Musicality is musical talent, ear for music, musical ability

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

There have been and there are many musical performers in the world, but does this mean that each of them is gifted and has abilities on a par with the rest? Why are some people remembered for centuries, while others are kept in the head like a flash that fades after a while?

Basis

People of any profession cannot become masters of their craft at the click of a button. But what separates the creative world from all the rest?

The gift of music is something that cannot be acquired. Musicality is an innate ability to feel, hear and penetrate the secret nooks and crannies of the world of harmonies and sounds.

Scientifically speaking: musicality is a talent by which the subject, with effort, can be formed as an artist.

Talent includes a whole set of inclinations that come with birth “as a gift.”

Bonuses

As mentioned earlier, musical talent consists of a number of opportunities that are given to the child in utero. Common Components:

• feeling and perception;
• ear of music;
• sense of rhythm;
• musical memory.

There is a separate list of criteria for future composers:

• fantasy;
• musical intelligence;
• auditory representation.

For vocalists, in addition to good hearing, the main condition is vocal abilities. Undoubtedly, they can and should be developed, but to what range and power the voice can be done is already a question for nature.

Musicians-instrumentalists need to have a certain physiological structure of the hands and their phalanges. I would like to immediately note that this criterion is only desirable, but not mandatory. There are many examples of exceptions in which performers went against nature.

It is worth taking into account that studying the musicality of children is a very important and complex process, but necessary for a prosperous future creative career.

Do you hear?

The question of musical ear, perhaps, should be the most important in this topic. "Why?" - you ask. And here's your answer: hearing is the basis of musicality.

Without an ear for music, even with incredible effort, a person will not be able to merge into the sea of sounds and completely dive to its bottom. Through listening, people develop the ability to perceive information musically and reproduce it accordingly.

There are 2 types of musical ear: absolute and relative.

Absolute

The first type occurs 1 in 10 thousand people, if we take into accountstatistics of Europe, Russia and the USA. Possessing such talent does not necessarily imply the need to develop in the musical field. People with absolute pitch also work in other activities, no different from the rest.

For the lucky ones with perfect hearing, musicality is a challenge when viewed from an artistic perspective.

The peculiarity lies in the fact that with the help of one ear, he has the ability to determine the exact pitch and tone. Even turning his back to the instrument, in a split second, he will hear the level of the note and say its name.

Mistakes do occur, but very minor and in rare cases.

Pros of being so gifted:

• Useful and very practical quality for musical performers. This is especially true for professionals with string instruments (violin, cello), where all responsibility falls on the musician's ear when his playing is not backed up by temperamental (piano) accompaniment.
• Facilitates learning in musical literacy. It is easier for students to write dictations, study harmony and modulations.

Unfortunately, like any phenomenon, there are opposite sides:

• Perception of music from an emotional angle becomes quite difficult, since the "scanner" of sounds cannot be turned off. A person, hearing absolutely everything, even the most miserable inaccuracies, is no longer able to fully explore the sound from a different (sensual) angle.
• Relativeimpure sound can "ride over the ears" even during normal life, when a person does not interact with music.
• Perfect hearing can interfere with the development of phonemic perception - oral speech, and especially foreign.

But if not absolute?

The second type is common among many musicians. Its essence lies in the fact that with the help of it you can hear and reproduce sounds at the correct pitch, but the exact name of the note cannot be determined.

The development of such hearing is done in solfeggio lessons. With proper training, a musician is able to distinguish intervals, chords and modulations (transitions) to other keys, as well as hit the exact pitch of notes (without even knowing their names).

Relative pitch is perfect for musical-emotional perception. After all, miserable inaccuracies are not a hindrance to him.

