Mousike

Music is an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions insignificant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, and harmony ..There are various type and style of music. They are Hindustani, Carnatic, folk style, lullaby (Talattu,) and so on andon.. The Music is very essential to a man kind from birth till death.Not only in India it is worldwide necessity to living people.
The Music notes called Swaram refers to a type of single note,which defines a relative higher or lower position of a note and relativity of its frequency. Swarams referred to vocalist of all music, which consist of seven notes. Carnatic music"sa-ri-ga-ma-pa-da-ni" Hindustani Saragam. sa-re-ga-ma-pa-dha-ni or Western do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti .Any music system is followed by only seven notes
History says the musical composition comes from the Greek “Mousike” byway of the Latin word 'Musica ' In ancient Greece, the word mousike was used to mean any of the arts or sciences governed by the Muses. Later, in Rome, arts musica embraced poetry as well as instrument-oriented music. In the European Middle Ages musica waspart of the mathematical quadrivium ,arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and musica. In fifth century the concept of musica was split into four major kinds as musica universalis, musica humana, musica instrumentals and musica divina..In this four the musica instrumental was designated that music is sound.
Furthermore the sources of "art music" throughout the world have always been different , with each music a mixture of the policy of extending the rule influences in its own right. Over the past century however,musical hybridization has become increasingly radical and explicit.Such mixtures have emerged from musical cultures as diverse as China,Korea , Indonesia , Japan, African-American culture , as well as European and American cultures The emergence of these hybrids suggest of involving several part of world "world art music"unfastened to a single cultural context. Because of the cultural complexity of each alloyed style in every unique composition, world art music offers unexampled challenges and opportunities for composers, performers, and listener..
Another source of prehistoric evidences says The music can only be the based on findings from 'Paleolithic'

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archeology sites. Flutes are often discovered, carved from bones in which situated with holes have been pierced; these are thought to have been blown at one end like the Japanese Shakuhachi. The Divje Babe flute, carved from a cave bear femur, is thought to be at least 40,000 years old. Indus Vally Civilization archaeological sites have been recovered such as Instruments the seven-hole flute and various types of Stringed instruments, from Ravanahatha,(Sri Lanka) India has one of the oldest musical traditions in the world—references to Indian classical music (marga) are found in the Vedas, ancient scriptures of the Hindu tradition. The earliest and largest collection ofprehistoric musical instruments was found in China and dates back tobetween 7000 and 6600 BC. The Hurrian song, found on clay tablets that date back to approximately 1400 BC, is the oldest surviving notated work of music.

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Music psychology, is a branch of musicology. It aims to explain and understand musical behaviour and musical experience. Modern music psychology is mainly guided by experience: music-psychological knowledge tends to advance primarily on the basis of interpretations of data about musical behaviour and experience. Which are collected by systematic observation of and interaction with human participants. Music psychology is a field of research with practical relevance for music performance, composition, education, medicine, and music therapy.
The field of music perception involves the study of many aspects including how it is processed by listeners, rather than accepting the standard practices of analyzing, composing, and performing music as a given, much research in music cognition seeks instead to uncover the mental processes that underlie these practices. Also, research in the field seeks to uncover commonalities between the musical traditions of disparate cultures and possible psychological feature "constraints"that limit the musical systems. Questions regarding musical innateness, and emotional responses to /music are also major areas of research in the field.
Research shows that children receiving Carnatic classical musical training were in advantage for phonological awareness (PA) and verbal working memory(VWM) along with enhanced pitch improvisation, pitch perception abilities. It was also found that the children who had under gone longer duration of training showed better performance in these areas.Post-operative patients can ease their pain and reduce their dependence on pain-killers by listening to One of the famous Ragas ofCarnatic music, Anandha Bhairavi.he will feel pleasure and no pain.
The conclusion whatever the country or Language the music is divines wisdom.

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