Blog About Music&Musical Instruments
Music has long been recognized as an important means of shaping a person’s personal qualities and spiritual world. Musical development has no substitute for its impact on general development: the emotional sphere is formed, thinking is improved, and the child becomes sensitive to the beauty in art and in life.
“Music is a necessary mental attribute of human existence.”
Aristotle wrote
Types of musical instruments
Everyone loves music, it gives wonderful moments, soothes, pleases, and gives a sense of life. Different musical instruments have different features and differ in their structure, manufacturing material, sound, and playing technique. Repeated attempts have been made to create a classification of them. We decided to make a small guide, where we have placed types of musical instruments with pictures and names, so that every beginner can easily understand the diversity of the musical world.
Music is a phenomenal phenomenon. Its relationship with man is amazing. Melodious sounds work miracles – the human soul awakens, transforms, changes condition and mood. Music enhances any joy, soothes any sadness, exorcises any illness, soothes any pain. Music rules over our emotions. And emotions, it turns out, even conquer physical pain.
“Music, its first sound, was born at the same time as the creation of the world,” so stated the ancient sages. All the most ancient teachings of earthly civilizations contain similar statements and experiences of the effects of music on animals, plants and humans. Since time immemorial, people have known that sound has a special miraculous power.
As far back as antiquity, music was separated from the rest of the arts. According to ancient scholars, it was subject to some objective laws and existed independently of man. At the origins of modern music, surprisingly enough, was the famous ancient Greek scientist Pythagoras. More precisely, music existed long before Pythagoras, but he was the first to describe in mathematical terms what are the notes, as well as pleasant and unpleasant to the ear consonances.
After all his experiments, music was declared to be an exact science with harmonic proportions as its main laws. Pythagoras cured many illnesses of mind, soul and body by playing special musical compositions composed by him. At his university in Croton, Pythagoras began and ended the day with singing: in the morning, in order to clear the mind from sleep and excite activity suitable to the day, in the evening the singing was to calm and set up for rest. It is known that the Pythagoreans used special melodies against rage and anger.
Playing a musical instrument trains both auditory, sound and tactile perception, as well as motor skills, all of which produce long-term changes in the brain. Neurobiologists have studied the bodies of professional musicians to understand exactly what changes in the brain.
Brain scans show significant differences between musicians and non-musicians of the same age. For example, the corpus callosum, the plexus of nerve fibers that connects the hemispheres of the brain, is much more massive in musicians.
The areas of the brain responsible for movement, hearing and visual-spatial abilities are enlarged in professional keyboard players. And cellists have a more developed area responsible for processing tactile sensations.
Anatomical changes in the brain depend on the age at which one begins to learn to play a musical instrument.
Those who began practicing as children show more advanced cognitive abilities. Even short periods of practice cause long-lasting changes in a child.
Recent work by scientists shows that learning music speeds the recovery of people who have had a stroke, and may also improve perception of information in children with dyslexia and other language disorders. There is also evidence that music training in childhood protects against the development of cognitive impairment and dementia later in life.
Interesting facts about musical instruments