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We cannot all speak the same tongue, but we can understand the emotions a song is telling us.
Cognitive musicology investigates topics such as the parallels between language and music in the brain. Research often includes biologically inspired models of computation, such as neural networks and evolutionary programs. [116] This field seeks to model how musical knowledge is represented, stored, perceived, performed, and generated.
"But that music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by the few, and that it alone among all language unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable—these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge."
Philosophy of music is the study of "fundamental questions about the nature and value of music and our experience of it". [1] The philosophical study of music has many connections with philosophical questions in metaphysics and aesthetics.
Harwood questions whether a "cross-cultural musical universal" may be found in the music or in the making of music, including performance, hearing, conception, and education. [ 24 ] One aspect that is important to bear in mind when examining multi-cultural associations is that an English-language word (i.e. the word "music"), not a universal ...
While some languages in West Africa have no term for music, some West African languages accept the general concepts of music.([11]) Musiqi is the Persian word for the science and art of music, muzik being the sound and performance of music,([12]) though some things European-influenced listeners would include, such as Quran chanting, are excluded.
In response to McAllester's Universal Perspectives on Music, Klaus P. Wachsmann counters that even a near universal is hard to come by because there are many variables when considering a very subjective topic like music and music should not be removed from culture as a singular variable. There is a universal understanding that music is not the ...
However, English is not the only language used in major international organizations, because many countries do not recognize English as a universal language. For instance, the United Nations use six languages — Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.