“On October 1, let’s try to turn down the loudspeakers and listen to the music we like – in an intimate, intimate way, without terrorizing others,” wrote violinist and teacher prof. in his message for the International Music Day on October 1. Krzysztof Jakowicz.
Music is able to reach the deepest recesses of the human soul
“One of the greatest composers of the 20th century, Zoltán Kodály, said that music is able to reach the deepest recesses of the human soul,” wrote prof. in a message for this year’s International Music Day. Krzysztof Jakowicz.
“In the times we live in, music is constantly being played in public places – restaurants, shops, homes and shopping malls… Mass events with dominant music are most often organized on the so-called outdoors – in parks, forests, city centers or large stadiums – full of strong beats, amplified beyond measure – heard and felt within a radius of several kilometers, polluting the environment as effectively as exhaust fumes, garbage, plastics,” he emphasized.
The musician recalled that “people who generate this noise do not have enough humility and reflection that they may disturb other inhabitants of our planet – animals, birds, insects, plants that have different sensitivity, often hearing better than us.”
“There is certainly a large number of people who have to suffer in helpless silence many times while hearing this clamoring sound. Hence my desperate appeal – a request for silence on Music Day. On October 1, let’s try to turn down the speakers and listen to the music we like – in an intimate, intimate way, without terrorizing others,” said the author of this year’s message.
“If only on this day such zones of silence appear, the Music created by Nature and the brilliant creators who are an integral part of it (Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin and so many others…) will be able to reach these layers of the human soul , which the Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály talks about so beautifully,” concluded Jakowicz.
International Music Day has been celebrated around the world on October 1 since 1975. The event was initiated by Yehudi Menuhin, then president of the International Music Council, operating under the aegis of UNESCO. The main goal is to present music in such a way that it is associated as the good of humanity and to promote musicians as those who create the beauty of music.
The beauty of music in everything that’s most important
.Music is a unique art. It is no accident that the skill of harmoniously arranging sounds was given the name that originally denoted each of the fields represented by the nine daughters of Zeus and the Titaness Mnemosyne. Because it was noticed early on that tones could be used to shape emotions extremely effectively, already in the times of Socrates, music was included in the canon of a free man’s education. Plato claimed that it is for the soul what physical exercises are for the body, and the ancient system of scales (modi) – carriers of meanings and moods – influenced music theory until the times of Bach. In the medieval university curriculum, music was included in the quadrivium – a higher level, where it accompanied arithmetic, geometry and astronomy. It was taught among the exact sciences both because of its close connection with mathematics and because of the Greek philosophical concept of numerical harmony of the world, codified by Boethius at the turn of the 5th and 6th centuries. Today, thanks to non-invasive imaging methods, we are beginning to understand the processes by which music “moves the soul” by influencing the frequency of brain waves, which opens a new chapter in understanding its impact.
For centuries, music has remained an extremely important element of every culture. It is a specific language of emotions, a language without words, although with rich semantics. A universal language, universally understood, knows no political boundaries, and at the same time allows for strong cultural identification. And this feature was particularly common in musical works in the nineteenth century. Polish music of the 19th century will be one of the main pillars of the “Beauty of Music” section on the “Everything What’s Most Important” website. We will successively note down everything that is beautiful and important on sheet music written on the Vistula River and in emigration. We will remind you of the achievements of well-known (though not always fully appreciated) composers, from Moniuszko to Szymanowski, but we will also recall almost forgotten figures, such as Franciszek Lessel or outstanding Polish composers – Maria Szymanowska and Tekla Bądarzewska.
For centuries, music has remained an extremely important element of every culture. It is a specific language of emotions, a language without words, although with rich semantics.
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