"Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak."

--Congreve, The Mourning Bride

Humans attach meaning to life through ceremony. The highest form of ceremony is the act of making music. Music is universal -- its beats, rhythms, melodies, and tempos speak much more deeply than words.

Dancing and music, taken together or alone, are used by many cultures to bring their practitioners to a state of enlightenment -- the chanting of Christian Orthodox monks, the whirling Dervish, the songs of the Native American Lakota, a gospel choir in a Baptist church.

Other music just moves us and makes us move.

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