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Originally Posted by pbradley
I would offer my predictably philosophical arrogance and suggest that conscious beings (humans but let's not be so anthropic) are burdened by a great deal of ineffable meaning. As such, what may seem as simple and dumb 'feelings' as instantiated in language are actually far too complex for language to adequately express. Music, then, is a kind of lever to access at least a greater portion of this ineffable subjectivity.
I would hesitate that this is so comparable with birds and animals, though, as I don't know what their world is like.
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genius! that is exactly what I was thinking about with this thread..
music allows humans to communicate and express deep feelings that are too complex to express in thoughts/language..
for example, in the Eastern tradition, prayer is strictly sung as it allows the mind to be free to feel the transcendental experience of worship, through the heart rather than through the logic of the thinking mind..
further, we can all agree that listening to music, from Bach to Sonic Youth are vehicles feelings which we have no language to express..
My idea is that humans have a transcendental soul which is beyond the physical world, and we use music as the language of this soul, which is beyond the comprehension of the logic of the thinking mind or the percpetion of the physical senses, it is a spiritual or metaphysical experience altogether..