Saturday, April 24, 2010

“Music is Important to People”

People listen to music for different reasons and at different times. Why is music important to many people? Use specific reasons and examples to support your choice.
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Music plays an important role in our everyday life. We listen to music and feel relaxed. There are many sources from where we can listen to music for example radio, television, jukebox, gramophone, and many alike. Similarly music can be listened by attending musical concerts or ball rooms and dance clubs also. Music keeps us cool and in harmony.

Music can be broadly classified as classical and light. Furthermore music can be vocal and instrumental. Light music can be further categorized into rock-n-roll, foxtrot, and disco, rumba-samba, pop and jazz.

Music is a means of communication too. On national holidays, Presidential Guard of Honor is given by on the wonderful band tunes by the army soldiers to the president and other ministers of the nation. Secondly during weddings, music is played till the end of ceremony. Thirdly all television channels start playing a sad tune on any unfortunate happening of a dignitary passing away, that is a communication of the sad happening. In a way music is a vitally important element of human life.

Music is a highly creative hobby to develop. If one learns good music he or she can become a good singer, instrument player, music director or a musician. Those who are professional musicians earn very handsome money and prestige too. For example in western music, Elvis Priesley and Pat Boone are the renowned singers. Similarly Mohd-Rafi, Mukesh, Kishore, Ms. Lata are renowned in Hindi light music world.

In nutshell, for every occasion in the life different types of music is available as elaborated above and those must be played, listened, and enjoyed.

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