MUSICAL LANGUAGE

Musical language is an essential subject for the development of musical literacy of any person. It teaches us to understand how sounds and their rhythm are represented graphically on paper and to name what we hear, generating a sound and musical consciousness. In short, it teaches us the bases of musical organic matter, which although in many aspects is very intuitive, in relation to its notation it requires certain prior knowledge before understanding it.  

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We can find two large areas: sounds and rhythm. One of the fundamental pillars on which music is based is not to understand sounds in an absolute way, but to understand them in relation to other sounds . Once this is understood, one begins to understand that the interval (the sound relationship between two sounds) is the simplest phoneme that we can find at a sound level in music, and it is the pillar on which every piece of music is built. The amazing thing is that this relationship principle can be applied to all music and is exponential. The most basic relationship is the interval, but when we begin to listen to a melody that is made up of intervals, the same interval can mean very different things depending on where and where it is. And so with everything we can hear: its meaning will always depend on the relationship with what is heard before and after.

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Rhythm is what organizes sounds in time . It consists in understanding the separation between each note, and in understanding experientially the patterns that are repeated when we have a certain rhythm. That rhythm in turn has a notation, which is to a great extent much easier to understand and access than the notation of sounds.

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In any case, the musical language is essential because it helps us to relate to the score and to understand the bases of the language (especially written). However, it is far from having the competence to teach musical content and meaning. One can know the alphabet and even the words, but to understand a poetry, you need an understanding far superior to the academic understanding of a language. It is in later studies of harmony , analysis and composition where the meaning and content of music is deepened.

In musical learning, it must be borne in mind that intuition is part of the development of skills. Intuition will always be a powerful tool to anticipate understanding of reason, and music is used daily and continuously way. But one thing should not be fighting with the other, since analysis and learning from reason helps us to understand even better that intuitive capacity that we all have.

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