Music - A Basic Inquiry

It has been said that life is like a song. In everythingBefore, there were only two kinds of music - good
that we do in our daily activities, we create someand bad. But as time went by it evolves therefore
trend of harmony and rhythm in what we are doing.creating another type of music - genre. A music
We unconsciously produce rhythm that we ourselvesgenre is a type of categorizing music that identifies
do not even notice it such as walking, breathing, andmusical jingle as belonging to a particular category and
tapping.type of music as different from the other types of
Music is life. It is an art whose medium is to make amusic.
sound. An arrangement of sounds. Everyone canFurthermore, music has its elements. Even the
make music or sound with their body or anythinguncomplicated tune comprises of many components.
that they can tap with and eventually can produceIt is distinguish by the varying heights of pitches, their
music. It is part of every culture on earth. It servesduration - time, scale, and harmony. The pitch of a
as an entertainment to everyone that makes itmusic determines the highness and the lowness of a
enjoyable to some loyal listeners and not to some.tone. The duration or time includes the uniqueness
Like in communication, music is another arrangementsuch as the period of tones and silences and patterns
of sound and that arrangement creates music. It isof duration. The scale is a group of musical notes
like listening to someone speaking conveying his orbrought together to form a sound. And the harmony,
her ideas to another. Music has its own message andin music, it is the use concurrently of all musical
communicates it through making harmonies andcomponents - the pitches and bends, and chords.
rhythm.