What Makes Music So Pleasurable?

The power of music lies largely on its characteristic ability to give pleasure, not just to the ears, but also to the human heart. Even people who would say that they themselves have no musical ability would say that they love and enjoy music, and the proverbial defense is: "I love music but it doesn't love me."

Indeed, many people find it an empty experience to hear no music. Some have even gone to addictive levels in their musical delight that they have enrolled themselves to drum lessons just to be able to play and hear their favorite genre or niche whenever they would want to. The addiction among the majority is just quite obvious.

So what makes music addictive? What makes it so pleasurable to human beings?

Background knowledge on how addiction works should help set the context of the answer to the above questions. Addiction is actually a kind of habit, and quite obviously, in many or most cases, the habit is a bad one with sad results. Addiction is characterized by a person's inability to control a passion for something, with him being constantly assailed by tendencies to pursue what he desires as soon as circumstances make him able. The primary motivator for addictions is the amount of pleasure and satisfaction enjoyed by the person every time the addiction is indulged. Most destructive habits which can be rightly categorized as addiction are actually self-centered. In other words, the pleasures that can be enjoyed from these things are merely for the use of the person involved.

As for the "particular pleasures" resulting from music, there are, of course, some kinds that aren't as bad as those destructive types. Among others, a person's desire to learn his guitar lessons or his violin lessons comes from the pleasure he finds from the sound these instruments produce.

Again, the keyword is "hormonal release" that's involved. Yes, it's in the kind of hormonal release that's experienced from a particular musical genre that brings out pleasure into the individual. Only in this case, it is in reasonable levels and of the appropriate types.

To sum up, the pleasures people find in music may be natural, as music has apparently been designed to produce certain hormones into the body. Of course, the language of the music listened to matters, as the type and volume of hormones released depend largely on it. In the end it will still be good for those who have taken guitar, violin or piano lessons to continue their pursuits, most especially if the end-result is not only for their sole enjoyment but that through the musical sound that they produce, they bring pleasure to others,too.

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