Do You Speak Music?

Exposure to language throughout our high school years becomes very important as we move onto college and/or employment. Not only do high schools use these years to perfect your native tongue, but to also familiarize you with other languages and the cultures that shape them. Such languages that are offered are Spanish, French, and Latin. However, there is one language in which that some high schools do not emphasize or even teach—music. Music does not fall under the category of “spoken” languages, but rather through a combination sounds, emotions, and physical feelings. Therefore, music can affect people drastically emotionally and physically. It could be said that music affects the lives of those who “speak” and listen to its sounds. Music has plenty of rules and exceptions, just as any language. There are a plethora of possibilities in which you can speak and listen to music. You can put words to sounds, you can use the sounds to communicate different moods, emotions, psychological states, and experiences. Music goes deeper than words and their specific definitions. Music is almost rather, a philosophy. I have found music to be comforting. I can not only use this to communicate to others how and what I feel, but also to understand more completely how and what others feel.