What's the use of music for us?

Music is an artistic form that expresses people's thoughts and feelings and social real life with auditory images composed of organized voices. It is also one of the most touching art forms. When the melody rings, people are often irresistibly immediately exposed to the music atmosphere, which makes people forget their troubles and purify their hearts. The creation, expression, meaning and even definition of music vary according to different cultural and social backgrounds.

The value of music:

The formal value of music is the listener's utility evaluation of melody, rhythm, writing skills, playing skills and orchestration skills. For example, Bel Canto songs with the same lyrics are transformed into popular singing methods, and are influenced by the diversified personality of popular music, which will not only highlight the value of "formal value", but also interpret the content value of works different from the author's personal interpretation.

Extended data:

The basic elements of music:

1. Melody: Melody is also called melody. The ups and downs of music are organized horizontally and orderly according to a certain rhythm to form a tune. Tune is the most important means of expression of music, and it is the essence and decisive factor of music. The direction of melody is endless. The common progressive ways of melody are homophonic repetition, progressive and jumping.

2. Rhythm: The rhythm of music refers to the speed and intensity of sound in music movement. The rhythm of music is often compared to the skeleton of music. Beat is the periodic and regular repetition of repetitive beats and weak beats in music. Traditional music in China calls the beat "board eye", and "board" is equivalent to strong beat; "Eye" is equivalent to the second strong beat (middle eye) or weak beat.

3. Harmony: Harmony includes "chord" and "harmonic progression". Chords are usually sound combinations formed by three or more notes overlapping vertically (simultaneously) according to certain rules. The transverse organization of chords is harmonic progression. Harmony has obvious functions of strong, light, thick and thin colors; It also has the functions of forming clauses, dividing paragraphs and ending music.

4. Intensity: the intensity of the midrange in music.

5. Speed: the speed of music.

6. Mode: The tones used in music are connected according to a certain relationship, and these tones form a system centered on one tone (tonic), which is called mode. Such as China's major mode, minor mode and pentatonic mode. The tones in the mode are arranged from the tonic to the highest tone to form a scale.

7. Form: the horizontal organizational structure of music.

8. Texture: the combination form of each voice in a multi-voice music work. (including vertical combination and horizontal combination).

9. timbre: timbre can be divided into vocal timbre and instrumental timbre. In music, sometimes only a single timbre is used, and sometimes a mixed timbre is used.