Essay On Art Of Music

I think I could not live without music. Music is an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and

emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.

Who hasn’t ever felt a song pulling at their heartstrings? Whether it is the feeling of euphoria

in a club, or a lonely cry to a heartbreaking ballad, music can cut us to the core, expressing

emotions more eloquently than words ever can. Because if anything is evident, it is that music

is capable of unleashing a cascade of emotions with more effectiveness than other types of art.

“We are innately musical creatures from the depths of our nature” – said Stefan Koelsch who is

a neuroscientist and professor of psychology from Freie Universität in Berlin. Even Charles

Darwin, was stumped

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humanity has not been losing time at all.

Fortunately, there are alternative theories. One has proposed that music emerged as

an early form of communication. Certain motifs in music may, in fact, carry some of the

signatures of the emotional calls made by our ancestors; upwardly rising, staccato sounds tend

to put us on edge, while long descending tones seems to have a calming effect, to give just two

examples. Such patterns of sound seem to carry a universal meaning shared by adults of

different cultures, young children, and even other animals. So perhaps music built on

associations from ancient animal calls, helping us to express our feelings before we had words.

As a form of “protolanguage”, it could have even paved the way for speech. As you can see

music could be the first way in which people started to talk.

What is more, music may have helped gel human societies as we began to live in

bigger and bigger groups. Dancing and singing together, seems to make groups of people