Music has impacted humans for centuries through its arrangement of sounds that often influence our emotions. Through music, a connection between different people, cultures, and societies is formed, proving its power beyond it being an arrangement of sounds. Thus, music is imperative to our humanity, as it influences our emotions and keeps us in touch with them. If someone is sad, they may listen to happy music to make them feel more upbeat or listen to sad music to help them work through their feelings.
Beyond music being a vital part of our humanity, music is also a science. Through sounds, rhythms, vibrations, and more, music is produced in a way that is formulaic, similar to math and science problems. Music studies sound created by certain vibrations to create a pattern that eventually turns into a rhythm, or an arrangement of sounds, that elicits something out of the person listening to it.
The present volume is not intended as a treatise on the science and art of music, nor does it presuppose upon the part of the reader any training in music either scientific or artistic. It is addressed to that portion of the intelligent reading public having an interest in music whether with or without training in it. The message it is hoped to convey is that music has a twofold root, one branch going in the direction of science, the other in the direction of art. The artistic approach to music is already cultivated with astonishing zeal, though with what wisdom may be open to question. That there is a scientific approach to music is quite ignored. It is as an urgent invitation to cultivate the scientific approach to music that the book has been written. If it shall establish that there is a scientific aspect to music, and shall persuade of the advisability of approaching music from the scientific as well as from the artistic side, it will have accomplished its purpose.
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