universal appeal of music
There are very few people who do not like some sort of music so what is it in us that it is appealing to? I can't think of any other form of art that has anywhere near the popularity that music has. Maybe music simulates some basic emotional stimulus or other, I really don't know.And why the universal appeal? Music expresses, more than any other art, the reality of the Will, it is still tragic and melancholy, the bottom of all life, but also a seductive incitement to life. Is a new form of expression of thought (and allows not only appreciate the poverty of modern thought, but also read the history, the philosophy and the development of the world). So, music speaks, not -always- with concepts but with sounds. This does not mean that it lacks meanings but these are spoken in another language, one that is not the reason. And so I think that its universal appeal is that you do not need instruction in the intellectual or philosophical world to hear what she is saying, to identify with the feeling (not yours or mine but the "universal" feeling expressed) and in the end, serves the same "purpose" of art
Even i like music from different languages.even if we can't understand anything it is still very pleasant to hear different types of songs in different languages.different songs give us different types of emotions.soft songs make us feel nice but I like songs which are full of rock and roll as it fills me with energy no matter of which language it may be.
I think that people listen to music for essentially the same reason people enjoy looking at a beautiful painting or drawing. Music is, in a sense, the mirror image of visual art. A work of visual art, such as a painting, is basically a set of lines and/or colors arranged in a particular, meaningful configuration in space. Music, on the other hand, is basically a set of tones and/or beats arranged in a particular, meaningful configuration in time. Anyone who has at least dabbled in performing music should know that music is obsessively concerned with time. At the beginning of a page of sheet music is the time signature, which regulates the number of beats per bar. Each note is given a certain relative time value, such as a whole note, half note, quarter note, dotted note, etc. The song is assigned a certain tempo (Italian for time), such as “moderato”, “allegro”, “adagio”, etc. Thus, I would say that whatever explanation one could give to the purpose of visual art, one could also apply to music. And just as visual art is the ideal of form in space, music is a kind of ideal of form in time.
Furthermore, if you’ll notice, when people talk they tend to vary the pitch of their voice from one word or syllable to the next. There is a certain melody, of sorts, to human speech. Why is that? Why don’t people just speak in monotone? My guess is that the melody of speech is a kind of “emotive counterpoint” to the literal progression of words. The melody modifies and contextualizes a given sentence, facilitating interpretation in a manner impossible with monotone. The melody tells us when to get excited or when to prepare for disappointment; it can tell us when the speaker should be believed at face value or it can betray an ulterior motive. It is a kind of monologue of its own that emerges from the literal script. It is my belief that music is, essentially, this emotive counterpoint extracted from speech and isolated in a pure, polished form. In essence, music is to the emotive counterpoint of speech what poetry is to the literal aspect of speech. Music is an ideal of emotional communication.
