Great posts.
The questions that arise are better than the answers.
Music strikes people differently and to different degrees. Why? And then there are the words.
I guess music is all just energy waves through a medium of some sort. (Most of the time it's our atmosphere of course.)
Then again I can sing a song in my head. How is that possible?
Isn't music just what we interpret it as?
I interpret most of today's modern country music as something that is most unpleasant and often offensive. That's through my own filter or prism. I interpret The Beatles as pleasing, interesting, innovative, adventurous, etc.
Funny thing is music.
This is from a Nat'l Geo article.
“Music,” said Hoy, “is strictly an anthropological concept.” Humans find beauty in certain sounds and dub them music,” he said.
“A whole generation of ’60s hippies altered their minds listening to whale songs, ” said Hoy. “To human ears, they’re gorgeous.”
But do animals purposefully create these aesthetically pleasing sounds?