Music is Universal

4.5/5 (6)

Listen to music

Music is important. On this site, you will find musical pages with composers and musicians, which I particularly like. Here you can see and hear performances by superior artists of the best music composed by the greatest composers of all time.

Music can be enjoyed by all – irrespective of language, culture, religion, age, gender, and political views. Music can unify all people – it is truly universal.

Playing and listening to music involves using the whole brain. Music is intrinsic to all cultures and has surprising benefits not only for learning a language, improving memory, and focusing attention but also for physical coordination and development.

Specific Beneficial Effects

  • Music can help reduce both the sensation and distress of pain.
  • Relaxing music can help reduce elevated blood pressure and keep it low.
  • Slow music has a calming effect: it decreases significantly the heart and breathing rates.
  • Music can help migraine and chronic headaches by reducing the intensity, frequency, and duration of the headaches.
  • Music can boost the immune function by creating a positive and profound emotional experience, which increases the secretion of immune-boosting hormones and decreases levels of the stress-related hormone cortisol.
  • Music during childbirth can decrease post-natal anxiety, depression, and pain, and increase satisfaction with childbirth.
  • Music therapy in an early stage of tinnitus can prevent it from becoming chronic.
  • Music by Mozart (Sonata for Two Pianos in D major – K 448) has been demonstrated to reduce seizure recurrence in childhood epilepsy.
  • In stroke listening to music promotes behavioral recovery by inducing fine-grained neuroanatomical changes in the recovering brain.

Please Rate This Page

“Where words fail, music speaks.”

Hans Christian Andersen

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“The only truth is music.”

Jack Kerouac

“Ah, music,” he said, wiping his eyes. “A magic beyond all we do here!”

J.K. Rowling

“Music is … A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”

Ludwig van Beethoven

Music doesn’t lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

Jimi Hendrix

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Plato