WebLog | World Next Door Music™ · Music Makers Weblog

A Weblog for Music Makers, Performers, and Listeners. Share your music stories.

We are not as active posting as we should be as we are Making, Creating, and Performing music, as well as listening to others and appreciating music as it should be. We do not post as often as we would like, but that does not mean we are not here to collaborate, discuss, engage, and share in constructive, productive, and positive words about creating enjoyable and challenging music.

Music is an art form, and cultural activity, whose medium is sound. Music includes common elements such as pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (such as tempo, meter, and articulation), dynamics (loudness and softness), and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture (which are sometimes termed the color of a musical sound). Different styles or types of music may emphasize, de-emphasize or omit some of these elements. Music is performed with instruments and vocal techniques ranging from singing to rapping

Music touches our lives in many ways and effects us with positive and negative emotions. It makes us laugh, dance, cry, sing loudly, reminisce, reflect, and find joy in the words and music we hear.

In some ways, music is a lot like literature. It can be pleasing, enlightening, even life-changing. A great song, like a great book, affects the listener in unanticipated ways and resonates long after the music has ceased.

“We are the Music Makers and we are the Dreamers of Dreams” — Willy Wonka from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory written by Roald Dahl in 1964.