Further, Dr. Oliver Sacks, a world-renowned clinical professor of neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, explains the benefits of music therapy in treating his patients. The use of language alone only activates the left-hemisphere of the brain, the language center of the brain. However, when music is played, both the right and left hemispheres light up and react. It is language which symbolizes reality. They are words which are used to represent real things.
Music IS reality.
It doesn t symbolize anything. It communicates directly with the emotions and it expresses itself through sound. Music is also intellectual. The complexity of thought which goes into the composition of sounds to produce is extraordinary. Music, like all other artistic pursuits, exercises our need to imagine and create.