there is always the possibility of a colossal self-expression of the composer.
The theory of music carries a huge number of components: from defining the secrets of harmonious sounding to musical notation itself, from exploring musical forms to determining the intricacies of psychological impact. But is knowledge of musical theory always a factor stimulating creativity? There is an opinion that this is not so.
Russian music - a combination of traditions and styles
It is impossible to overestimate the role of Russian culture and its colossal impact on global culture, with all its greatness and diversity. According to the systems of Stanislavsky and Chekhov, students of all theatrical universities of the world study, Russian artists were the founders of entire directions, and achievements in the field of ballet are a common pride.
But Russian music and the composer school even stand out among the grandiose achievements, because it is in this form of creativity, as nowhere else, the national identity of the people is presented in a special way, which makes it unique and always recognizable.
Undying Classics
Among the variety of directions and styles, classical music stands apart. Modern trends in music are better known than “classics of style”, and this is understandable. The avant-garde musical material, as it seems to contemporary critics, is a kind of protrusion of technical devices, an exaggeration of the rational beginning, which damages its content and quality.
The place of music in the modern world
At present, the musical horizon seems almost endless, captures the past of culture, tries to attract even artificial, exotic, sometimes primitive music. Music is an essential factor in the influence and formation of society. Processing of various musical techniques is underway, and it becomes clear that in the future we can expect the discovery of new bright musical ideas.
Now, in connection with the rapid advancement of scientific and technological progress, people have got, one might say, unlimited opportunities in seconds to find and listen to their favorite compositions. There are common convenient formats, and recording media, and the Internet provides access to the most popular works.
And, although sophisticated connoisseurs have been grumbling for more than a century that everything in the world has crushed, the cultural and technical level of performing skills is rapidly falling, it seems that we will still witness the emergence of genuine masterpieces in many musical directions.