Music evokes pleasurable limbic states, which result in emotional responses, the brain having its emotional systems triggered off by pleasurable sounds. That's the physical reason. It's very widely argued. I am not going to drop onto that plain and open that can of worms. I want you all to recall moments in your life where you have been significantly moved by that wonderful media medium known as music.

Statistically, 96% of the world's youth who can listen to music DO listen to music regularly. That leaves 4% that don't. If we related those statistics to this classroom, that would mean that only one person in here doesn't listen to music regularly. If music didn't do something for us emotionally, would we listen to it?

A common misconception about music is that it is just notes and lyrics. Charlie Parker, arguably the greatest jazz saxophonist ever, once

All right, I think we're all subsequently convinced that music can affect our emotions, but now, I'm going to prove that music also shapes history.

said, "Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn." To live music... an impossible concept if music was just notes. Music stirs emotions in us because the writer used his own emotions when writing the music.

Music is an important cultural medium and an essential hinge of history. Depending on which way music turns, history could very well follow it, but the main importance of music relates back to us as humans - it changes us. Think back to a time when you heard a tune that changed how you feel, expressed what you couldn't. As long as you can remember that, then I don't have to persuade you that this is true. You've already done that yourself.

Throughout history, music has been used as a platform to express political and social statements, and music censorship has been used to cease these statements, in fear that the populace might respond to these statements in rebellion. In 1607, Renaissance composer Claudio Monteverdi wrote the opera Orfeo, o

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