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Gail Jaite, Owner 440-632-1099
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The Nature and Purpose of Music By Susie Roberts Music is so many things and yet there is nothing like it. A song can be a metaphor for so much, yet what can be a metaphor to song? Music can be striking, coming roaring, surging, flourishing or blooming out of silence. It can be calming, coming softly, floating on echoes. It can bring tears or stir us to action. It can bring light; it can carry darkness. It can inspire great thoughts, just as it was created from great thought. One could fill pages with poetical musings on music. But our culture no longer favors great thoughts. We have moved on to feelings. Remember that pop song you heard on the radio? You were tapping your feet, maybe humming along. It was catchy. But when it was over, you found that you had no idea what it was about, nor did you care. Why is that? Should you have cared? Some friends of mine have a running argument about pop music. The sister is a fan, while the brother is not. The sister, when asked why she likes the music, can only respond with, “It’s catchy and upbeat. It makes me happy!” The brother just rolls his eyes. That is the nature and purpose of pop music: to be catchy and make us happy. But that implies that we’re in need of cheering up. The unspoken purpose of pop music is to distract us – from life, from the real world, from our own insignificance – whatever has us down. But being distracted means that we don’t think. Our culture is constantly distracting itself with vapid little songs,
Facebook and television. Noise, there is always noise, never quiet times for thought. Since we have abandoned thought, our culture is driven by sensations instead. Pop music is only valued because it makes people feel good. Feeling good is not a problem, but we ought to assign value not on a basis of what something does for us, but on a basis of what it is and does. Classical music starts with one motif, like a single bright thread. Then, the composer takes that thread and grows it, weaving it together with harmonies, and developing it more fully it. He adds counter-melodies, or alters the rhythm. When he is finished, a great tapestry of sound is unfurled before the listener. The shimmering threads are something grander than one man, yet created by just that. Classical music makes us think: we follow the theme throughout the whole piece. The compelling power of music comes because it has intrinsic beauty, and therefore, intrinsic worth. It is complex, woven with skill and care. Music deserves our thought, not to serve as a means to quell our dissatisfaction, or distract us from uncomfortable truth. Songs can be used to amuse one’s self, to stop one from thinking; or they can be woven into a grand tapestry of notes – something far greater and grander than ourselves. We ought not to judge music how it makes us feel, but on it’s intrinsic value.
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. ~Leopold Stokowski