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In this Padlet I will identify, through my perspective, how I identify with music, how I interact with music everyday, my favorite genre and what music means to me. Before taking MUMH, I have taken music for granted, however, I can now realize the impact it has had in my life. Throughout the information I give on my insight of music, I hope to help you think about how music has impacted your life. In addition, by analyzing my perspective of music on my life , I hope to gain a deeper understanding of the vast diversity of different music and the people associated with said music in other people lives.

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- Music is a harmonic sound that a person hears and then relates to on a personal level.

In the reading for the week, Music Appreciation Textbook Lessons 6, the meaning of Harmony is expressed as a "vertical aspect" and defined as,

"In music, harmony is the use of simultaneous pitches or chords. The study of harmony involves chords and their construction and chord progressions and the principles of that govern them. "

Harmony is a key component of music and for this reason I think that the harmonic quality of music can define music.

Additionally, people can relate to the music through expressing one's emotions in the music itself that one can not do in everyday social interaction. Below is a survey conducted on college campuses around the U.S. asking students what music means to them. As you will see most of them (including my self as stated in my definition above) will relate to the music through expression.

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A short personal view on how does music feel and where do we land today in an era of digital technology. Created by Celluloid Pictures Ltd. at San Francisco State University in 2012 as part of Campus MovieFest, the world's largest student film festival.

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Being an athlete my interaction with music has been a way to get pumped up before games or events. Below shows an example of how Hip-Hop/Rap music and its fast upbeat tempo, correlates with the fast paced action of sports and uses this characteristic to relate to athletes like myself.

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To me, music is a way to get going and ready for the day. I commute and I have 8:00am classes, so, as you can see below, I wake up at 5:25. Because of this, I need something other than 3 gallons of coffee to give me a pep in my step. I like to listen to upbeat fast paced Hip-Hop and pop to give me a little more energy in the morning. Also, relating to the upbeat tempo of Hip-Hop, I learned that the key, which refers to, "the tonic note and chord" according to this weeks reading Music Appreciation Textbook Lessons 6, gives a definition to the "notes and chords in the piece creating varying degrees of tension", also stated by, Music Appreciation Textbook Lessons 6. This acknowledgment further salitifies that when I listen to music I tend to subconsciously analyze the key, which for my instance dealing with hip-hop, consist of closer notes and chords and long predictable tensions