Music Features

Music is a series of sounds that can be properly arranged, it is based on sounds and silences and uses the vibrations of the air.

This is a type of art that affects almost exclusively the human being, but in a certain sense it is estimated that it can affect the mood of some animals.

Music has existed since ancient times and it is estimated that it has evolved with man, but the concept of music is Greek, and it comes from musikë "art of muses".

Main characteristics of music:

1. Melody

The melody or melody nothing else is a Greek concept that means to sing, in the language or musical use, the melody is the variation of sounds produced by an instrument and would be interpreted as making the instrument. In this way it would be applied to the work or decision of the composer when using the high and low tones of each instrument.

2. Harmony

Harmony represents a certain agreement or concordance in the sounds used, it is the way to adjust to the intention of the composer and the idea that you want to express. It is convenient to explain that the concept of harmony is not only used in music, as it is also used in aesthetics and even in some disciplines such as yoga.

3. Rhythm

The rhythm is applied in different aspects, such as dance or in some mechanical movements "clock rhythm" or "rhythm when dancing", but in this aspect the rhythm is directed to the tones and their repetitions, this can also be expressed as a measure, where the measures of 2 by 2, 2 by four, three by two, etc. are distinguished, and its expression is similar to fractional numbers 2/4 2/2 4/4 etc.

4. Tone

The concept of tone can be applied to both colors and music, excluding colors for obvious reasons, we will say that tone in music it is the ability to order sounds according to their frequencies, and it is used to achieve frequencies or combinations; when applied to singing, the so-called clefs can be used, “Do” “La” “Sol” etc.

5. Sound

Sounds are all the vibrations that occur in the environment, physically they are propagated by waves. In this aspect, the sounds of the music that are what you want to transmit stand out, and these sounds are found in different frequencies that slide in the air reaching the ear, which is the one that interprets these vibrations through the snail, the hammer and the anvil, which pass this information to the brain so that the decode.

6. Culture

Music, whether by voice or by instruments, has constantly reflected the idiosyncrasies of the population and the place in which it is produced, it is thus that regardless of the place, music produces archetypes that distinguish those populations.

7. Expression

This is the ideal tool for artists to express their feelings and thoughts, since the ideas are directed to the intention of the composer.