Global Music :: Art

Global MusicThe global perspective of symphony we live in an increasingly smaller global village. With advance in world(a) transportation and communication and with increasingly mobile societies, it seems not only appropriate but alike necessary to develop a global perspective of music. A global perspective of music is a sense of the lifestyles, traditions, values and the music of several nations and cultures throughout the world. An awareness of the mixed bag within our national boundaries that has contributed significantly and beneficially to the ethnical richness of our land. The diversity of musical styles that exist in the United States includes Western European classical music (art music) and a number of popular music styles derived largely from Western European ways of making music. These styles include pop, folk, country, and rock. Other styles, including jazz, blues, and various ethnic music, are the result of a blending of cultures and traditions. All these styles foll ow an important part of music in American society, styles that constitute American music. The ethnic diversity part of the cultural richness of our nation is derived from its ethnic diversity and its large number of ethnic groups. Immigrant groups may have partially assimilated into the mainstream of our society while retaining the songs, dances, instruments, languages (at least accent and inflection), fashion, food, and lifestyles of their native cultures. In many cases, the merging of cultural traditions has formed new styles and modes of behavior. For example, jazz evolved in the early twentieth century. Music is vocal or instrumental sounds having melody, rhythm, or harmony. Also, music is sound that you want to see to it as music, sound that is not organized in some fashion typically cannot be called music. Yet the roar of a waterfall, the sound of rain dropping on a tent or the chirping of birds can sense but as pleasing, and these perhaps as musical, sounds. In fact, the sou nds of birds, water, and whales and other sounds of nature have been tape-recorded and used in organized music. Conversely, all sorts of drum, cymbals, and gongs harsh dissonant harmonics and abstract, totally unsingable melodies have been organized into music. Artistic qualities of Music music maybe folk art, elevated art, or at any place in this continuum. Much music has attributes of both. High art includes the classical music of the Western European cultivated tradition. It also includes the classical music of other cultures.