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Music and emotion are two inseparable things that can't be separated, infact, they are intertwined and work for each other. What this means is that wherever music is, so, you see emotion. Both go hand and in hand and are like a siamese twins. Both are intimately connected, with music being the most powerful tool for emotional expression, regulation and connection.
One thing that's very certain is that, without music, emotion would be difficult to outpour. Though, outpouring of emotion can be done in other ways, but the best and the special way of doing it is through music and that's why you see people crying when they listen to music. This is because of no other reason but for the outpouring of emotions as triggered by music.
Like I used to say, music is life and it forms the major component of human emotions. It has power to evoke emotion, regulate emotion and more importantly, express emotion, but one thing is that, people tends to take music lightly which is not supposed to be so. This is because one of the most powerful tool to control emotion is music.
So, talking about music and emotion, I will like to start with how music is used to express emotions. One thing about music is that it provides an avenue for anybody to pour out his emotions through his or her songs. How is this possible? Through singing, the message being passed across by a singer can be about his or her emotions or let me even say that in most cases, the song sang by a singer is always full of emotion of time, maybe what he or she is passing through at that moment or what's society is passing through. So, singing such song might be an avenue for such a singer to outpour or express his or her emotions to the listening audience.
Another connection between both is the evoking of emotions. Another important thing music does is to trigger emotions of both the singer and the listeners. When it triggers, it evokes the feelings of joy, sadness, excitement, love, loneliness, nostalgic feelings, even hatred. So, for this reason, one can outpours and evokes his or her emotions through music. This is inevitable and shows the connection between music and emotions.
The regulation of emotion by music is another way through which music is connected to emotion. This can really go a long when it comes to managing and maintaining our stress and anxiety. By listening to music, the outpouring of the emotion of the singer through songs can really help to maintain mental and emotional stress, anxiety and or mood swing of an individual.
So, when talking about music and outpouring of emotions they are two different things that are well connected together. Though two separate things that are really inseparable.
Atimes music can be emotional and pass across the needed message to heal and make one happy, it can also go the other way round, it all depends on what emotional message the singer and his or her song is outpouring or passing across
This is my entry to the afri-inleo initiative.
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