Music/Writing and Me.

Introduction
 Who can say that they do not have an
interest in music?
Who can argue that music hasn’t affected them,
in one time in their lives?
If anyone can say that music has not affected
them, then can someone answer
the question of why are there first dances at
weddings?
Why do we have favorite songs that we class as
‘ours’?
I’ve chosen to focus on Music for this presentation,
because not only is it
something that’s involved in my life daily, it’s
something that can relate to
Definition of Music
 • an artistic form of auditory communication
incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured
and continuous manner
 • any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds; "he
fell asleep to the music of the wind chimes“
 • musical activity (singing or whistling etc.); "his music
was his central interest“
 • (music) the sounds produced by singers or musical
instruments (or reproductions of such sounds)
 • punishment for one's actions; "you have to face the
music"; "take your medicine"
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  According to the study, Kids & Media @ The New Millennium music is a
dominant force in kids' lives. "After TV, music is the medium of choice for
most
Statistics
kids, especially older teens," said Donald F. Roberts, Jr., Ph.D., professor of
communication at Stanford University and an author of the study.

Amount of time kids spend each day, on average:

Listening to music 1:27
Percent of kids who spend more than an hour a day:
Listening to CDs or tapes 19%
Amount of time kids spend each week, on average:
Listening to music 10:04

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Hour:Minutes)
 I began to believe from a very young age that a problem
shared was a problem halved, at least. But when there was
Escapism in Music
nobody to share with, I turned to pen and paper. My problems
became euphemisms in my poems, which later became lyrics.
Instead of feeling engrossed and melancholy from reading my
problems on paper, because I had euphemized them
subconsciously, I felt pride and relief oozing out of me instead.
This figure of ‘nobody’ that I had to share my problems with,
became an entity of a whole separate world, that was clear
and defined by me. It’s a world I admire and look up to, to this
very day.
How does this link to my
 I believe
interest inthat Music influenced me in
Music?
writing from the very beginning. To be
aware of
how to write such things as poems or
lyrics, I personally believe an
understanding
of rhythm is required. Music was always
present in my mind, just not one set
genre. That’s where writing songs came
into the equation.