Organized sound wakes us in the morning, coming from an alarm clock, a mother’s singing voice, a melodic telephone ringing, a radio or a television set. Organized sound puts us to sleep, at night, in the soft voice of our favorite singer or in the music of our favorite composer.

We cannot sit down and have breakfast or lunch if some kind of sound producing device is not turned on. It seems that silence is incompatible with meals and not only at home. Can you imagine a restaurant or a cafeteria where there is no background music?

We cannot stand silence even when we are moving. That is why Walkman was invented. On the way to work, to school, to the market and to every possible destination, no matter what means of transportation we use, music is with us. If driving, it comes from the car’s radio or tape recorder.

From the examples mentioned so far, it becomes obvious what an essential part of everyday life music is even though its main function, entertainment, has not been mentioned yet. We call it its main function because we cannot think of any kind of entertainment in which music does not play the first role. Its role is so essential that if we removed the music element from whatever kind of entertainment, we could not think of it as entertainment any more. Just imagine music missing from the following forms and places of entertainment: cinema, tv program, radio program, video game, concert hall, theater, bar, cafe, discotheque, nightclub, amusement park, a party, a celebration, anything else you can think of. What would they be like without music? Also imagine what the use of the various audio-visual devices and musical instruments would be if music was missing. I think that most people consider devices like radio and tv sets, record and disc players, tape recorders and VCRs absolutely indispensable and even more necessary than refrigerators and washing machines.

So, what is music and what makes it such an essential part of our life? All the above definitions seem rather confusing and no-one fully explains the music phenomenon. The subject definitely needs more discussion

This pervasiveness of music has caused much contemplation on its nature and also on the reason of its having such an effect upon the individual. Countless definitions of music have been given by philosophers, musicians and scientists . Ancient Greeks even deified it, Apollo being the god of music. They also associated the various aspects of music with other deities like Dionysus, for i

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