Music is, and ever was, a constant in my life.
I grew up listening my parents playing the piano. I still
remember my first piano class.
Today I like to play different kind of music. Of course I
began with the classical music, which is a universo it self. There aren´t just
one kind of classical musical. We can find a big group of music called Early
music, that is music composed and played from XV to begining of XVII century.
Before Early music, you can talk about Medieval music, that
are divided in Juglar music and Church music.
But after Early music, we begin to listen Baroque music,
wich is singularly beautiful.
Of course I learned listen a lot of music and I asking to my
self what kind of music the people listened in other times and making links
between some historical character and the music in his or her time.
I enjoy Jazz, Blues and Rock and Roll, which are big groups
of many differents kinds of music.
But I think that classical music has the power to amaze
people who are not used to listening, or even do not know very well that kind
of music. We can see it in films. I really think that a big part of success of
any movie it i son its soundtrack.
I think my favorite composer is Bach. Of course I enjoy
hundreds composers of all times, but Johann Sebastian Bach is really unique. I
always remember a TV documentary that remember a quote of a biologist called
Lewis Thomas. When he was asked what message he would choose to send from Earth
into outer space in the Voyager spacecraft, he answered, "I would send the
complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach." After a pause, he added,
"But that would be boasting."
As you can read, music is very important for me and my life.
As the teacher wrote, hearing is one of the first sense that human being
develope before the birth.
Today I still play the piano in my free times. I have a little
son that is learning cello with a particular teacher. I hope he knows how to
appreciate good music as I think I do.
