Music transcends reality. It heightens your awareness and brings you to an altered state. When you go into an altered state, you leave behind your pains and aches and the business of the day so that new priorities may appear. That's what some call the sacred dimension, and it is what you might call religion. There's a new heat in your body which is filled with the feelings that you usually have when you walk down the street.
Music is that kind of energy that releases some kind of fluid or maybe it's adrenaline.
We don't know what it is but science is about to find out. It's vibration and it works on the brain. What part of the brain, what frequency, what rate, how is the brain different after a musical experience, all of this is being studied. Melody, harmony, rhythm. The big science is now looking at that.