Music, a language before words

[songwrittensoul]

Did you know that before an infant understands words or the concept of language, it begins to analyze its mother's voice through rhythms, dynamics, and timbre...all musical qualities? Music is in fact a language and without it our lives are dull and dry to the bone. God wired our brains so magnificantly to receive and enjoy music. We are musical

Comments

[vichickmary]

There's also that whole "Play Mozart for your baby to make it smarter" deal too.

[beccaisamess]

so after reading this this morning i read the first chapter of "the weight of the glory" by c.s. lewis and he was talking about how basically christianity is not an ends but a means to satisfy our need for heaven and experiencing God's glory and stuff and then i thought about what you wrote about music for music's sake... it was beautiful... God was all like "hey becca I AM the beautiful symphony. you're not studying my word to become any smarter or more virtuous. you are studying it to experience Me for My sake cause i put it in you to experience the rhythms and the melodies and the creativity of Me". it was crazy cool.

anyway, glad we both survived the terror of rita '05. PEACE OUT!!

[just_farrah]

that was an AWESOME post! I love that quote too!