The universal language of all cultures

Abstract

Music is a language that is expressed through the audible sounds for which no one requires a translation, therefore music can be utilized, when shared between cultures in the right fashion, as a tool to increase brotherhood among people in the world. Sharing music by means of a concert or audio-visual tools falls short when it comes to penetrating the human sentiment. Our concert audiences always tend to prefer the music that they were brought up with; our music schools only answer to the European tradition. One can conclude that an appreciation of different musical cultures in the world depends on the degree of musical education at an early stage. Therefore one must consider an early musical education starting at the elementary school level. We believe that every child should be educated within its own culture first, in order to proceed to develop an appreciation of the culture of fellow nations within the same continent. Once a cultural foundation has been established – including the musical aspects – the child must be familiarized with and learn to appreciate the music and people of different continents in order to slowly become a world citizen. It is not the intention of this ambitious plan to unite the music of different cultures, but rather to maintain the musical diversity of the different continents, each with its own rich instrumental and vocal heritage, that accompanies people from birth until death. This diversity deserves to be perpetuated, as is done with musical masterpieces which can be attributed to their composers. Thus it can be achieved that the people of different nations may contact and communicate by means of a not yet exploited sonorous language which is familiar to everybody.