Student Music Study Handbook

Music is an art form made up of sounds produced by voices or instruments, arranged with rhythm, melody, or harmony. Its content is connected in various ways to our interests, aesthetic tastes, words and actions, and relationships. It is an art through which we express, display, and entrust our emotions. Whether we sing, play, or listen, music contains and engages the countless emotional elements within us, because it is connected to the rhythms of our pulse and the fluctuations of our feelings. It has a particularly powerful effect on our minds, one that words cannot express.