Music - shelter for the frazzled mind?

摘要

Our ability to experience andunderstand expressed emotionsis something we take for granted.Whilst we may be aware that the feelingswe experience in response to a springmorning, or a heavy day at the office,differ in quality from those we experiencewhen listening to a Bach fugue, ourcapacity to experience emotionsgeneralises so seamlessly across emotion-evoking phenomena that it is not alwayseasy for us to appreciate that this mightnot be true for everyone. Such rich anddivergent experiences colour our livesand appear to us to be part of what makesus human.