Muse..muse..music!

You go to a friend’s wedding, all set to groove to the latest bollywood numbers and rock it. Or, after a hectic week at work, you look forward to a concert on the Saturday evening by your favorite band. Or better still, your favorite old hindi film song plays in your car radio, and life seems beautiful, all over again.

It’s all over the place, at every juncture and every occasion. It captures your imagination, whether you’re set to ask that life changing question you have been rehearsing for so long to that special someone, or you seek the Almighty and want no one but you and Him to converse together through this divine form. It has been written about in the Indian Vedic texts, and the Bible, and the Arabic texts, at different points in different geographies and different times. And yet, there is no bigger unifying force than the power of this ultimate wonder. Welcome to the world of music.

And although we are ever-excited about updating the newest musical additions on our iPods, music goes much beyond in terms of genres, and expression, as an art form, maybe beyond our comprehensions. And it can become a much better enriching and enhancing experience, if it’s introduced to us in a better manner.

Technically, music is mainly made up of pitch and rhythm, including other components. Pitch is defined as one of the main auditory attributes of sound, the perceived frequency of sound. And rhythm, is any symmetrical movement, which here applies to a symmetry in sound. And although music has been written (and written about) since the prehistoric era by musicians and scholars all around the world in disparate different forms ranging from classical to jazz to rock to blues and country folk, it’s almost unbelievable to believe that the main foundation of music lays on just 12 musical notes (or pitches). And the various interpretations of these notes lead to the most incredible auditory, emotional, even mystical experiences to almost every single soul on earth.

Music is a form of expression, which can be cultural, religious, emotional, and even attitudinal and therapeutic. A branch of music, Music therapy, has been proven to improve the physical, emotional and psychological wellbeing. But music can be therapeutic is more than these ways. It when we realize that the basis of differences can be various, but just one cohesive force of music can pull everything together and heal all. So, let’s speak the language everyone understands, and spread the word of love through the medium…Lets speak Music.