Curious facts about music (13 photos). Musical instruments

Music, one way or another, is an integral part of our lives. It surrounds us all the time - it sounds in transport, is part of movies, can be heard from behind the walls thanks to our neighbors. Even if you try to avoid it, it’s unlikely to succeed. And why, because the music is so diverse that one of the genres will surely attract your attention and become your favorite. Besides, there are so many more interesting facts about music, which will only increase interest in it.

1. It has long been proven that if you play the violin in the house, then all the spiders, as if on command, will begin to lick out of their hiding places. But this happens not because they are fans of classical music, but because the sound causes vibrations. This makes their web tremble, as if prey had fallen into it, which makes them move.

2. Among the interesting facts about rock music is the band Metallica. She was the first and only one to visit and hold full-fledged concerts on all seven continents of our planet, including the incredibly cold Antarctica, where there are only scientific centers with a maximum of a couple of thousand people.

3. Some types of music are useful, and some are strictly the opposite. Classical music has been proven to calm people down. It is also known that its presence helps to quickly recover after surgery or illness. About more high degree motivation for physical exercise With musical accompaniment Needless to say. But there are also sad statistics. American scientists noted that greatest number suicides, divorces and other bad things happen to those who listen to country music.

4. Once a company Warner Bros. made a very wise move that still brings her money. She secured the rights to the popular Happy Birthday tune and now receives about several million dollars into her account every year. Because every time you see that tune used in a movie, it means the creators paid for it.

5. We all know how crazy the lives of rock stars are. They create music, travel around the world with concerts, and the money they earn, as a rule, is immediately spent on various things that can give fleeting joy. However, statistics show very sad figures - on average, rockers live 25 years less than other people.

6. Surprisingly, in order to create music that will later be loved by millions, sometimes you don’t even need to know sheet music. Known fact that none of the four popular group Didn't know the Beatles at the very beginning musical notation.

7. Not less popular performer Ozzy Osbourne is considered, whose career peaked in the 80s of the last century. At that moment, at one of his concerts, a rock musician bit off his head bat. Immediately after, he was taken by ambulance to a local hospital with symptoms that resembled rabies.

8. The longest concert in human history is not over yet. It officially began in 2001 in Halberstadt, a small German town, and in this moment still lasts. Moreover, it will end in 2640, that is, its duration will be at least 639 years.

The life of absolutely every person is somehow connected with music and sounds. But even the most ardent music lovers and music lovers cannot know everything about their hobby. Despite the fact that we will not be able to collect all the interesting and educational facts about music, we tried our best to tell you about the most interesting facts related to music.

Musicians hear better than people who are not into music.

Sigmund Freud hated music. It got to the point that he didn’t even visit restaurants where the orchestra was playing. He even threw his sister's piano out of the house.

One day it happened that Caruso came to the bank without an identification document. Since the matter was urgent, the famous bank client had to sing an aria from Tosca to the cashier. After listening famous singer, the cashier agreed that his execution verified the identity of the recipient and issued the money. Afterwards, Caruso, telling this story, admitted that he had never tried so hard to sing.

Doctors advise: If a person experiences heart problems, then music for relaxation has a beneficial effect on his condition. By the way, listening to music after major operations helps to rehabilitate faster.

Nicholas the First disliked Glinka’s works so much that he sent offending soldiers not to the guardhouse, but to the opera “Ruslan and Lyudmila.”

Cows produce more milk when they listen to calm, slow music.

Hit band Deep Purple“Smoke on the water” is included in the Guinness Book of Records; this song has been performed by a huge number of rock musicians.

The most expensive guitar in the world was Fender Stratocaster, signed by 19 famous guitarists and sold at a charity auction for $2.8 million.

The word “music” comes from ancient Greek word“Muses”, who according to mythology are the daughters of the god Zeus, goddesses who patronize the sciences and arts. There are nine of them. True, among them there was not a single one who was specifically involved in the art of sounds. Some believe that it was the muse of dance, Terpsichore, who, as if on duty, had to patronize the music that accompanies the dances.

Creators famous group When choosing a guitarist, Offspring were not guided by musical interests. They just wanted to buy alcohol freely. The fact is that at the time of the creation of the group, Holland and Crissell were still in school and, accordingly, were minors. The future guitarist - Wasserman - could officially buy alcohol.

Australian scientists have noticed that rock stars die young. Indeed, they usually die 25 years earlier than the average person.

