What Is Music…Exactly?

matt2525 (45)in #music • 9 years ago

Even though we are constantly exposed to music in our daily lives, we rarely stop to actually think about what it really is. After all, what exactly is music?

Fundamentally, music is a combination of sounds, and sound is vibration. Have you ever heard some Dj, musician or party animal say, "music is my life", well that`s probably why you can literally say that music is life. If you think what life really is; constant change of energy and vibration.. according to quantum physics that pretty much resembles music. One of the most succinct definitions of music comes from the Italian composer Ferruccio Busoni, who said that, “Music is sonorous air.”

It's extraordinary to think that a simple vibration unseen by the human eye can facilitate a deeply rich emotional experience, alter perception and consciousness, and induce ecstatic states of being.

Music is essential to most of our lives. Music is much more than mere entertainment. It has been a feature of every known human society—anthropologists and sociologists have yet to find a single culture throughout the course of human history that has not had music. In fact, many evolutionary psychologists today make the argument that music predated language. Primitive tribes and religious practices have used music to reach enlightened states for thousands of years, and Pythagoras used music to heal different psychological and physical ailments.

Currently, cutting-edge scientific research has shown the effect that music has on the brain, the individual, and society.