Miranda Wilson, an internationally performing cellist, says,
Music is not a daily vitamin or a nasty vegetable that you have to eat before you can have ice cream. Music is worth studying because music is wonderful.
Music isn’t just wonderful. It’s sublime, profound, challenging, polarizing, life-changing. Brain scientists have demonstrated that music activates our pleasure circuits.
Music is dangerous.
Music is so dangerous that even a dissonant interval between two notes–the tritone–was considered so subversive by the medieval church that they called it the “devil in music.” The implication is clear: music breaks rules. Music is above the law.
Music affords us a chance to create beauty in a world that is full of ugliness.
Photograph by Dasha.
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