Whistling is considered “the music of the devil” in Islamic countries.

The largest crowd was recorded at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro. It numbered about 3.5 million people who gathered here to celebrate the New Year 1994, led by Rod Stewart.

Queen guitarist Brian May I always used a sixpence piece instead of a pick. According to the musician, the pick is too flexible, and another advantage of this coin is its jagged edges, which helps to extract a special grinding sound from the strings. And although the official issue of sixpence was discontinued in 1970, the royal mint released another series of them specifically for May's solo tour in 1993.

The craftsmen who make guitars are called luthiers. Apparently the name comes from the lute, which is considered the predecessor of the guitar.

None of the members of the Beatles knew musical notation.

How more people listens to music, the better his mental abilities and memory become.

Beethoven began composing music only after he lowered his head into a large basin, which was filled with... ice water. This strange habit became so firmly attached to the composer that, no matter how much he wanted, he could not leave it for the rest of his life.

Hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan released a double album “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” with only one copy. The disc was sold at auction for several million dollars to entrepreneur Martin Shkreli, and it was officially recognized as the most expensive album in history. Under the terms of the deal, the buyer will not be able to commercially benefit from the acquisition until 2103, but has the right to distribute the tracks for free or arrange a listening session.

The first electric guitar with a wooden body was made independently by Leo Fender and musician Les Paul in the 50s of the 20th century.

The single “White Christmas” is considered the bestseller of all time in the field of music. In 1942, it sold more than 50 million copies.

Chaliapin and Gorky almost at the same time auditioned for the choir. Gorky was taken, Chaliapin was not.

Warner Brothers earns approximately $2,000,000 annually for the copyright to the song "Happy Birthday."

Madonna's touring team has a special group whose task is to prevent the theft of the singer's DNA. After Madonna leaves the dressing room, these workers carefully clean all hair, pieces of skin and droplets of her saliva, and only then allow other people to enter the room.

Loud music in a car is not only a threat to traffic safety, but also a potential health hazard. Therefore, in each area of New York there is a certain noise limit, for exceeding which a fine is imposed.

Every year in Finland there is a competition for masters of playing the air guitar. People come on stage and pretend to play an invisible guitar.

Leonardo da Vinci played the lyre masterfully. When Leonardo's case was heard in the Milan court, he appeared there precisely as a musician, and not as an artist or inventor.

Solresol is an international artificial language based on the names of the seven notes of the diatonic scale. It was invented by the Frenchman Jean Francois Sudre in 1817. It took Jean's followers forty years to design the grammar, vocabulary and theory.

If you play a violin in a room where spiders live, the insects immediately crawl out of their shelters. The sound causes the threads of the web to vibrate, and for spiders this is a signal about prey, for which they immediately crawl out.

Julio Iglesias was a promising football player, but he got into a car accident. Three years of paralysis (while his arms worked) brought Julio to the guitar. Thanks to her, Iglesias became a famous musician.

The most popular wedding music in the USA is Whitney Houston's song “I will always love you”. By a strange coincidence, it is also the most popular funeral music in the UK.

The lowest sung note is 0.393 Hz, according to the Guinness Book of Records. It was reproduced by Roger Menis in 2010. The paradox is that the human ear is unable to hear anything below 18 Hz.

Leo Fender, the inventor of the Telecaster and Stratocaster electric guitars, did not know how to play the guitar at all.

After a sensational performance in Antarctica, Metallica was included in the Guinness Book of Records as the first and only group to perform on all seven continents of the Earth in a year.

In the Middle Ages, rats were taken out of cities with a pipe. There was even a special profession: pied piper. By the way, when recently a rock concert took place in an old English castle, the rats from the castle also completely disappeared.

In 1792, at the premiere of the opera “The Secret Marriage” by composer Cimarosa, the audience clapped so loudly that the artists were forced to perform an encore... the entire opera.

The first phonogram appeared at the end of the 19th century: one Italian composer he took a phonograph with him to performances, on which the piano part of his works was recorded.

Bartolomeo Cristofori di Francesco is an Italian harpsichord maker who is generally considered to be the inventor of the piano.

Mozart began to show his phenomenal musical abilities even at the age of three, when he sat down at the harpsichord and selected various harmonies, in addition, he could repeat on the harpsichord certain passages from different plays which I heard then.

In the Middle Ages, the guitar had only 4 strings. It was played using a tortoiseshell plate.