Other features

In addition to the two basic types, there are also other branches of musical ear:

• melodic - provides the feeling of a melody or phrase in a coherent form;
• harmonic - the perception of simultaneous sounding of notes (intervals and chords);
• modal - the ability to recognize modes (Lydian, Phrygian, etc.), as well as modal-tonal processes (stability, instability, resolution);
• polyphonic - the ability to hear the sounds of 2 or more voices in motion;
• timbral - the ability to recognize and distinguish the sound coloring of voices and instruments.

There isAnother interesting view is inner hearing. Its peculiarity lies in the mental representation of the sound of notes.

Composer Beethoven was completely deaf at the end of his life, but, nevertheless, continued to write. But how? Inner hearing played a role, as a result of which the works sounded in his head.

Where does it begin?

As mentioned earlier, the gift for the world of sounds is given from birth. Musicality is often a hereditary gift. For example, J. S. Bach received a huge baggage of talent from his relatives. However, regardless of the amount of inclinations, music is something that needs to be worked hard on. Nicolo Paganini, the most famous virtuoso violinist, began his studies at the age of 5, when his father noticed the makings of his son.

How can you see opportunities in childhood? The development of musical abilities is recommended to start as early as possible, but this by no means means that with age it becomes impossible to master the art of music.

The first thing you should pay attention to is how the child perceives the sound, whether he can feel the mood and character, and also show his any feelings in relation to what he heard.

The second no less important point is the ability to listen, compare and notice bright and understandable (for his age) moments.

The third, perhaps the most important, is imagination, with the help of which images and associations can arise in a child. Thanks to them, he is able to reproduce his fantasies in games, dances and singing.

Music artists

For hundreds and hundreds of years of the existence of musical art, it has counted about a thousand or even a million figures, but someone's talent and its subsequent development turned out to be not just successful, but the greatest human asset.

Short list of foreign composers: Handel, Bach, Wagner, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Strauss, Liszt, Verdi, Debussy, Vivaldi, Paganini, etc.

Domestic composers: Glinka, Borodin (also a chemist and doctor), Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Cui, Balakirev, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Sviridov, Stravinsky, Shostakovich and others.

In addition to the brilliant composers, the performers of their works should have been just as talented.

Only some of the musical geniuses of the 20th-21st centuries:

• Dmitry Hvorostovsky (baritone);
• Muslim Magomayev (baritone);
• Luciano Pavarotti (tenor);
• Jose Carreras (tenor);
• Andrea Bocelli (tenor blind musician)
• Maria Callas (soprano);
• Anna Netrebko (soprano);
• Cecilia Bartoli (coloratura mezzo-soprano)
• Tamara Sinyavskaya (mezzo-soprano);
• Valery Gergiev (conductor);
• Vladimir Spivakov (conductor);
• David Oistrakh (violinist, violist, conductor);
• Jascha Heifetz (violinist);
• Leonid Kogan (violinist)
• Denis Matsuev (pianist);
• Van Cliburn (pianist);
• Arthur Rubinstein (pianist);
• Sergei Rachmaninoff (pianist);
• Vladimir Horowitz (pianist);
• Louis Armstrong(trumpeter);
• Mile Davis (trumpeter) and others

How is this possible?

Music is a world where our eyes are our ears. Everyone knows the old fact that in case of deterioration or absence of any ability of the brain, compensation for this is received by another of its spheres. Therefore, it is not at all surprising such a phenomenon as blind musicians. They are by nature much more likely to have an absolute ear for music. And also, apart from them, people with other characteristics, such as Williams syndrome and autism, differ.

One of the most famous blind musicians is the aforementioned singer Andrea Bocelli, as well as pianist Art Tatum and jazz artist Ray Charles.

This list should also include the greatest composer - J. S. Bach. His eyes began to lose their function since childhood.

If the previously listed musicians were blind due to accidents, the situation of Salavat Nizametdinov is completely different. The composer has not been seen since birth, but, nevertheless, he was able to write opera compositions.

Result

Musicality is a generous gift of nature, which in no case should be “put in a box”. It must be used and upgraded to the maximum every lucky day.