What inner positive qualities can music enhance - compassion?

1/05/2016

A series of musings  I will be continuing with and hope to have others contribute too.

This is a very interesting concept. Compassion in music? Perhaps one that could be answered on various levels.

Does music, or some music, enhance our ability to feel compassion for ourselves and others for instance and what type of music and what "listening attitude" is needed from us for this to come about ..?

If this was more the " aim" of learning to play music ( or listen)  could it lead tom more emotional self confidence and tolerance as opposed to only cognitive achievement  ?

There is much literature available now to show how learning music "enhances" the cognitive ability of a child, concentration and so on, but curiously I personally havent come across much about the emotional and inner growth development . To be direct. Does music help us become a better person? Perhaps a kinder person? . These kind of questions.

This is a curious concept. No parent ever approached me as a teacher asking if perhaps learning an instrument could help a child become settled ( or an adult ) , become calmer , become kinder to others .

Perhaps the background hope for this was there but the subject seemed a bit remote to discuss openly.

That kind of thing is reserved in our culture for religion or psychotherapy .

But why does a child or adult choose to learn music or want to listen . Is it to move their fingers as fast as possible? To become famous and admired? ..to have great knowledge about music?.or is the motivation that music , that whilst we listen or play, we experience certain emotional states or mind states or states of being even that bring us a deeper happiness.. and what kind of happiness?.

to be continued:)




 

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