Known as one of the most skilled pianist, Hamelin once said that music is the biggest and the most beautiful blessing for mankinds. Looking around for a few seconds, we realize his statement to be quite true. We enjoy various kinds of music in our everyday life. In Saturday evening, people walk inside a music hall to watch a performance of an orchestra. Almost every people consider a party without music dull. In a busy square, young people are walking the streets with their earphones on their ears. Why is the music important to human? The reasons are as follows: itself as an entertainment and heal.
Music is an important existence for people because it can entertain and soothe their mind. Music has been accepted as an art since the time before the arise of first civilizations; it is similar to drawings, literatures, movies and so on. Musics carry various emotions, and those are become our feelings when we are listening to music. Then the feeling become the source of the energy of our life, so we can have ourselves recharged. For instance, I always carry my music player with me. In the device are the musics, the number of which is about two thousands. They vary in genre, from classics and acoustics to electronics and jazz. There are always some songs I would enjoy when I want myself be refreshed. When I walk down the street in late night after the hectic academic schedule, I choose upbeat and brisk songs to get rid of stress. While I feel worried or depressed over some matters, I would first turn on serene and peaceful music to calm down my mind. Music is very effective tool when it comes to soothing my mind. Thus, based on the reason and the example above, music plays an big role in human world as an entertainment.
Moreover, music can be used for not only fun but also remedy. Nowadays, music therapy, a way to heal mentally disordered patients by using musics, are gaining the spotlights. The treatment originated from the idea that music is a way to soothe people's mind, and got developed by scientific researches. Now, this approach to cure patients are being applied to people going through depressions, and patients with trauma, persecutory delusions or schizophrenia. What is more, supported by the experiment result that shows a music's ability to boost one's rehabilitation speed, the treatment is used on patients involved in serious accidents. For example, one day I visited my friend who was ran over a car, thus going through rehabilitation process. The moment I saw him in the physical therapy center, he was swinging his legs up and down in moderate velocity, following the rhythm of a piano etude. After the treatment, he told me that the music helps him to not only control the speed of the exercise but also to relieve the nervous system and therefore to alleviate the pain. Thus, it is evident that music is one of the solutions to treat mental or physical illnesses.
People are linked tightly to the music, and they live with it. It would be because they find their joy and cure inside the world of melodies and rhythms, absolutely. |