Music Evokes Emotion

Music has been around us for centuries. It is known through instruments, composers, computers, multiple different things. They are all related back to the same fact because of the aspect that they sound good to the human ear. Over the years it has evolved through orchestras and well known composers such as Mozart, and or Emmanuel Bach. Nowadays, our community finds deep satisfaction through rap, blues, indie, R&B, and or the occasional pop artists. If music is simply noise made by vocal chords and or an instrument due to movement and or wind, why is it any different than a baby’s scream or the clanging of dishes? Why is there connection to such noises? There is a connection because it gives us an emotional attachment and it truly shows a person’s feelings and connections with their well being.

High school band is a class choice when beginning school, a choice not often chosen. It’s an experience that connects someone to oneself mentally, unlike physical education, which connects you physically. Whether we choose to learn to create said these kinds of sounds, we evidently chose to be bias towards a certain genre of music. High school band creates connections by allowing someone to choose an instrument they believe themselves will love, and give them amazing opportunities to travel and play with others of same interest.

Music is loved by the world in multiple different ways. Whether you create, and or listen to it, is completely up to you. A person’s preference is solely their own opinion and choice and it can deeply describe who they are as a person and their personality. When we feel down or sad, we are more known to listen to similar songs of those feelings. When we are happy, we will listen to music that duplicates those feelings as well. Music has the ability to be a coping mechanism, to aid us in understanding, connecting, and expression how we are feeling.

Music is closer to us than we care to admit. Not only does someone emotionally connect with a song, it gives them the capability to connect to other groups of people with the same interests. Music comes in multiple different formats, such as jazz, contemporary, classical, pop, etc., and we are the ones that will carry music further and create more genres. “The music is not in the notes, but in the silence in between,” (Mozart). Music is present when we drive through town, when we need background sound for studying, and or in a musical. It is an enormous part of our lives, yet we fail to notice it’s full extent in our lives.

If everyone learned how to make music and play together, learnt that we were all different instruments in our own ways, how many conflicts would stop and could we prevent more? With a concatenated bond with a certain song, music can evolve into a relaxing mechanism that has the power to calm the mind and aid us to connect with others.

Music can be viewed as a way to bring back memories, and cure some forms of mental illnesses. Amnesia is a memory loss mental illness, and there have been signs in hospitals where a song had the ability to connect a person with amnesia with a forgotten event that occurred in their past. Music gives severe suicidal and depressive patients a sound to believe in and think about. Music works wonders in the mind and soul, especially in hospital areas.

Music is a feeling that some follow, and a feeling that evokes our own. It is strong, and holds gifts for those who know how to create it. If there was no music in the world, there would be more silence, less noise, and a decrease in musical connections.