Interesting Facts about famous songs of the past that you may not have known.

1. Queen “The Show Must Go On”

During the recording of this song in 1990, Freddie Mercury was already so ill that he could barely move. Brian May recorded the vocal part for the sample, singing it in falsetto because the key of the song was too high for his voice. “Fred, I don’t know if you can even sing it,” he told Mercury. He replied: “I can fucking do it, darling” (I "ll f...ing do it, darling), drank vodka, went and sang it in one take.

2. Iron Maiden "Two Minutes To Midnight"

"Two Minutes to Midnight" is a reference to Doomsday Clock, a project of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists started in 1947 by the creators of the first atomic bomb. The journal is published at the University of Chicago. From time to time they publish on the cover an image of a clock whose hands point to midnight without a few minutes. The less time is left until midnight, the higher (according to the authors, including invited experts and as many as 18 Nobel laureates) the likelihood of a global nuclear war.

Now the “clock” shows five minutes to five minutes (the value was set in 2007).
The Doomsday Clock has hit two minutes to midnight only once, and this was the most dangerous moment in its history: in 1953 Soviet Union and the USA tested their thermonuclear bombs.

This is what the song is about. On the cover of the single, with the band's eternal mascot Eddie sitting against the backdrop of an atomic mushroom, you can also see the Soviet flag.

3. The Doors"Light My Fire"

When the Doors were invited to famous show Ed Sullivan, the organizers asked them to replace the line “Girl, we couldn't get much higher” with a more decent one. Morrison promised, but sang it anyway.

After the performance, he told Sullivan that he was very nervous and forgot about the promise. However, the group was no longer invited to this show.

4. Led Zeppelin “Stairway to Heaven”

On January 23, 1991, radio station KLSK FM in Albuquerque, New Mexico changed its format to classic rock. DJ John Sebastian decided to mark the occasion by playing "Stairway to Heaven" for 24 hours. It was heard more than 200 times, causing hundreds of angry calls and letters.

The police came twice: once because a listener thought the DJ was having a heart attack, and the second time (this was right after the Gulf War) because they thought the radio station had been taken over by terrorists sent by Led Zeppelin fan Saddam Hussein. The strangest thing is that many people did not change to another station, determined to find out when it would end.

5. Rolling Stones"Satisfaction"

On June 5, 1965, the Stones played to three thousand people at a stadium in Clearwater, Florida. This was the band's third American tour. According to the newspaper St. Petersburg Times, published the next day, 200 young fans got into a fight with police officers guarding the concert. By that time, the group had only played four songs.

That night, Keith Richards woke up with a guitar riff in his head and the line “Can't get no satisfaction.” He recorded it on a portable tape recorder and went to bed. That same week, he brought the recording to the studio. On the tape there was a guitar riff, followed by followed by the sound of snoring.

6. Pink Floyd"Another Brick In The Wall"

The school choir for the song was found in the school closest to the studio (in the London area of Islington). 23 children aged from 13 to 15 sang. The singing was overdubbed twelve times, creating the feeling of a much larger choir.

After the release of the record, a scandal broke out. Because, firstly, the children were not paid. Secondly, the theme song did not please the school management at all.

7. Deep Purple “Smoke on The Water”

The song describes real events: The group was going to record in a casino in Montreux (Switzerland), which was located on the shores of Lake Geneva. After Frank Zappa's concert, someone accidentally set the place on fire while playing with a flare gun. As a result, the premises burned down and the group had to look for a new recording space.

The lyrics of the song describe the fire and the subsequent torment with recording the disc: the group moved to the premises of the Pavilion Theater, but the sound of the rehearsals disturbed the surrounding residents. The recording was completed only in the premises of the empty and unheated Grand Hotel.

One day Roger Glover (bassist for Deep People) woke up saying “smoke on the water” out loud, apparently dreaming about a recent fire and a picture of smoke billowing over Lake Geneva. The phrase was included in the chorus of the song and became its title.

8.The Shocking Blue"Venus"

At the time of the performance of this song, the lead singer of the group, Mariska Veres, did not know in English: she memorized the lyrics of the song as a set of sounds and performed it that way, hence “shisgara” (she's got it).

Literally the second word is pronounced incorrectly by the soloist: she sings godness instead of goddess. The word has become part of everyday English slang. The Urban Dictionary points to the described origin of the word and explains the meaning of the word godness as “a very beautiful, impeccable girl.”

