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I. Background
Music is a kind of art that the media is sound and silence. There are many elements that common in music like pitch (that organize melody and harmony), rhythm (that very close with tempo and articulation), dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture. And the word music is comes from Greek “mousike” and the meaning is art of mouses.
Before talk about music, I think we must know a little about history of music. In theory, maybe history of music can be divided into the study of the genre of the music like rock or jazz. But in this case there are many study about music that I quote in Wikipedia
“Source studies. A desire to examine sources of music closest to the composer or period which produced it has made manuscript, archival, and source study important in almost every field of musicology. In early music in particular, manuscript study may be the only way to study an unedited work. Such study may be complicated by the need to decipher earlier forms of music notation. Manuscript study can also allow a researcher to return to a version of a work prior to the interventions of later editors, perhaps as a basis for her own edition.
Archival work may be conducted to find connections to music or musicians in a collection of documents of broader interests (e.g., Vatican pay records, letters to a patroness of the arts) or to more systematically study a collection of documents related to a musician. In some cases, where records, scores, and letters have been digitized, archival work can be done online. One example of a composer for whom archival materials can be examined online is the Arnold Schoenberg Center.[1]
Performance practice draws on many of the tools of historical musicology to answer the specific question of how music was performed in various places at various times in the past. Scholars investigate questions such as which instruments or voices were used to perform a given work, what tempos (or tempo changes) were used, and how (or if) ornaments were used. Although performance practice was previously confined to early music from the Baroque era, since the 1990s, research in performance practice has examined other historical eras, such as how early Classical era piano concerti were performed, how the early history of recording affected the use of vibrato in classical music, or which instruments were used in Klezmer music.
Biographical studies of composers can give a better sense of the chronology of compositions, influences on style and works, and provide important background to the interpretation (by performers or listeners) of works. Thus biography can form one part of the larger study of the cultural significance, underlying program, or agenda of a work; a study which gained increasing importance in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Sociological studies focus on the function of music in society as well as its meaning for individuals and society as a whole. Researchers emphasizing the social importance of music (including classical music) are sometimes called New musicologists.
Semiotic studies are most conventionally the province of music analysts rather than historians. However, crucial to the practice of musical semiotics - the interpretation of meaning in a work or style - is its situation in an historical context. The interpretative work of scholars such as Kofi Agawu and Lawrence Kramer fall between the analytic and the music historical.”
That is a little history about music. Music is very interesting for everyone I think because with music, people or someone can do everything like dancing, singing, etc, that very fun. Furthermore, now, everyone can get music that they like for their arrangement. But sometimes there are problems that come up because of the music, so lets talk about music deeply.

