ดนตรีกับช่องว่างระหว่างหู: บทศึกษาเบื้องต้น

Abstract

Music is a daily context in human life; there is always music everywhere whether people listen or not. Music is a product of mankind and their traditional society. All society characterized by specific cultural patterns of relationships between individuals reflects their fundamental music elements. The common elements are melody, rhythm and timbre. The other distinctive characteristics performed with natural vocal instruments are pitch (which governs melody and harmony) , dynamics (loudness and softness) and texture (which are “color” of a musical sound) . All these elements are combined to create melodious compositions correspond to the audiences’ mood. Moreover, there are another two significant elements : form and content which determined mostly by musician than people in general. The forms of music are not only culturally determined, the appreciation in music is believed to well–established in human brain which lasts for decades or even lifetime. The basis physiological structures needed for musical behavior begins when the infant is about 20 weeks old in the mother’s womb. Until the age of 10, the perceived of tunes through the general sensory acquisition provides the feeling of trust, safe and pleasant. That music becomes the foremost model which the infant can compare with all the new pieces and make choices for their own musical taste. The musical taste is emphasized during adolescent stage at the age of 20 because the human brain is most effective at this stage.