9. AC/DC “Back in Black”

Gibson Guitar Corporation, the same manufacturer legendary guitars Gibson published a list of the ten best guitar riffs of the 80s on its website in 2010. The first place in it is occupied by the riff from Back in Black.

10. John Lennon "Imagine"

Since 2006, Imagine has been performing in last minutes of the passing “old” year in Times Square in New York.

Music is not only inspiring works of amazing beauty and impact, but also a variety of genres, instruments and playing techniques. There are many interesting facts associated with music. You will now learn about some of them.

Fact 1. “Music both heals and cripples”

Various musical rhythms surround us from birth. But at the same time, we rarely think about the influence of music on the human body. Meanwhile, various melodies serve as a kind of tuning fork for the body, capable of setting it up for self-healing.

The question of the influence of music on the human body has been relevant since ancient times. Even then it was known that with the help of music you can induce joy, relieve pain and even cure serious illnesses. So, in Ancient Egypt choral singing treated insomnia and relieved pain.

Doctors ancient China and even prescribed musical melodies as a prescription, believing that music could cure any disease. The great mathematician and scientist Pythagoras proposed using music against anger, rage, delusions and passivity of the soul, and also using it to develop the intellect.

His follower Plato believed that music restores the harmony of all processes in the body and throughout the Universe. Avicenna very effectively used music in the treatment of mentally ill people. And in Rus', the melody of bells was used to treat headaches, joint diseases, and remove damage and the evil eye. Modern scientists have explained this by the fact that bell ringing has ultrasonic and resonant radiation, which can instantly destroy most viruses and pathogens of dangerous diseases.

Determined that:

Mozart's music and ethnic melodies help relieve stress and control emotions;
lively and bright melodies improve coordination of movements, mobility and productivity, transferring the energy of their movement to people;
classical music can eliminate muscle tension, reduce nervousness and improve metabolism;
in contrast to the healing effect of classical music is the destructive property of country music. Statisticians have calculated that in America, the largest percentage of personal disasters, suicides and divorces occur among those who are fans of country music.
composition “Helter Skelter” by the world famous group “ The Beatles» may cause listeners to experience abdominal or chest pain. And due to the fact that the rhythm of this melody is almost similar to the rhythm of the human brain, the coincidence of their frequencies can cause madness in a person.

The influence of music on the human body is enormous. But magical power music gains only when a person purposefully resorts to it in order to improve his psycho-emotional state. But the so-called background music can only cause harm to the body, since it is perceived as noise.

Fact 2 “A note is a linguistic unit”

For the last three hundred years, innovative philologists have been tormented by the idea of creating an artificial language. About two hundred projects are known, but almost all of them are currently forgotten due to their incorrectness, complexity, etc.

Interesting facts about music, however, included one project - the musical language “Sol-re-sol”. This language system was developed by Jean Francois Sudre, a Frenchman by birth. Rules musical language were published in 1817, it took Jean's followers forty years to design the grammar, dictionary and theory.

The roots of the words, of course, were the seven notes known to all of us. New words were formed from them, for example:

si=yes; before=no; re=i(union);
mi=or;
fa=he;
re+do=my.

Of course, such a speech could be performed by a musician, but the language itself turned out to be more difficult than the most complex languages in the world. Nevertheless, it is known that in 1868, the first (and, accordingly, the last) works in which musical language was used, were even published in Paris.

Fact 3 “Is water a source of inspiration?”

Interesting facts about music are also associated with the classics. Beethoven, for example, began composing music only after he lowered his head into a large basin, which was filled with... ice water. This strange habit became so firmly attached to the composer that, no matter how much he wanted, he could not leave it for the rest of his life.

Fact 4 “Do spiders listen to music?”

If you play a violin in a room where spiders live, the insects immediately crawl out of their shelters. But don't think they're connoisseurs wonderful music. The fact is that the sound causes the threads of the web to vibrate, and for spiders this is a signal about prey, for which they immediately crawl out.

Fact 5 “Identity card”

One day it happened that the great Caruso came to the bank without a document proving his identity. In those days there was no television or Internet, and few could know celebrities by sight. Since the matter was urgent, the famous bank client had to sing an aria from Tosca to the cashier. After listening to the famous singer, the cashier agreed that his performance verified the identity of the recipient and handed over the money. Afterwards, Caruso, telling this story, admitted that he had never tried so hard to sing.

