Music's universal characteristics and cross-cultural significance

¶ … Universality of Music

Music is a very important element of life. Many people say that music colors our life. It is a general form of expressing what we think and what we feel. Thus, when we speak of music, we think not of a specific aspect about music but how music shapes our feelings and mood.

Music is universal. The fact that music exists all over the world, regardless of theme, tone, and the context that it tries to reveal to listeners, proves that music is universal. It is not unusual to see people from one nation who patronizes different kinds of music that originated from other nations. Moreover, there are those who love the music of other culture even if the lyrics are created in a different language that they don't understand. The universality of music is visible from its different characteristics that make people understand its language (in a metaphorical sense). Music is about the characteristics it owns which people can love, such as tone, theme, and the context that it discloses.

Because music is universal, there is sometimes a necessity to translate a music from one language into another. This appears to be able to allow music be heard not only in the place where it was created but also in other places. Because music is among the universal forms of communication, it is important that music, especially those types that reveal essential context, be translated and be heard by other culture.