Benefits of Music in Life

Music is a symphony of life, into a contemporary art part of everyday human life on earth. Without music the world quiet, empty and monotonous because music can break the ice, the heart relaxes and stimulates the human mind as the actor's life story. Music does not just provide entertainment effect, but was able to give meaning to excite and empower the spirit and meaning of life to live. Listening to music, appreciate and enjoy a fun activity and can make us comfortable. These effects are medically and psychologically positive repercussions on the physical and psychical condition of man, including me and us.

There are several benefits associated with our daily music and its use as therapy :

First, the music is useful for maintaining healthy and our immune because the music turned out to be therapeutic and healing. According to Campbell, the music is able to produce a stimulant that is rhythmic. Stimulation is then captured by our hearing and processed in in body's nervous system and glands of the brain reorganize into a rhythm sound interpretation of the internal audience. These internal rhythms affect human metabolism so that the process is going better. Better metabolism will result in the body can build a better immune system. With a better immune system, the body becomes more resilient against possible infections.

Second, music can improve intelligence by rhythmic stimulation could improve the functioning of our brains work. The resulting internal rhythm of music makes the brain nerves work, a sense of comfort and calm are stimulated to music makes the work function of the brain working optimally. When this is often done, the work function of our brains will be more excellent, so the ability to think we are more clear and sharp, and can prevent dementia (Alzheimer's). We need to know that the right side of the brain associated with intelligence and artistic and creative development, language, music, imagination, color, self-knowledge, socialization and personality development. Therefore, the stimulation of rhythmic music that is played also can improve language skills, enhance creativity, and improve our concentration and memory.

Third, music can cause psychological reactions that can alter mood and emotional condition, so that music is useful as a relaxation that can eliminate stress, overcome anxiety, improve mood and raise spiritual awareness. As a form of art, music not only creates a pleasant harmony of tone, but also gives a beautiful impression that can inspire and lead people on a deep awareness and management, through empty hallways in hopes of powerlessness. Awareness of the nature of humanity that can not be separated from the problem, awareness of the existence of the power of the Most Perfect, which raised the resignation to submit to Him. Surrender is what can reduce or even eliminate the burden of thinking and feeling pressure. Stimulation produced rhythmic music can make the mind relax, and creates positive feelings, calm, comfortable and optimistic and even happy.

Fourth, music is useful as a tool and medium of communication between people because the music is a universal language that can integrate diversity, peace and human solidarity. History often records the role and benefits of music as a means of interaction and communication media that can be understandable to everyone, even if we do not understand the language of each nation. In real life any day-to-day, music is often a means of communication with those we love, representing the feelings of the heart, an expression of longing and even anger.

In connection with the benefits of music, the kinds of music also greatly affect the perceived benefits everyone, especially for those who undergo music therapy.

Types Of Musical Instruments

This instrument is an instrument that created or modified for the purpose of producing music. In principle, anything that produces sound, and in certain ways can be arranged by the musicians, can be called as a musical instrument. However, the term is generally reserved for equipment specifically intended for music. Field study of a musical instrument called organologi.

Musical instrument based on the sound source

• Idiofon, is a musical instrument sound sources originating from basic ingredients. Example: kolintang, drums, bongo, kabasa, angklung
• Aerofon, is a musical instrument sound source from the blast of air in the cavity. Example: flute, trumpet, harmonica, trombone.
• Kordofon, is a musical instrument sound source comes from the strings. Example: bass, guitar, violin, guitar, sitar, piano, harp
• Membranofon, is a musical instrument sound source from the membrane or membranes. For example: drums, drum, drums, tam-tam, tambourine
• Elektrofon, is a musical instrument sound source generated by the electric power (electronics). Example: keyboards, electric guitar, electric bass

Musical instrument based on the way to play

• Wind instruments produce sound when a column of air in it vibrated. Low high-frequency tone is determined by the resulting wave associated with air column length and shape instruments, while the timbre is affected by basic materials, construction tools and how to produce it. Examples of this instrument is the trumpet and flute.
• Percussion instruments produce sound when struck or beaten. Percussion instruments are divided into two namely pitched and not suggestive. The shape and material parts of the instrument and forms the cavity resonance, if any, will determine the sound produced by instruments. Examples are kolintang (pitched), drums (no tone), and bongo (no tone).
• Stringed instruments produce sound when the strings are vibrated through picked. Low high tone is produced from its short length of string.
• Stringed instrument produces sounds when the strings swiped. As with stringed musical instrument, high and low tones of long and short hanging strings.

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.