music

In the lecture I learned so many basic elements of music. Like most people I have always enjoyed listening to music, and I am not completely tone deaf or ignorant about music. In comparison to how much there is to know about music I would have just read the cover. During the lecture I began to appreciate music in a light I had never appreciated before. For starts it helped that someone was guiding me through the analysis, because I am not educated enough on the matter to extensively explore the dynamics and elements of a song. Secondly I appreciated the composers braver to use their knowledge to make music.
I had never realized that musicians could write music simply because they like to combine the notes. Music has always seemed like “an expression of the soul” and not a work. It helped to have the professor explaining to me the various dynamics of a song, playing the music so I felt I could identify the dynamics, and comparing the different composers and which dynamics they preferred. Learning how the pieces were composed helped me to understand why the composer did what they did.
I thought that all of the composers we discussed in the lecture were courageous. When their symphonies came out they really were putting themselves out for ridicule. It is difficult for me to imagine, but the closet thing I can come up with is when you have to read a poem you wrote in front of the class. The audience is smaller, much, much smaller, but the courage it takes to share your own work always takes a little courage. I was very impressed with all of the composures courage to try new ideas, accept ridicule, and express themselves in their work.