Music

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"Music is what feelings sound like."

Being a musician myself, this particular quote spoke to me about something I've been trying to word for my entire life.  Have you ever sat down and listened to a song, and you just knew that it was everything you were feeling put into sound and words?

It doesn't even always have to be words, sometimes the song just portrays so many emotions in such a short amount of time that it's almost absurd.  I listen to a great variety of music and I have sung and played to the tune of different genres as well.  Being a first soprano, a clarinet player, and a handbell musician, music isn't exactly something foreign to me.

"Music is what feelings sound like." As I said before, sometimes just one song can portray 4 different emotions in such a short amount of time; it's a beautiful thing.  For example, there is this one song from the movie The New World and when you listen to it, you can just feel the emotions.  You can hear the transition from sadness, to deep sorrow, and finally a build towards a better life that ends on a hopeful note.

Another song that many of you reading this in class may recognize is the piano theme song from the movie Casper.  The song is so sad, but it's so beautiful.  I wish I could portray and word emotions half as well as a song can do sometimes.  There are those songs that make you so happy, then there are songs that make you feel empowered (some people feel empowered by Beyonce's  Single Ladies), and then there are others that can make you cry your eyes out.

Music means something different to everyone.  We've seen it used rhetorically in motion pictures to add to the emotional affects of a specific scene in a movie, whether it should be sad, happy, or epic.  Sometimes, music is the only way you can say what you're truly thinking and feeling.

Music is a beautiful thing.  I wish that music notes could be read like English, with words that portray feeling, because it is a language all its own.  To whoever created music in the first place, thank you.  You've done us all a great service that will last throughout the rest of time.