Abstract
Abstract Music has many different functions in human life, nearly all of which are essentially social. We use music to communicate with one another: it is possible for people from widely differing cultural backgrounds to establish contact through music even though the languages they speak may be quite incomprehensible to one another. Music can arouse deep and profound emotions within us, and these can be shared experiences between people from quite different backgrounds. From the physicist’s point of view, music consists of a set of sounds with particular frequencies, amplitudes, and timbres which are organized by the composer and/or performer into highly organized and predictable patterns: what makes these sounds into music is the way in which people collectively imbue them with musical meaning, and a vital part of this process is the social and cultural context in which the sounds exist.
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