I have been able to understand the feeling a painting or a drawing can bring to a viewer. But I had a hard time to under why do we associate feeling with music. Music can certainly mimic the sounds of the nature. However, most of the classic music have well passed mimicking bird, water sounds, yet it brings out more emotion than natural sounds can.

I watched a YouTube video made by Lasse Gjertsen, that he basic created a video from a few short segments of drum and piano play. Yet, the mix of such sequences is very compelling.

I lost my line of thought. I thought I see something in the video to explain about the power of music, but I now lost that. All I can think about the video is that this guy has a good feel of music, basically play out the sequence in his head.

Oh, I now remember, the idea was that our feeling of music depends how much we know about how the music is made. For example, Lasse's end product may not match the quality of a real band, but by watching what he used to put together the piece, we appreciate more about the work. This also why to understand music more one has to learn to play an instrument. And this is also why life concert always provides more to the listeners.

Pop music makes more sense to the mass because everyone can sing. The vocal cord is the music instrument everyone has and can appreciate more from other's voices.