Emma

“Sound can convey emotional qualities such as anger, fear, joy, affection, sadness, and excitement, plus varying intensities of those emotions. Music can capture and convey these emotions. Researchers have noted that “music is one of the best forms of emotional communication known.” The emotion in music affects your own emotions; exciting music gets you excited. This is another example of “emotional contagion.” Music, indeed, relies on emotional contagion, which derives from the human brain’s ability to trigger an emotional match. In a word, the ability to form an emotional match is: empathy. Feel the music. *”
― Carl Safina, Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel