Assalamualaikum and a very good morning to my fellow friends, and mostly to our lecturer Sir Fazlul Haque b Hj. Kamarudin. Today, on this fine morning, I would like to present to you a public speech about 'Music helps us to express every kind of emotion and can induce multiple responses.'
Music. We hear it almost every day. No matter where we are, music will always be played either on the radio or just by humming a tune. Did you know that music started as early as the Paleolithic era? So music is about 200 000 years old.
Music and society have always been intimately related. Music reflects and creates social conditions – including the factors that either facilitate or impede social change. It is powerful at the level of the social group because it facilitates communication which goes beyond words, enables meanings to be shared, and promotes the development and maintenance of individual, group, cultural and national identities.
Music is written theoretically and made real practically. Music is like an international language. Even though we do not understand the lyrics but we understand the melody. The rhythm. The harmony. It has the power to make us cry, be happy, deep in thought and many other emotions that may be drawn out from within. Listening to certain music has been shown to improve mood, increase productivity, and even encourage intellectual growth.
Music used in advertising to catch your attention. Music helps to express every kind of emotion, whether sad, happy, excited, or even boredom. It is powerful at the individual level because it can induce multiple responses – physiological, movement, mood, emotional, cognitive and behavioral. A song can relate to any and every emotion, even the unnamed ones as well as change our mood for the better or for the worse, we relate songs to moments in our lives and hold on to them for that moment they are playing, they get stuck in our heads and drive us crazy, they are poetry and they touch us in