what is music

 what is music

que es la musica 

It is easier to feel and reproduce it than to explain or define it. We all understand what music is, but how many can put into words its essential characteristics or what gives it meaning?

The term music has its origin from the Latin "musica" which in turn derives from the Greek term "mousike" and which made reference to the education of the spirit which was placed under the patronage of the muses of the arts.

It can be said that music is the art that consists of giving sounds and silences a certain organization. The result of this order is logical, coherent and pleasing to the ear.

Examples of sentences that include this word: “The music teacher congratulated me on my progress with the guitar”, “I love listening to music: I can't work without it”, “I spend a good part of my income on music, whether it's on tickets to concerts or on records.

There are various principles that allow this organization of sounds and silences to be carried out. Harmony, melody and rhythm, to name three elements, are issues that must be taken into account when creating music.

What a musician does, whether professional, amateur or even improvised, is to try to generate some sensation in the listener. Musical creation stimulates the perception of the human being and can range from entertaining the person to providing some type of information.

Music, science and mystery

During his speech, the journalist José Gordon made clear the times that literature also interfered in the field of physics, such as that time when the writer and Nobel Prize winner for literature Octavio Paz pointed out that the next revolution in physics would come when, in addition to Having variables such as e=energy and m=mass, variants such as r=rhythm and i=intensity were added.

“When we talk about variables such as rhythm and intensity, we are getting closer to music, to what can penetrate the mystery of emotions, of the brain, of the frontier of consciousness and physics that somehow is being played out in the investigation of neurosciences today”, affirmed the popularizer.

On the other hand, Dr. Enrique Cabrero Mendoza defined art and science as two languages ​​that inspire each other, managing to translate concepts such as symmetry into mathematical models or creating the visualization of sound and electromagnetic waves.

Also a professor, Gerardo García Naumis, affirmed that music contains keys, studied from areas such as neurobiology, regarding how information is processed in the brain.

Rivera Calderón stated that the emotion that a melody provokes in the body is pure quantum physics, that is, atoms reacting in a particular way to a sound stimulus. However, the specific reasons why people react in a certain way to a certain sound, chord or melody is still unknown. “Beyond the formulas, the diagrams and the waves, there is an essential mystery because music is at the origin of what we are”, concluded Rivera Calderó