Was music an offshoot of language? Or language that of music? It's always been intriguing to me, how the two seem adjacent and attached to each other in some weird way. Would you be able to imagine your life without music? There are some places in the world that condemn music, but ordinary people still practice it. What are your thoughts, would we have gotten far with, or without it? A lot of older people tend too, of course, dislike musicians. Could you guys imagine yourself without music?
Music is a language. Learning to read music activates the same parts of your brain as learning a new language. I would consider it a language of music, using your words. I listen to music every day and probably would have went crazy without it. Music has the spiritual power to draw out your emotions, inspire creativity, hone your focus, unify you with others. There is something transcendental about it. Luv moosic.
>>12 How'd you start out with learning music? I wanted to try to read sheet music too, just never got around to it.
>>13 I learned in my highschool choir class, although I don't entirely remember nowadays. I'm sure there are tons of resources online, but I don't know of any off the top of my head to recommend you. You'll have to go search them out yourself.
I think music and language are completely different things. The purpose of a language is to transfer information, the purpose of music is to express your emotions. I don't completely disagree with what the other anon is saying, I just think he's talking about a specific subset of music, the one with rules, as defined by music theory. But I don't think music should have rules, art doesn't have rules. Music is just noise, you can do whatever you want. Here, have some noise
>>28 Has the golden ratio ever been applied to music?
>>28 Art doesn't have rules and because of this contemporary art has become worthless. The idea of art not having rules is romantic but in reality it should still have standards.