The Emotion

While reading Love Affairs of Famous Romantic Composers, I thought about what music generally means.  To many people, music provides and escape from reality, a way to get away from homework, or a fight, or just a means to chill-out and relax.  However, music goes much deeper than that.  The music that truly moves the soul is the music composed and performed with true emotion.  Not only emotion in the composer or performer, but the emotion of the audience.  The emotion of the notes, dynamics and tempo.  While this article doesn't go into depth of these love affairs, the fact is that they're there.  The article mentions a few pieces composed for a wife or a child.  The strongest emotions produce the strongest responses.  The emotion is why we love music.  While practicing may be a pain, just remember how you can move an audience from one fantastic piece, and that indescribable feeling that comes from that connection with the audience.