Musically Speaking..
| Published: 15th May 2007 12:41 |
Classical, Gospel, Opera or Jazz. Funk, Rock, Pop or Country. Ska, Reggae, Hip-Hop, Rap or Garage. Whatever your taste and whatever your age, music can benefit everyone and AboutMyArea.co.uk/DE74 is your one stop musical shop, giving you information on our nearest live music.
Alan of The Sutton Jazz TrioEvents such as the Download Festival at Donington Park, Off the Tracks Festival and Hawkfest 2007 in Isley Walton, the Music in the Parks event taking place at Spital Park, Castle Donington and other venues around the area. You can find a music teacher, information about our local jazz band The Sutton Trio, latest operatic society news, radio stations, or nearest CD outlet. We've also been looking in to the endless advantages to filling your life with music...
Think about your favourite song, singer or band and then think about how it makes you feel. Music can change your mood instantly, sometimes for the better, sometimes not - it forces you to reminisce, bringing back memories. It makes up your personality, your character and can set you apart from the next person.
Music can be motivating and sociable, remember your child's last school production - the sensational production of Schools Will Rock You at the Community College - or the last party you went to. Even in the cyberage, concerts and other music venues are filled with hundreds of people gathering together to listen to their favourite band.
Music can be used as a teaching aid, helping children with learning difficulties or used for its therapeutic and healing qualities to help adults getting over illness or injury. For example, Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy is the UKs leading independent provider of music therapy services. Each year they provide over 30,000 music therapy sessions to children and adults in need across the UK.
Music can be extremely powerful as it breaks down language barriers and unites groups of people who are otherwise complete strangers (think National Anthems). It is considered to predate language (and certainly predates the written word) by certain historians and is found in every known culture, past and present, varying wildly between times and places. A community can define music by giving it a local slant. Accents, dialects, traditions, folklore and history all play their part to make an internationally known song or tune, completely indigenous.
Music affects the senses - see the music at a concert, festival, musical or church choir. Hear the music on the radio, through your ipod or on a CD, touch the music by learning a musical instrument.
Music is inspirational, emotional, controlling and stimulating. It's soothing, exciting, intoxicating and at the heart of every community.
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