The original symphony orchestra started out as random musicians playing whatever instruments were available. Soon, the modern orchestra started popping up all over the world. Orchestras still have a big string section, with smaller sections for brasses, woodwinds, percussion, harps and keyboard instruments, just as they have been for two hundred years. The orchestra has similar instruments to band, with an added string section. Other instruments in different genres of music are now more electric, such as electric guitars, keyboards, and synthesizers.
The comparison between music and architecture reveals that the architectural design process has the same elements and components of the music process. The art of music consists of a composer, listener, and the musical work, while architecture consists of a designer, user, and the architectural work. If we recognize the literal meaning of architecture, we will find that the same emotion is in music. Work affects a person, and makes them feel a certain way. The success of the architectural works depends on many factors, the same as in music. Modern architectural work contains the same mixture of unity, variety, rhythm, and harmony as music. According to a mutual relation between music and architecture in design, “arches and colonnades will be transformed to music pieces, columns to drum hits or organs, transparency of glass curtain walls to the most pure voice, the spaces between forms to music pauses, and floors will be changed to music notes”. There have also been architectures specifically designed to look like musical instruments to prove to people there is a great relationship between architectural design and music.
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