Why do we listen to it?
Music is simply organized, structured vibrations. Do we gain pleasure from it? Or perhaps we are all too ADD that we need music to distract a portion of our mind so that we can concentrate on what little remains, and focus with it?
Why do we derive pleasure from listening to music? Why is it soothing at times, energizing at others, and inspiring at the best of times?
Perhaps it regulates electrical impulses in the mind that respond to the beat of the music? What then of pieces that throw the beat off? Maybe the irregularity, and the imbalance in such music causes us to twist and turn--to dance, in other words. Of course, throwing the beat isn't technically irregularity and imbalance; it's simply doubling the speed of the beat.
Of course, if it was all about beats, melody and harmony would be irrelevant, and we know that isn't the case. In some music, anyways.
What is the power in harmony? How the selection of certain notes causes overtones to be constructively strengthened in various patterns, causing us delight? Why do certain melodies have that addictive property in which we can't get them out of our heads?
I'd love to study the Physics of music.
"When you catch a glimpse of the goodness of God, you will have a tongue of wisdom. You will have words to speak in season to those that are weary. You may never have learned the different languages of this earth, but God will teach you the language of Heaven." (Ellen White)
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