What Music Means to Me
Wednesday, July 27, 2016 by Hamdani, Laurie | Reference
This is a question work pondering, worth asking the student, worth asking the teacher. For me, music is a universal language, one which we all speak even before the first fully formed words leave our lips. Like sports, one does not need to be able to perform music in order to enjoy it. It can be a uniquely personal experience or one collectively shared. It attaches to memory, evoking specific times, places, and events. Unlike any other entity I can think of - except perhaps someone we love with all our heart - it can make us feel a full range of emotions. Many studies also show that learning to read music and play an instrument makes us smarter due to the unique interplay of right-left brain activity.
Richard Rejino has been collecting essays on the topic ‘what music means to me’. and some of those reflections are also available in his beautiful book by the same name:
