MUSIC: AN IMITATION OF THE HUMAN LIFE

Okeke Ikedimma Nwabufo

Abstract


This paper has explored the very many peculiar ways music imitates the human life. These imitations have been captured in vocal, choral, and instrumental music. They are also manifest in all the elements of music such as melody, harmony, texture, tone colour, etc. Nature has always been a source of inspiration to music and the human life has even been a more overwhelming influence on music. Human conception, gestation, birth, growth, and death are all imitated and echoed in musical inspiration, composition, development, and performance. This fascination for nature (the human life) is so strong that music, as an art, may never disentangle from it.

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