Music Analysis

            Music Analysis

A single music can have lots of meaning for each one of us. It may not produce common understanding or meaning for all of us. If someone analyzes music and tells to audience this means that, it may not give sense for all of them. As Copland mentions “nothing really tells him what he should be hearing, no treatise or chart or guide can ever sufficiently pull together the various strands of a complex piece of music-only the inrushing floodlight of one’s own imagination can do that” (Anna Tomasino. ‘’Music and Culture’’ 2005: p.6). If someone surveys what the meaning of a single music among audiences he will come up with different ideas and concepts. I am not arguing here that music doesn’t have to undergo analysis but the analysis has to be done by each listener. Of course for the best product of music, it has to pass many evaluations by professionals. When I am questioning myself, why do I like that music? I say “because there I have some place in it, those words in some way speak to me”. Those words are telling me my memory, my experience, what is in me.  When we listen to different music we are taken away to the situation where we heard of it, what happened, all in all it reminded us the surrounding state.

I don’t have any knowledge on music scale, its tone, symmetry or pitch; so I will not be confused what is best and what is worst in it but I am enjoying it. It travels me miles away to where I was. It gives me exclusive meaning. When Copland tells his profession as musician he said “I have vigorously hissed, at other times as vigorously applauded; in both circumstances I remain comparatively unmoved.  Why should that be?..... but once out of my hands the work takes no personal credit”( Anna Tomasino. ‘’Music and Culture’’ 2005: p.7). This is like beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Each individual mind contemplates its own meaning and worth.  

Most of the time I hear music but; sometimes I listen to it. When I am listening, the value it worth amplifies. Each lyric speaks and it really helps me to know it well. The beauty of music is it has everyday meaning for one who is attended to it.  When I am indulged in music it relaxes me, it exceeds my contentment, and it talks me with every emotion I am just feeling. When Etheridge shares her experience hearing the Beatles she said “I thought that I had heard the voice of God. It was the most incredible thing I’d ever heard, and it moved me in a way I had never before experienced” (Anna Tomasino. ‘’Music and Culture’’ 2005: p.11).

Therefore I am not interested if someone is analyzing my music and telling me its connotations. The wording, the tone, the instrument even the mess-up has its own meaning for me. I analyze my music by not hearing, I do listening. When I listen to it, it has a special worth to me. It touches my sprite, my soul. It exceedingly feels me with peace. It attends to my memory.  

Bibliography

Anna Tomasino. ‘’Music and Culture’’ 2005. Pearson Education Inc.