II. Discussion
Music in our life
There are many kinds of music according to the context and also the culture. And they are divided too into genre and subgenre. Like in Indonesia there are many kind of music based on their culture. And music usually used for entertaining and some ritual that has their different characteristics in different area or district. However, in addition to entertaining and ritual, now, music also use by human in every kinds of their work, like in knowledge, sociology, media and technology, internet, business, education, academia, etc.
For knowledge, music has an important role. Music cognition or study involves many aspects of music. For example how it is processed by listener. And there are a lot of musician does not just play the music but also want to know what kind of story or meaning also purpose or against from the song or music that they played. Moreover, they also try to reveal the similarities between the tradition of the music from many different cultures and anything that become problems in music system. So, they do some research and the facts about music become knowledge.
“Deaf people can experience music by feeling the vibrations in their body, a process that can be enhanced if the individual holds a resonant, hollow object. A well-known deaf musician is the composer Ludwig van Beethoven, who composed many famous works even after he had completely lost his hearing. Recent examples of deaf musicians include Evelyn Glennie, a highly acclaimed percussionist who has been deaf since age twelve, and Chris Buck, a virtuoso violinist who has lost his hearing. This is relevant because it indicates that music is a deeper cognitive process than unexamined phrases such as, "pleasing to the ear" suggests. Much research in music cognition seeks to uncover these complex mental processes involved in listening to music, which may seem intuitively simple, yet are vastly intricate and complex.
University of Montreal researcher Valorie Salimpoor and her colleagues have now shown that the pleasurable feelings associated with emotional music are the result of dopamine release in the striatum--the same anatomical areas that underpin the anticipatory and rewarding aspects of drug addiction”
In addition knowledge, music also has important roles in sociology. There are many kinds of music in this world and the music that everyone consumes is very different too. Sometimes, music become something that show, from what background is someone base on what genre of subgenre that he always hear or use. For example, in Indonesia, the merchant that come from low culture in market usually listen for “dangdut” music and that is make a judgment that everyone that hear “dangdut” is come from low budget or culture. The same thing happened with some people who very like “underground” music. People judge them as criminal person, but actually not all of them is criminal. So, the music also can judge who you are in sociology.
For example, like I quote in Wikipedia “Other types of music—including, but not limited to, jazz, blues, soul, and country—are often performed in bars, nightclubs, and theatres, where the audience may be able to drink, dance, and express themselves by cheering. Until the later 20th century, the division between "high" and "low" musical forms was widely accepted as a valid distinction that separated out better quality, more advanced "art music" from the popular styles of music heard in bars and dance halls.
However, in the 1980s and 1990s, musicologists studying this perceived divide between "high" and "low" musical genres argued that this distinction is not based on the musical value or quality of the different types of music.[citation needed] Rather, they argued that this distinction was based largely on the socioeconomics standing or social class of the performers or audience of the different types of music.[citation needed] For example, whereas the audience for Classical symphony concerts typically have above-average incomes, the audience for a rap concert in an inner-city area may have below-average incomes.[citation needed] Even though the performers, audience, or venue where non-"art" music is performed may have a lower socioeconomic status, the music that is performed, such as blues, rap, punk, funk, or ska may be very complex and sophisticated.
When composers introduce styles of music that break with convention, there can be a strong resistance from academic music experts and popular culture. Late-period Beethoven string quartets, Stravinsky ballet scores, serialism, bebop-era jazz, hip hop, punk rock, and electronica have all been considered non-music by some critics when they were first introduced.[citation needed] Such themes are examined in the sociology of music. The sociological study of music, sometimes called sociomusicology, is often pursued in departments of sociology, media studies, or music, and is closely related to the field of ethnomusicology.”
Music also can not stand alone without media and technology that make them become knew by everyone in this world. Olden, the composer make a song or music and publish them by make a concert if they want everyone know about their music or if they do not have much money to make a concert, they just write their song so that people know that it is his or her song. But now, there are many media if the composer or musician want people know about their work. Nowadays, there are televisions, radio, or internet. People can look musician’s works and project in real condition on television. They can hear just their song in radio or search information about the composer or musician in internet. And nowadays people choose to search or find the song by using internet rather than buy the musician’s cassette. Actually, it makes the musician get some loss, but because of technological sophistication, they still get some advantages from internet or ringtone that people use nowadays.
Like I quote in internet, there are many effect or impact that media and technology has in music. “As talking pictures emerged in the early 20th century, with their prerecorded musical tracks, an increasing number of moviehouse orchestra musicians found themselves out of work.[27] During the 1920s live musical performances by orchestras, pianists, and theater organists were common at first-run theaters.[28] With the coming of the talking motion pictures, those featured performances were largely eliminated. The American Federation of Musicians (AFM) took out newspaper advertisements protesting the replacement of live musicians with mechanical playing devices. One 1929 ad that appeared in the Pittsburgh Press features an image of a can labeled "Canned Music / Big Noise Brand / Guaranteed to Produce No Intellectual or Emotional Reaction Whatever"[29]
Since legislation introduced to help protect performers, composers, publishers and producers, including the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 in the United States, and the 1979 revised Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works in the United Kingdom, recordings and live performances have also become more accessible through computers, devices and Internet in a form that is commonly known as Music-On-Demand.
In many cultures, there is less distinction between performing and listening to music, since virtually everyone is involved in some sort of musical activity, often communal. In industrialized countries, listening to music through a recorded form, such as sound recording or watching a music video, became more common than experiencing live performance, roughly in the middle of the 20th century.
Sometimes, live performances incorporate prerecorded sounds. For example, a disc jockey uses disc records for scratching, and some 20th century works have a solo for an instrument or voice that is performed along with music that is prerecorded onto a tape. Computers and many keyboards can be programmed to produce and play Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) music. Audiences can also become performers by participating in karaoke, an activity of Japanese origin centered on a device that plays voice-eliminated versions of well-known songs. Most karaoke machines also have video screens that show lyrics to songs being performed; performers can follow the lyrics as they sing over the instrumental tracks.
The advent of the Internet has transformed the experience of music, partly through the increased ease of access to music and the increased choice. Chris Anderson, in his book The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More, suggests that while the economic model of supply and demand describes scarcity, the Internet retail model is based on abundance. Digital storage costs are low, so a company can afford to make its whole inventory available online, giving customers as much choice as possible. It has thus become economically viable to offer products that very few people are interested in. Consumers' growing awareness of their increased choice results in a closer association between listening tastes and social identity, and the creation of thousands of niche markets.[30]
Another effect of the Internet arises with online communities like YouTube and MySpace, a social networking service. Such sites simplify connecting with other musicians, and greatly facilitate the distribution of music. Professional musicians also use YouTube as a free publisher of promotional material. YouTube users, for example, no longer only download and listen to MP3s, but also actively create their own. According to Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams, in their book Wikinomics, there has been a shift from a traditional consumer role to what they call a "prosumer" role, a consumer who both creates and consumes. Manifestations of this in music include the production of mashes, remixes, and music videos by fans.”
Talking about impact of media and technology in music, it is very close with business. Music industry set in how to sell the music and how to promote the music so, the buyer or consumer want to buy their music. Industrial music consists of record companies, label, and publisher that publish the music. And in addition, there are some companies that are independent when another company makes group for music industrial. And nowadays music industrial become famous because everyone like to hear music.

Music for teenagers
Nowadays, music is very popular for teen and all ages. Some people like to listen Classic music and other like R&B or hip hop. It depend on their interesting. Even many people like music, but it still has advantages and disadvantages also.First of all, I would like to talk about the advantages of music. There are many advantages, but I'll tell you more details about that. First point, the music can make us feel relieve. Sometimes, when you get in the moody. You can take out your mp3 and listen to it, you will be feel relieve. The music such as hip hop or R&B can help you to get in the good mood again.
Second point, music can make us feel more comfortable. When you listen the romantic music, you such a kind of dreaming or you feel that you can fly and get the romantic feeling. So your feeling more comfortable and being happy all the time.Third point, music can reduce your stresses all the time. When you stress, you listening music or do other activity in order to reduce your stresses step by step. You can listening hip hop music, it's help you smile.This is the last point of listening music, music can bring us in to one society by the meaning of the song. For example, you are listening to the Americana's song ( Dead and Gone), you can learn about the society in America. What happened in that or somethings beside this. Also you can improve your listening skill by listen the English song too.

III. Conclusion
So, music has many advantages also disadvantages depends on how we use it for our life. Like I explain to you in discussion segment, we use music in many segments in our life, like in knowledge, social, media, technology, internet, etc. and for us like teenagers is good for us to use music if it make you better in your life. Use music for studying, so while you do your hobby, ou can get some information too.

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