Friday, March 27, 2009

Music Another Form of Literacy

Music is a form of literacy within itself. It communicates through melodies, orchestrations, and with lyrics, by which are sometimes sung. You must understand notes, the process of composing a song , and other musical terms and dynamics in order to formally understand music and be literate in it. In a song you may use words to convey the meaning or perhaps the message that you desire to get across however, the dynamics, and orchestrations are the driving forces that communicate the emotion of any particular song. If the song is sad the dynamics and orchestrations used within it may tend to be light sounding, a bit dramatic, most likely slow, and some what climactic. However, if a song is trying to express anger or extreme happiness it may be a little bit more heavy sounding. Like a sad song, an angry song will most definitely be dramatic, and both an extremely happy or angry song will likely be climactic. These songs are usually set at a mid-tempo marking or fast tempo marking, which greatly adds to the feel and emotion of these particular genres of music. Music and all of its dynamics, and the songs that fit with them is a form of universal communication and or literacy.
It has the ability to potentially bring all the world together, and it can possibly provide us with a way to relate to one another.

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