Music and Emotions

Abstract

Music is a composition of melodic sounds which please human mind. It has been said that sound is the background of music. A sound is a composite of body of vibration of either unit, surcharged with energy. All the musicologists have said that sound is divided into two parts, unconscious unmanifested (anahata) and conscious manifested (ahata) ones. The manifested sound represented itself as the non-musical sound like speech and the musical sound like song. The musical sound is melodious, sweet and soothing, where as nonmusical sound is suitable only for speech.