There is a famous saying that “music is a food for soul.” It is right that music has a great influence on our body and lives. There are different forms of music and the most popular are classical and the rock music. The classical and popular music inhabit different worlds, where people take them in different ways. This paper will shed light on the advantages and disadvantages of classical and the popular music and the difference between them.
The classical music has a great history and is available in different forms. It is evident that classical music is bit complex as a listener should have patience and interest to enjoy this music. The great examples of the classical music that are appreciated all over the world come from famous composers such as Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert. According to these musicians, the classical music has numerous advantages.
It is a commonly known fact that the music can bring listeners to a positive state of mind, by eliminating their anxiety and depression. The classical music with soft instruments tends to help the listeners to prevent the stress response. (Sarah) It helps the people to be more creative with high levels of hopefulness. Moreover, the classical music has a good impact on the human body as it helps to lower the blood pressure, which can minimize the risk of strokes. The classical music has helped a lot of people to boost their immunity and to deal with the issues such as ADD, insomnia, seizures, mental illnesses and muscle tension. (Sarah)
According to some researchers, the classical music is helpful for the brain development. It can also stimulate creativity and have a tendency to build emotional and social skills. (Solomon) The beauty of classical music can be seen in a way that different musical instruments are played together in a beautiful harmony that has a soothing effect on one’s body and soul. In the majority of the classical music concerts, people are calm and pay attention to the musicians’ performances. (Solomon) There are different types of classical music, and they tend to have a different impact on human body. For instance, the romantic artist “Frederic Chopin” can enhance the listener’s sense of love and sympathy. Likewise, the classical religious music such as gospel and hymns can provide spiritual awareness and deep peace to the listener.
There are different types of classical and popular music as different artists and composers created different genres or versions of music. (Julita) Classical music is melodious, comforting and easy to listen, but a little boring as well. Even though the classical music has a lot of advantages, but it does have some disadvantages at the same time. These days people find classical music little boring, because of its slow rhythm and complex composition. Today, people don’t find classical music attractive anymore because they are not able to fully grasp the key concepts. The controlling factors for classical music such as shifting between low and high notes, complex lyrics and immediate shift of one instrument to another are hard to understand. Secondly, classical music requires some patience and people these days wants to have music that is melodious and provides energy to them.
The other type of music is popular music which includes Rock’n’Roll, Pop, Rock, Metal and Hard Rock. The popular music has gained much reputation in the past two decades. The main reason is that people don’t find classical music interesting anymore. A lot of people say that they feel bored when they listen to classical music. However, they feel more energetic with the musicians and the instruments of popular music. This energy can be of a different type such as love, hate, peace and so on. People prefer popular music as they can express their strong feeling with this type of music. (Julita) The reaction of people with regards to the rock music is also different. In rock and pop music concerts, the audience is connected to each other with the feelings of power. Similarly, the musicians also feel connected with the fans by way of adrenaline rush that flows into their body.
It is found that rock music has strong beats that have a tendency to stimulate the brain. This type of music helps to have sharper concentration as well as more alert thinking. (GPLBEN) The famous rock bands such as Guns ‘n’ Roses, Nirvana, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Metallica, U2, Linkin Park and famous Eagles had provided exceptionally great rock music. The common thing among these bands is to create lasting benefits for listeners’ state of mind, even after one has stopped listening. (GPLBEN) The heavy metal and rock music can easily excite one’s nervous system, which leads to the self-expression and dynamic behavior. For instance, the music from the King of Las Vegas “Elvis Presley” and the band “Rolling Stones” has a tendency to stir passion and activity, which is helpful in releasing daily stress and anxiety. (GPLBEN)
Besides the advantages of the popular music, there are also some disadvantages. A lot of people use to say that rock music isn’t soothing as the heavy instruments used such as lead guitars and drums use to create unpleasant noises. Also, the rock music has a tendency to create dissonance and stress when a listener isn’t in a mood of energizing. While listening to rock music people use to behave weirdly such as they clap and bang their heads which sometimes results in vertigo and nausea.
It is also studied that rock music is also responsible for promoting violence, and drug abuse within the society as the leading artists and the musicians display violent actions drug abuse during their performances. The followers use to adopt same styles which have bad consequences. (Lombardi) For instance, the drug abuse in song “November Rain” and “Sweet Child of Mine” by “Guns’ n’ Roses” is displaying usage of alcohol and marijuana. Likewise, in most of the stage performances by “Led Zeppelin” the use of marijuana can be clearly seen. These things arouse the emotions of fans, and they use to adopt the same style which raises the issue of drug abuse within the society. (Lombardi)
In a nutshell, we can say that there are millions of fans for both of classical and rock music. Classical music comes with a proper introduction, body and conclusion, which makes it free flowing and a passionate type of music. This music is a natural stress reliever, whereas the rock music is fast and has no boundaries. The rock music tends to make body pro-active and restless. It is important that once must differentiate between these genres of music to understand them fully. In the end, both of these music types are a form of communication of music arts in our world Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.
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