Question

is music a universal or cultural language?

Answer 1

--MUSIC ​​​ is a universal language otherwise we can say that the musicians are considering like that.The musicians are also saying that with the music we can communicate across different cultures and different language boundaries.And as a music listener we can support this statement because for enjoying a music we don't need to study the language in which the music is composed.

-- we can say that all human culture is having music, just as each has language, so we can confirm that the music is the universal characteristic of the human experience.And also we can say that from culture to culture both the language system and music system varies.

-- Many studies proved that the people who are listening the music of different languages are able to understand the emotions which is conveyed in the music or even the people are able to detect the happiness and sadness of the music, that means if the music is melodious then it is the expression of sadness and if it is fast tempo music then It conveys happiness.Anyway we can say that we all are having a inborn or natural music sense.

-- For example, just listen to a conversation in the language the we cannot understand.It is sure that you cannot understand  the content but it is sure that you can understand the emotions of the characters involved in that conversation, like happy,sad,upset,angry etc..why we are understanding this emotions because we know what it sounds like in our own language.Like that when hearing a piece of music, even from our or other culture we can understand the emotions involved in that music.So now it is clearly proven that the music is a universal system for communicating emotions.

-- We use language for the communication purpose and in many theories the biologists has said about the 'language of bees' ,' language of flowers ' etc.. and also about the body language. The body language means the posture ,movement and facial expressions that we use to convey our emotions.And we can say that language is a communication system containing many meaningful symbols and set of rules for combining those symbols to a larger meaningful sentence.

-- Like the language, music is also having rules for ordering the elements, like chords, notes and intervals into the complex structures. Upto this moment there is no meaning for these elements but they conveys emotional meaning.

-- But we can say that the music is not a universal language in the sense that you use to express any thought to any person on the planet.But the music have the ability to refresh our mind and it also helps us to take to the wonderful past memories.And in that sense we can say that music is absolutely a universal language.

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