Does music really have a link to something higher?

Answer 1

Music is known to have soothing influence. It is proved to have some healing influence. It is also proved to have efficiency enhancement power in certain circumstances, e.g. milking a cow.
Well all the above situations are more than just the pleasure it gives. Some believe it can link up to spirituality - I am not aware of any proved quality in this respect. Some believe it can bring forth rain in a drought condition etc. No, I have not come across any such proved case. But who knows? Just because we have no proof for something, it does not mean it can not be true.

Answer 2

Perhaps not higher, but maybe wider. Or just a different level of thinking. Various studies (you can look them up) show that people and animals and plants have varying responses to music. So it is probable that my reaction to music is on a different level than my reaction to peanut butter.

I enjoy some music, and feel much better about myself and the world when I hear it, but that does not happen with all kinds of music. And somewhere, someone enjoys every kind of music, or it would not exist. But a link to something higher? I'd like to think so, but logically, it just doesn't wash.

Answer 3

Our senses deal with frequencies. Our ears were meant to hear, but music isn't all about sound, it is also about feeling. And not just emotional feeling either, real physical frequencies that move, shake, and vibrate parts of our body. When you listen to music live with large speaker systems, you can feel the bass move you at a certain frequency and it feels good. Good music utilizes different frequencies of sound that are tangible and outside of our pain threshhold. The reason music seems to have a link to something higher is because it does. So does light, electricity, etc. All things that move in nature have certain frequencies we don't entirely understand. Once we completely understand how all frequencies interact, then we can understand better what music is completely.

Answer 4

If you accept that there had to be a creative power at work that planned all that has been, and is to come, then music, like all pleasures, must have come from "something higher" (that's "God" to me.) Most Composers seem to have written something of a religious nature, even the Beatles with their "My Dear Lord". Music seems to lift our hearts, and it certainly helps in Christian worship, eg "Songs of Praise" on BBC1.
Everything has a link to "something higher"; the beauty of creation is another example.

Answer 5

I am positive it does.
I read somewhere it is the language of the soul.
It is a certainly a universal language. In general, good music will sound good to most human beings and animals.

The moods that music brings is also some what universal.

The rythm, the tone, the melody. They all mix to bring about something meaningful that our sub-conscious minds and we react to them in somewhat similar ways.

Music can make you cry and it can make you laugh, it can make you dance and it can be make you very sad - the power of music is same as the power of words - but it is universal or at least more so.

EnJoY

Answer 6

Music creates a good support to reach higher.

Answer 7

No.

But it's good stuff anyway.
It probably does help to release our mind's focus from it's obsession with words and abstractions, and all the tensions connected with that, so that does open the door to other possibilities.
Unfortunately most folks tend to relate to it as just another object for enjoyment or consumption, so it has no real effects ,apart from relaxation and inspiration.
Also ,some people use it to conjure up emotions and strengthen the power of emotions over themselves, increasing their vulnerability to passing feelings, perhaps, although perhaps,ironically ,desensitising themselves to some more subtle things.

Anyway ,it can be lovely, rewarding, and relaxing, especially to play, and if one uses the space it creates to tune into the silence behind it, it can be a route to one's more complete nature.

Answer 8

Good music yes. Like all good art, I believe it comes from a divine source. Really beautiful classical music lifts you out of yourself. It sounds like the voices of angels. Listening to classical music is so moving that it usually brings me to tears. It's the same feeling I got when I stood on a mountaintop in Bavaria...like my heart was being lifted out of my chest, like glimpsing Heaven. So beautiful it hurts. Beethoven, Wagner...

Answer 9

Not all music does, just listen to Hawthorn Heights, Underoath, and everyother new age band thats out screaming. They've got nothing on Dylan.

Answer 10

In a song all the notes are lonked together and some notes are higher than others.