The Beauty of Classical Music

Mozart once said, “I pay no attention to anybody’s praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings”. That is the Beauty of Classical Music. The point in this world where words cease to exist, music begins. Classical Music is the language of communicating emotions, feelings, and gratitude towards people. People like Franz Schubert, Johnny Cash, Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, and Pandit Jasraj, have immortalized this form of art in the hearts of appreciators and lovers.

Classical Music is like watching Television at the highest possible definition and quality. After getting into Classical Music, everything else seems a bit monochrome. A vast range of dynamics, emotions, harmonic language, orchestration, and everything in between, that makes other forms of music just plain. But, every good thing has a down side as well. It is really tough to learn.

Years of Dedication and Hard Work, countless hours of practicing and training, and yet a few are able to master it. This inability to master an art has caused the depreciation in the audience, and the interest base of the art. Not exponentially, but gradually.

For instance, Tarana, a vocal form in Indian Classical Music, probably best represents the vocalist's urge to move away from song-text and into the realm of instrumental music. It uses syllables like dere, naa, deem, tana, and pakhawaj syllables. These syllables, therefore, are used as a musical language tied in with melody and rhythm, allowing musicians to be unfettered by the restrictions that literal language may pose. Classical music brings you closer to the tune, and makes you independent of the lyrics.

It is a conventional wisdom that every singer, sooner or later, will come to learn Classical Music. Not just singers, musicians and artists would eventually turn to classical forms of the respective arts.

Every form of art, eventually, rolls down to the classical roots. No matter what the genre, no matter what the background, classical music is always present in every form of music that is present in the world. That is the beauty of Classical Music.