Vibrations in the air can stir enough feeling so as to bring a grown man to tears by their mere presence.
Memories come flooding back as the music plays, and emotions are recreated with every passing note.
Emotions have been overlooked time and again through the ages. Emotions consisted of erroneous beliefs, and temptations that should be ignored. Modern science, too, has ignored the wide-ranging impact of emotional states in human beings, preferring instead to focus on the biological aspects of the human state of being. Time after time we can read about genetics and cellular biology, about how inheritance determines, for the most part, who we are. The emotional side of things seems to be missing.