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25/08/08
How is music universal? What aspects of music are universal? This is never qualified when someone says music is universal. Music is a man made structure and any sound outside this structure is not music. A bird singing can interpreted as musical but it is not music, when someone like Messian uses bird song in his music it then becomes music.
Music cannot be intellectually nor emotionally universal. However, where music is universal is that it can evoke a ‘varied’ emotional response with or without an intellectual understanding. Animals and humans have evolved to respond to sound in some way and this I feel is the aspect that composers innately understand.
2/6/08
For the moment I hold a belief that musics meaning exists on a continuum between referentialism and absolutism. My position is absolutist, I feel that music is about form and structure and that form through time has the power to evoke a variety of meanings. For me the power of music is a random and abstract process (but not always) between listener and musical event.
24/12/09
Some evolutionary psychologists believe that music has no evolutionary purpose and is something that just emotionally tickles our brains. Other evolutionary psychologists believe that meaning and purpose in music is like a peacocks tail ie something to attract a mate. A musical analogy would be Jimmy page strutting across the stage with his guitar and young girls throwing their undies on stage. Would Jimmy have a high probability of getting laid after a concert, I would say so, but many positions of power offer sexual opportunities not just music. Evolutionary psychologists however fail to explain why music can have such varied meanings and is prevalent in every culture. If by chance music doesn’t have an evolutionary purpose then evolutionary psychologists need to explain why has music existed in all cultures for so long, surely evolutionary lag has outlived its time limit.