The musicology of record production.

Before truely understanding the concepts of musicology and record production I believe we first must ask our selfs a few basic questions before getting to the tough stuff.

Those questions are

1:What is Music?

2:What is the technical definition of music?

3.What is the objective definition of music and were doe it come from?

4. What is the definition of musicology in music production?

5.What is the definition of cognitive music production? and finally the tough stuff, what does music mean to me and how do I understand its meaning as an artist and a student?

THE WEBSTER DICTIONARY DEFINES MUSIC AS BEING THE....

Musical composition can refer to an original piece of music, either a song or an instrumental music piece, the structure of a musical piece, or the process of creating or writing a new song or piece of music. ... People who create new compositions are called composers in classical music including but not limited to electronic music as well.

THE WEBSTER DICTIONARY DEFINES MUSIC AS ?

A vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion.The art or science of composing or performing music. The written or printed signs representing vocal or instrumental sound. The score or scores of a musical composition or compositions of sound and art in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and colour and the tones or sounds employed, occurring in single line (melody) or multiple lines (harmony), and sounded or to be sounded by one or more voices or instruments, or both.

SO WERE DOES MUSIC COME FROM THEN AND WHAT IS THE OBJECTIVE DEFINITION OF MUSIC?

Most music includes people singing with their voices or playing musical instruments, such as the piano, guitar, drums or violin. The word music comes from the Greek word (mousike), which means "(art) of the Muses". In Ancient Greece the Muses included the goddesses of music, poetry, art, and dance.The objective definition of music is that students develop a background in music and musicianship that prepares them for a wide range of further educational and vocational activities that include musicas a component. the main goal and objective of music is so that students will gain skills and learn representative repertoire in a specific musical performance medium if that medium is taught through a learning environment.

THE WEBSTER DICTIONARY DESCRIBES THE MUSICOLOGY OF RECORD PRODUCTION AS.

Musicology (from Greek μουσική (mousikē), meaning 'music', and -λογία (-logia), meaning 'study of') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology is part of the humanities. A scholar who participates in musical research is a musicologist.

Traditionally, historical musicology (commonly termed "music history") has been the most prominent sub-discipline of musicology. In the 2010s, historical musicology is one of several large musicology sub-disciplines. Historical musicology, ethnomusicology, and systematic musicology are approximately equal in size.

Ethnomusicology is the study of music in its cultural context. Systematic musicology includes music acoustics, the science and technology of acoustical musical instruments, and the musical implications of physiology, psychology, sociology, philosophy and computing.

Cognitive musicology is the set of phenomena surrounding the computational modeling of music. In some countries, music education is a prominent sub-field of musicology, while in others it is regarded as a distinct academic field, or one more closely affiliated with teacher education, educational research, and related fields. Like music education, music therapy is a specialized form of applied musicology which is sometimes considered more closely affiliated with health fields, and other times regarded as part of musicology proper.

THE DEFINITION OF COGNITIVE MUSIC PRODUCTION CAN BE DISCRIBED AS

The cognitive neuroscience of music is the scientific study of brain-based mechanisms involved in the cognitive processes underlying music. These behaviours include music listening, performing, composing, reading, writing, and ancillary activities.

Does having a cognitive approach to music help with the understanding of neuroscience?

I believe the answer to this question is yes ,as each producer when creating sound has different neurological triggers that effect the way our sensors in our bodies hear and perceive the sound that we as individuals create.Making each producers sound unique and different.

So I'm lead to ask myself another question branching out from this one that question would be....

How does the stimulus of ones brain and certain receptors in the brain when listening to/or producing music really trigger certain reactions from our central nervous and neurological brain receptors? My answer for this would be that we don't just hear music we feel it.

(Music to me is a feeling, an emotion, an sense of being and purpose and most of all to me music is a feeling of love.)

Is it possible to also argue that music is created purely and solely on a personal level and every producer creates there craft through emotions and feelings? To this questions I also believe that the answer is yes. Music for myself as a producer, does represent a large sense of what my emotional connections to my life and feelings really represent for me at any one particular point in my life.

An example of this is that every song I create has a memory connected to it some how and that all my music is based on real life memories, emotions and the people and places in times in my life that have left a memory for me through my lifetime. To this extent I believe as an artist that ,my music represents these memories I cherish and hold dear and that the sounds I produce are created from thoughts of these particular memories while producing the sound.

I have also found that in moments of what I collectively like to call my artist block moments... that if I'm stuck on creating a particular sound that I'm looking for, sometimes within these moments I find stopping and taking that time to reflect on my work helps to clear my neurological path ways and reflect on past memories from happy times has helped me to find that particular sounds I was stuck on creating in the first place.For myself as an artist who just wants to create something unique and being able to share that with people, to me makes the feeling of creating sound truely amazing.

Finally I like to conclude by saying that music to be is more then just the sound that plays in your ears.It's a feeling,a sensation of being and an emotional power of happiness, sadness,confusion and sometimes anger too all rapped up into one collective amazing sensation you get right from that moment you put your head phones in and press that play button.Putting it simply

MUSIC IS A VIBE..... and music is life. so heres so tracks i created that i think are cool and you will enjoy vibing to....