Music as a source of emotions

Do you know what our emotional sphere is? Everything about our emotions. Positive or negative sensations, linked to stimuli, experiences and memories. Music is rightly considered the form of art that more than any other manages to excite us, and it does so in the most direct and immediate way. When the first notes start, our mind is immediately transported to a new dimension. Surely the structure of a song plays an important role: rhythm, tonality and the expectation that is created in us listeners are already able to direct our response but to this also contribute significantly factors of more personal type, like our experiences and our mood. Elements that make our reactio of an individual and subjective nuance of colors. For example, a song can evoke a memory that brings us back to a certain emotion already experienced and recalled by listening. A memory and an emotion that concerns us and only us, among hundreds or thousands of other potential listeners. But that’s not all. Not always the emotions that come from music are involuntary and random responses that involve us in an unexpected way. Sometimes it is we who listen to a song with the precise intention of confronting a certain mood. In this case we say that the sensations we feel while listening to a song can have a dual origin. It can happen that we pour on the music our experiences to look for answers to a state of mind that we struggle to understand or control, just as it can happen that a song becomes the means to experience something, a feeling or an experience, that until now in our life had been missing. In both cases listening gives us the opportunity to confront ourselves. A moment of introspection that becomes an opportunity to look with new eyes at what we are or what we would like to be. It confronts us with feelings and situations that someone other than us is experiencing. It allows us to confront his interpretation and his reactions, and then let us decide whether or not to embrace his ideas.