Music to Raise the Dead: The Secret Origins of Musicology

But for virtually all of us, music has great power, whether or not we seek it out or think of ourselves as particularly “musical.”

You can’t touch music—it exists only at the moment it is being apprehended—and yet it can profoundly alter how we view the world and our place in it. Music can get us through difficult patches in our lives by changing not only how we feel about ourselves, but also how we feel about everything outside ourselves.