What is Music?

2008-01-02

What is music?..

O.k people,

that is my question, and I'm not looking for an answer, but feel free to post.

Iv looked at many studies into what exactly music is?, and well, its turned up more questions than answers?..But i think thats a good thing.

Is music something that we are innately born with? Is it an ability that we have b4 we leave the womb?..or even before then? Now i know that music is, 'in our reality' sound that has been directed and harmonised and tuned etc. But what about that ability?..iv known people that 'seem' to have been born with the ability to pick up any instrument (including the voice) and play it, even with no prior training what so ever?.

I know people to, as I'm sure a lot of you do, that can pretty much put there voice to any genre of music completely....

Any of you whom appreciate Indian music will undoubtedly know of Mohamed Rafi. One example of an artist who could sing any Indian song, any genre, and pretty much any language/Indian dialect.

Another would be El Cameron De La Isla, the Spanish flamenco singer who could sing it all, and even gave birth to a new flamenco.

There are so many, from all over the world.

My youngest brother has an innate ability with mathematics?..His whole world and understanding is shaped and understood through numbers. Was he born like that?. Well, i know that in my family this ability is present generationaly, so does that mean that i have the mathematic gene in my family?.

Just as, Jimi Hendrix, or every member of the Beatles etc, etc, for instance, did they have the 'music gene' in there's?.

Now i know what the bright ones out of all of you are thinking, maths and music are intricately linked. And you'd be very accurate about that too.

Music?

In this Universe that we inhabit, sound and light are constantly surrounding us, some with wisdom have likened light and sound, to that of 'God' itself. Constantly around and present. Light and sound are frequencies, that shape our realities, or our perceptions and the world and universe as we understand it.

Our eyes can only see what our brains have been conditioned to accept, so what else are our eyes seeing that our brains haven't been 'yet' taught to accept. There are many many different 'things' and i couldn't tell you what they are, because i really don't know what they are. But there are many theories that try to explain this, and have been theorised, talked about and debated since the dawn of Humanity.

So Music,

Is a song something that is 'divinely' inspired?. Or is it something that we learn socially?..

Or could it be a mixture of the two?..ie: divinely inspired, but translated and materialised through our experiences.

Who could say,

Is it something learned socially as we grow and connect with the world around us.

I tend to accept that, in the way of expressing ones self in the current world, but i also accept that the whole idea of 'music' is something that is beyond explanation, and that is completely limitless and infinite, but isn't that god?..or our understanding of it?.

What do you think?.

SOUL.

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