Music Streams

Music is sound that is received by the individual and vary based on history, location, culture and tastes of a person. True definition of music is also diverse:
  • Beep / impression of something that was captured by the listener senses
  • A work of art with all our constituents and supporters.
  • Any sound produced intentionally by a person or group and served as music
Some people think music is not tangible at all. Music by Aristotle has the ability to reconcile a troubled heart, has a recreational therapy and foster patriotism.

Music streams
Here is a list of flow / main genres of music. Each genre is divided into several sub-genres. Categorizing music like this, although it is sometimes a subjective thing, but it is one of the sciences are studied and determined by experts of world music.
In recent decades, the music world suffered a lot of progress. Many types of new music that was born and developed. Trip Hop music example which is a blend of beat-beat electronic pop music that mild and pleasant. Examples of musicians that carries this kind of music is Frou Frou, Sneaker Pimps and Lamb. There is also a hip-hop rock that was carried by Linkin Park. Not to mention rock and neo-wave dance rock that is now being ins. many new music groups that fly with this kind of music, including Franz Ferdinand, Bloc Party, The Killers, The Bravery and many more.
Even now there are many bands that carry the local language song with the rhythm of rock music, jazz and blues. Musical groups that brought this new stream in Indonesia have been pretty much one of them is carrying the Funk de Java Java-language songs in rock music.

Original Music From Indonesia

The music of Indonesia demonstrates its cultural diversity, the local musical creativity, as well as subsequent foreign musical influences that shaped contemporary music scenes of Indonesia. Nearly thousands of Indonesian islands having its own cultural and artistic history and character. This results in hundreds of different forms of music, which often accompanies dance and theater. The musics of Java, Sumatra, Bali, Flores and other islands have been documented and recorded, and research by Indonesian and international scholars is ongoing. The music in Indonesia predates historical records, various Native Indonesian tribes often incorporate chants and songs accompanied with musics instruments in their rituals. Today the contemporary music of Indonesia is popular in the region, including neighboring countries; Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei.

Musical Instruments
The musical identity of Indonesia as we know it today began as the Bronze Age culture migrated to the Indonesian archipelago in the 2nd-3rd century BC. Traditional musics of Indonesian tribes often uses percussion instruments, especially gendang (drums) and gongs. Some of them developed elaborate and distinctive musical instruments, such as sasando string instrument of Rote island, angklung of Sundanese people, and the complex and sophisticated gamelan orchestra of Java and Bali.

The power And Effect Music

Music is a sound basis, has a tone, beat and rhythm. Music can be an entertainer sat in sadness, the music can motivate the spirit in times of struggle, the music can be an expression of love to her lover, the music can relax their mind in the face of fatigue life. Similarly, a small portion of the benefits and functions of music. Can you imagine if this world without music, ironic is not it? Like a man without a woman, a flower without the butterfly, vegetables without salt, so surely the world will be empty.

Music As a healer
Medical side, found that music can also be used to help patients forget for a moment who are suffering illness, which is very helpful in the treatment process being carried out by a doctor. While classical music can also help children in infancy, especially with the workings of the brain left in charge raises the intelligence and cleverness. Beethoven, the music world would know who he is. A sniman music's most legendary and genius of his time. At the age of 20 years, Bethoven impaired hearing loss. But he did not feel it was a reason for her birth size works. Precisely at the time of his hearing impaired, he even produced magnificent works of the world who were later remembered as his greatest. Even many of his contemporaries music artists can not play music at the time it works. Here we can see how so much influence than the music. 

Music Is Requirements 
Almost every day we hear music and, on television, on radio, in supermarkets, wherever we are we can not escape from the name of music. Music as if already a staple to our ears. Just maybe we seldom seriously to hear and watch, while we need to sort out which ones are useful and which ones do not. Penah music will not fade by age, while the music remains timeless adjust era of progress, development and human needs will continue to accompany the music and will never miss. Music gives a good effect when we position them on a good place, and music can give a bad influence when we are positioning it in the wrong place. 

Music As Therapy

You have a problem that burdens the mind? Or, even have felt often forget about something? If yes, frequently listen to music or your favorite songs. Because, according to various studies, music can soothe and even improve one's memory. Therefore, music can be an effective means of therapy for people with various complaints. Moreover, if the music played is a gentle tone and liked the listener, the music can create an atmosphere to relax or even the spirit. One steeped in music research for this therapy is an Institute for Music and Neurological Function in America. They found that the type of music therapy is very beneficial for people with Alzheimer's to remain calm and help improve their memory. Of course, for those who easily forget, these findings into a good news because the music we hear everyday in fact many manfaatnya.Hal is also strengthened by the use of music to therapy performed in a hospital in Chicago. Music therapy is applied there is able to calm parents who are anxious or upset caused by their children's delinquency. Because the benefits of this massive, Cheryl DiLeo, a professor of music therapy University of Philadelphia, the U.S. said the music will help to change the physical, psychological, social, and cognitive patients. Therefore, Cheryl highly recommend music as a therapeutic tool because it is easy to do and loved by many people. So, if you feel uncomfortable and too much of thought, why not play music for a moment? Hopefully this will calm the simple way and makes us more productive in their work.

Classical music


Classical music is a broad term that usually refers to music produced in, or rooted in the tradition of Western art, Christian music, and orchestral music, covering the period from about the 9th century to the 21st century. European classical music is distinguished from non-European forms of music and popular music largely by musical notation system, which has been used since around the 16th century. Western music notation used by composers to give instructions to the carrier music on the pitch, speed, metrum, individual rhythms and exact nature of a piece of music. This limits the existence of practices such as improvisation and ad libitum ornamentation is often heard on non-European music (compare Indian classical music and Japanese traditional music) and popular music.

Benefits of Music Therapy

Left-right brain balance
In everyday life there are people who show lack of balance the right and left brain functions. There is a left brain function is more prominent. For example, a mathematician who does not like music. Or the surgeon who sick of seeing his wife read a novel or buy art objects. On the other hand there are individuals who are more prominent right brain capabilities. For example, someone who prefers to daydream, create a novel or write a song while he would feel dizzy when confronted with mathematical figures or other matters relating to academic ability. After the baby is born, it is suggested that mothers continue to educate their children to love music. It would be great if a child 5 years old are taught to play musical instruments. Research shows that children who are good at playing musical instruments have the power of creativity and skill.

Reggae Music

Reggae is a music rhythm that developed in Jamaica. Reggae may be used in a wide sense to refer to the bulk of Jamaican music, including ska, rocksteady, dub, dancehall, and ragga. Perhaps the term is also located in discriminating style so closely derived from the late 1960s. Reggae standing under rhythm style characterized by mouth blow arrears soldiers, known as the "skank", played by rhythm guitar, and bass drum beater over three blows each measure, known as "all out". Characteristics, is hitting the slow introduction of reggae, ska and rocksteady.

Reggae in Indonesia
Some famous names in the world of Reggae music and sub​​-manifold Indonesia, among others, Tony Q Rastafara, Ras Mohammed, Steven & Coconut Treez, Joni Agung (Bali), New Rastafara (Yogyakarta), and Mbah Surip (Mojokerto). There was also the Head Coconut reggae group from Medan. This reggae band including the first band to use the name "Coconut Head" throughout the world. Reggae music around 1986 began voiced in Indonesia, the band Black Company is a band with a genre of reggae, a few years later came the Asian Roots which is a derivative of the band before, then there is the Asian Force and Abresso, Jamming.