2024-10-01 09:26:40
International Music Day, celebrated annually on 1 October since 1975, was established on the initiative of the International Music Council (IMC) of UNESCO two years earlier at the 15th General Assembly of the IMC in Lausanne.
As Day.Az reminds, one of the initiators of the establishment of International Music Day was composer Dmitry Shostakovich and chairman of the International Music Council Yehudi Menuhin.
The holiday is celebrated annually all over the world with large concert programs with the participation of the best artists and artistic groups. On this day, compositions included in the treasury of world culture are heard. Creative meetings with composers, performers, musicologists are also held, thematic exhibitions and educational events are organized, which contributes to the goal of disseminating music as an art in a variety of communities.
Music (from the Greek musike, literally “the art of muses”) is a type of art in which organized musical sounds serve as a means of embodying artistic images. Humanity has been familiar with music since ancient times. In the caves of Africa, rock paintings of long-vanished tribes have been preserved. The drawings depict people with musical instruments. And in 2000, Chinese archaeologists discovered a museum of musical instruments created two thousand years ago, during the Han Dynasty.
Music has enormous power; it influences a person’s perception and fills him with emotions. There are few people in the world who are indifferent to music. Many composers tried to express the state of their soul through it. For centuries and millennia, music has been an inseparable part of the cultural tradition, religious ritual and daily existence of every people.
And nowadays music has not lost its importance, but on the contrary, the need for it is increasing. The Internet and modern means of recording and playing music make it more accessible; new multimedia capabilities allow you to listen and watch musicians’ performances on more advanced media. All this helps to expand the knowledge of people (and especially the younger generation) about various cultural environments, layers, traditions where music is necessarily present. Therefore, International Music Day also implements the idea of rapprochement and friendship between peoples, mutual enrichment of cultures.