When one thinks of language one seems to forget that language itself is one of the oldest human inventions due to its use from ancient times. We use language simultaneously from a very young age that we got used to it as a habit. Not as means of communicating or conveying a message to another party. Another form of communication and message delivery is art. Everything that informs us about ancient cultures is in the form of art whether through scriptures, drawings or writings. When words failed us as a universal language, Art was the link between ancient civilizations and modern tim.es. When both words and some forms of art failed as a means of universal communication another form of Virtuosity prevailed in conveying a message to a assorted
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I believe our emotions act as the means of translating music and every human on this planet feels the same emotions, based on Robert Plutchik’s theory there are eight basic emotions. Emotions act as receptors of the music language, for example; Music emotion is embedded in chords; when you hear a major chord one would associate it with happiness contrary to listening to a minor cord which gives a negative impression. Parallels could be drawn here from my story; I believe that my emotions mislead me into relating Egyptian to Latin beats mainly for the state they put you in, It is very hard to listen to either style and not want to shake your body. When I first heard Italian Opera while attending one of the VCU concerts it sounded very holy and divine to me, but I realized that every language within the right context conveys a certain emotion to me. Music also acts as a bridge between cultures and languages in the performers and the listeners. Performers for instance like Santana Challenge the concept traditions; the band includes people from different cultural and musical backgrounds. Those differences influenced the band into making their own style musical style. Here music acted as a bridge between those different cultures
I believe our emotions act as the means of translating music and every human on this planet feels the same emotions, based on Robert Plutchik’s theory there are eight basic emotions. Emotions act as receptors of the music language, for example; Music emotion is embedded in chords; when you hear a major chord one would associate it with happiness contrary to listening to a minor cord which gives a negative impression. Parallels could be drawn here from my story; I believe that my emotions mislead me into relating Egyptian to Latin beats mainly for the state they put you in, It is very hard to listen to either style and not want to shake your body. When I first heard Italian Opera while attending one of the VCU concerts it sounded very holy and divine to me, but I realized that every language within the right context conveys a certain emotion to me. Music also acts as a bridge between cultures and languages in the performers and the listeners. Performers for instance like Santana Challenge the concept traditions; the band includes people from different cultural and musical backgrounds. Those differences influenced the band into making their own style musical style. Here music acted as a bridge between those different cultures