What makes music, music? It is a complicated topic that has no defined universal explanation and comes down to personal belief. The definition says its beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion but where those lines are drawn is impossible to pinpoint. Why does this connect to my topic? Well, nearing the end of our Romeo and Juliet project by having a live presentation, we were split into four groups; creative, production, script and technical – the group I’m in. The technical team covered three things, most importantly being music and sound effects.

Good music can’t be defined but there are factors to make it instinctively sound better. Being sociable, music allows us to connect to others and share a common emotion/feeling. Emotions drive a song to be good and make it almost addicting to the listener. “Good music” needs to be considered truly good by the general public.

Alongside the emotions of music, certain things sound better than others naturally, but why is that? On the most basic note, chords are just made by putting a few notes together calling it a day but rather notes sound better (consonant) when they are spaced out by certain intervals. Better music also has short distances from note to note in the melodies and the chords are structured similarly to each other. If you want a more in-depth paper on what makes music sound good click here.

 

Music tells stories, emotions and human problems. It serves as a tool to express different cultures. So hopefully, our music can help enhance our play and makes it more engaging overall.