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Music is something extraordinary, magical, bewitching. We sometimes think it is very simple, but in fact music is one of the most complex and delightful things in the universe. It is built on mathematical principles, it obeys the laws of physics, it affects the human brain, healing it or destroying it. Music is a separate world into which each of us is immersed every day. This world is amazing and interesting. There's a lot to do with him incredible facts, which will be discussed further.

Facts from the world of classical music

The world composer Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninov had a unique feature - the greatest coverage of the keys. So, he could cover 12 white keys at once, and with his left hand he could absolutely freely play the “do-e/flat-g-do-g” chord. His hands were so beautiful that the paparazzi wrote the following caption under Rachmaninov’s photo in their article: “Hands that are worth a million!”
Lullabies have a beneficial effect on a child: they calm, create a comfortable emotional background, and bring balance.
Compositions by Vivaldi, Beethoven (2nd movement of the 6th symphony), Brahms (“Lullaby”), Schubert (“Ave Maria”), Debussy (“Light of the Moon”) help get rid of fear and excessive anxiety and evoke a feeling of security.
Correctly selected classical works can reduce irritability, nervous agitation and aggressiveness. Therefore, classics are often used in music therapy.
Mozart's music helps reduce the frequency of epileptic seizures in patients.
Mozart's works improve the functionality of the human brain. Researchers have called this ability of the composer's works the "Mozart Effect."
Mozart's unique musical abilities began to emerge when he was only 3 years old. Then the legendary composer, playing the harpsichord, composed various harmonies and played melodies from plays he had heard earlier.
Beethoven created music while deaf. However, his hearing gradually disappeared over several years. Lack of hearing did not cause Beethoven to give up his favorite activity.
Bach after unsuccessful operation After cataract removal, he became completely blind, but this did not stop him from continuing to create extraordinary musical compositions.
Antonio Vivaldi might not have become a great composer. IN adolescence(at the age of 15) he was ordained a priest. But he was so passionate about music that he was never able to become a full-fledged clergyman. They say that during the service, Vivaldi often ran into the sacristy in order to write down the melodies that came to his mind.
Beethoven, before starting to compose compositions, immersed his head in a basin with not just cold, but ice water.
Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian pianist, lost his life in the First World War right hand. However, this did not stop him from resuming his concert career. He learned to play music with his left hand so deftly that he achieved exceptional skill. At the same time, he played compositions that were difficult even for musicians with two hands.
Plants love classical music– flowers grow faster if they are regularly given classics. But heavy music (rock, metal, rap) causes plants to die.
If cows are regularly played soothing classical music, their milk yield will increase significantly.
Musicians' hearing is much better developed than people without musical education.

Worldwide famous song“Happy Birthday to You” is still under copyright protection. It can be performed with family or friends, but commercial performance (for example, in a movie, a musical greeting card) is prohibited, unless, of course, a royalty has been paid to the company that owns the rights to it.
Music improves a person's endurance if listened to while exercising.
Not a single participant of the legendary music group The Beatles didn't know how to read music.
The heartbeat adjusts to the rhythm of the music being listened to.
The famous inventor of the Telecaster and the Stratocaster guitars, Leo Fender, did not know how to play these instruments at all.
In 2001, the world's longest organ concert began in Halberstadt (Germany), which is scheduled to end in 2640.
The world-famous idol of millions Elvis Presley for his musical career didn't write a single song.
Researchers have proven that too loud music provokes the desire to drink alcohol.
The musicians from the band Metallica are so tough that they were not afraid to play a concert in Antarctica. Thus, this group became the only one that played on all 7 continents of our planet.
The fastest rapper can read 23 syllables per second. However, the guy never got into the Book of Records, because for this he needs to rap in English.
In Islamic countries, whistling is considered “the music of the devil.”
The lowest note of 0.393 Hz was sung by Roger Menis in 2010 and was included in the Guinness Book of Records. But the paradox is that a person is not able to hear sounds below 18 Hz.
Surprisingly, in the Middle Ages, rats were lured out of urban settlements by playing the pipe. There was even such a profession - piper-pied catcher.
Music can improve memory, attention, develop Creative skills person.
There are music roads in Japan. These are sections of the route with grooves of different depths located at a distance from each other. Driving at a certain speed along this section, the vibration from the wheels falling into the grooves moves into the cabin, where it turns into a melody.