What is music talking about?

What is music talking about?

Music is part of our life. Without it, our life would be boring and monotonous. She is always with us, even if we do not feel it. Why is this happening? The thing is that music is like a closed magic box. To learn to listen to music, especially classical, you need to pick up the magic key to the box.

Music can cheer up when we are sad; she can share with a person joy and sadness, make him kinder and better. Music can change the outlook of a person, his attitude to life. It is able to make a person think about the meaning of life, review all values ​​and set the right priorities. What does music tell us?

Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg said that words need music, but music does not need anything. Music, like a magic fairy, can without words convey mood, character, experiences, portray pictures of nature.

Music keeps riddles in itself, and man tries to solve them. But the fact is that everyone perceives music in his own way. Someone listening to a piece of music sees itself in the forest, inhales its scent and enjoys its charm. The other is the heady sound of the surf. Not everyone will present the lunar disc in the beautiful night sky while Claude Debussy listens to Moonlight, as the composer intended.

Waltz "Tales of the Vienna Woods" by Johann Strauss has nothing to do with the forest. The composer could have given this waltz any other name, but no matter how it was called - it’s just a beautiful waltz written by a brilliant composer. There are no stories here, all music is based on the description of some pictures. Listening to this waltz we are trying to grasp the idea of ​​this picture. Someone represents a bewitching night in the forest, someone sees the sunrise.

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky created a talented work "Pictures at an Exhibition." The composer wrote these piano pieces in memory of his friend, artist Victor Hartmann. He tried to describe the pictures that he saw in the museum.

The picture about chickens “Ballet of the Unstressed Chicks”, Mussorgsky expressed with squeaky notes, showing the cry of little fluffy lumps. In the picture of children playing on the lawn, the composer imitated the children's voices with music, and he did it. The big chords in the following picture "The Bogatyr Gate" easily draws heavy columns to the listener's imagination that support the gate.

But isn't it why we so clearly see what the composer wanted to say with music, what we know what she is talking about? We think of the gates, and we could also think of a wide river, if the play were called that way. The picture only complements the music itself, we do not need to represent the river, forest, wind or the sea.

The main property of classical music is that it conveys the feelings of a person. It can be pain, despair, joy, fear, excitement, love, etc. Classical music can make the listener experience such strong feelings as the composer himself experienced while writing the work. Music means exactly the feeling that we experience while listening.

But feelings are diverse, not each of them we can pick up names. There is joy, sadness, but there are so deep feelings that we cannot convey in words. Then music comes to the rescue, it works wonders and transmits them.

So what is music talking about? She talks about the feelings of man. While listening to a piece of music, a person has strong feelings, one music causes him anxiety, the other, on the contrary, a feeling of peace and tranquility. Expressing feelings, music causes reciprocal feelings in a person. The meaning of music ─ in the music itself.