12-28-2009, 02:20 PM
I am starting a debate.... Is music universal?
Let's speculate for just a moment, that there are living conscious beings on planets other than our own. Do they have music? I would hope so. I really feel that music is a universal language. Musical notes, beats, rhythms, etc elicit emotional responses, without the need of words. Listen to any of the great masters of composition and tell me there is no emotion whatsoever there. I realize that I am lending the quality of emotion based on a human response, but would it be any different for any other creature. Even on earth, animals and plants respond to music, where otherwise, we are at a lack in the ability to communicate. I don't know the specific details of those responses though, but they are there. I am also aware of the connections between music and mathematics as well. In certain instances listening to a formulation of mathematical equations produced astounding music. Music also has a translation into mathematics as well. All this and we haven't even scratched the surface. What about harmonics, and wave forms?
So what do you say?
Lend some opinions or some further insight, if you don't mind.
Goodnight for now.
Let's speculate for just a moment, that there are living conscious beings on planets other than our own. Do they have music? I would hope so. I really feel that music is a universal language. Musical notes, beats, rhythms, etc elicit emotional responses, without the need of words. Listen to any of the great masters of composition and tell me there is no emotion whatsoever there. I realize that I am lending the quality of emotion based on a human response, but would it be any different for any other creature. Even on earth, animals and plants respond to music, where otherwise, we are at a lack in the ability to communicate. I don't know the specific details of those responses though, but they are there. I am also aware of the connections between music and mathematics as well. In certain instances listening to a formulation of mathematical equations produced astounding music. Music also has a translation into mathematics as well. All this and we haven't even scratched the surface. What about harmonics, and wave forms?
So what do you say?
Lend some opinions or some further insight, if you don't mind.
Goodnight for now.