It humanizes us by coloring our lives with feeling. ![]() Or perhaps the music instead affects us, and imbues us with such emotions. We listen, and we know that this sound is “happy.” We hear “open-minded” melodies, “angry” strings, “thoughtful” bass lines: We personify the sounds we hear in music. And it seems as though from nothing but literal thin air - the vibrations of particles traveling to our ears - these human feelings emerge, and we listeners are, more often than not, at a loss to explain what gives that music a particular emotion. So we partake in this inherently emotional experience of music together. ![]() The question, “What music do you listen to?” usually returns an eclectic range of responses unique to each person I’ve yet to hear someone respond to that question with a droll, “Oh, I don’t listen to music.” ![]() We’ve all heard music that makes us feel happy, excited, pensive or melancholy.
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