All history majors at Dickinson College must complete a Senior Seminar to graduate. The artistic emotion with which music is created can be applied to almost any situation. Its primary focus is to trigger a response, or to share an emotion such as happiness or joy, sorrow or loss. But the ability to touch any listener at any time is what sets it apart from most other forms of artistic expression. One can visit museums and galleries to see paintings, but outside of the moment of view, the experience does not always stay fresh in the memory.
Music illuminates our society today and has for years.
It is always fresh in our minds, and a part of our every day life. In turn, because of this, music becomes part of our memories as a society. The attachment we have with music is what brings us closer to those memories. Music is the fabric which most tightly holds together our memories of war. The answer for the most part, is no.