Music is an art. An art is that medium which
attempts to imitate reality. This imitation can be of two basic types:
the first is precise such that the result of the art is known as real
directly. In visual art, for example, a painted portrait of a person
would resemble the person quite exactly. The identity of the person
would be preserved as would the most prominent attributes, allowing
easy recognition. The second type of imitation in art is not precise
such as an impressionistic or a surrealistic
representation would imply. Modern art is filled with this type of
imitation of reality. Thus, visual artists can rely upon distortion or
altered perspective, for example, and still play in the field of
reality. The essence of classical music wherein the medium is not visual
since it is sound can be understood by this analogy to visual art.
It is in classical music where harmony is preserved and where
mellifluous texture and matching tones please the mind. There may be
some cacophony or discord in some styles of classical music. However,
the primary motive of a classical piece is to depict the integrity of
the simple beauty of euphonies, combinations of sounds that agree with
one another and thus have a pleasing effect. It is true that we
can perceive one objective truth such as harmony by hearing its
opposite, cacophony. That perception by inference is an example of an
inexact imitation. Similarly, we can hanker for softness when we hear
harshness in a piece or in a style of music altogether.
In classical composing, this composer
chooses to reflect upon the natural sounds to be heard in a wood, by a
pond, by a stream or on a mountain where the wind in the trees and the
distinctive music of the creatures may create a symphonic truth, a
presence or a reality so glorious to existence that only beautiful
melodies and perfect harmonics can attempt to imitate the subjective
reality gleaned from that nature's exposition of sound. The language of
music has the power to depict and to capture the presence of a mountain,
a tree or a lake as a mere entity. This composer finds great
inspiration in reflecting as well upon the dynamics of action in nature
wherein one interacts with the beautiful surround. In the wondrous ski
world, say, where harmony and equalization with winter are realized, the
sonorous classical music style addresses with rhythms, topical themes
and resounding melodies a skier in devoted action, skiing on the
mountain of winter.
One can query as to how such
depiction can occur with such a diffuse, indirect language as music if
one accepts music as a language in the first place. For unlike visual
perception wherein we
experience form, color, symmetry, three-dimensional perspective, and the
names to match that objective reality, sound offers a more suggestive
perception through music. Music confers a subjective dominance of
realization, even self-realization, in the perceiver who is the
listener. In the style of classical music, the very constitutional
attributes of the sound wave itself are preserved in their natural
harmonics. And this preservation of harmonics, the simple,
mathematical, symmetrical proportionalities producing melody and
harmony, lends the style that is classical music to the matching tones,
to the sweeping thematic statements and the various descriptive textures.
Thus, classical music not only
pleases the mind but also can portray the reality that is nature.
Indeed,
classical music is endowed with the potential mode of ineffable abstract
elevation whereupon much like equations sheer ideation and conceptual
complacency ascend unto a soaring platform for musical artistry. Whether ethereal
or bucolic, this is
God's Creation to be reflected upon through music, classical music.
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representation would imply. Modern art is filled with this type of
imitation of reality. Thus, visual artists can rely upon distortion or
altered perspective, for example, and still play in the field of
reality. The essence of classical music wherein the medium is not visual
since it is sound can be understood by this analogy to visual art.
It is in classical music where harmony is preserved and where
mellifluous texture and matching tones please the mind. There may be
some cacophony or discord in some styles of classical music. 
experience form, color, symmetry, three-dimensional perspective, and the
names to match that objective reality, sound offers a more suggestive
perception through music. Music confers a subjective dominance of
realization, even self-realization, in the perceiver who is the
listener. In the style of classical music, the very constitutional
attributes of the sound wave itself are preserved in their natural
harmonics. And this preservation of harmonics, the simple,
mathematical, symmetrical proportionalities producing melody and
harmony, lends the style that is classical music to the matching tones,
to the sweeping thematic statements and the various descriptive textures.
his is
God's Creation to be reflected upon through music, classical music.
