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What does it mean?
Describes music's ability to evoke emotion, thought, and movement.
In plain terms
Music makes you feel, think, and sometimes move.
What can you take from it?
Music connects emotion, mind, and body.

Where it applies

  • listening
  • creative work
  • exercise

Putting it to work

  • music therapy
  • playlists
  • performance

Questions to consider

  • How does music move you?
  • What songs make you think?

Another view

Not everyone responds to music the same way.

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