the universal language of mankind

   Most people, when asked what the most beautiful language is to them, respond saying French, Italian, ect, but do they realize that there are other forms of language to the human race? The most beautiful language in my opinion is music;a language created by the whole human race. Henery Wadswoth Longfellow once said that "Music is the universal language of mankind." Lonfellow use of "universal language" trys to convey that music is something that can be comprehended effortlessly. But at the same time, he can also mean that there is not a single word to define music; it is just something that is universally known automatically. That way, allowing people to interpret and infuse their own understanding to the piece.
　 Music surpasses the language barrier due to the connection it makes with human emotions. Japanese, Portugese or Finnish , no mater what nationality or language they speak, they will all sense the same feelings of anger and frustration from Beethovens' 5th symphony to the playfullness of Mozart's Flute Concerto No.2. But why is it that both pieces contains no words yet we all feel the same emotions as the music floods our eardrums? It all has to do with the relation betweeen the tone and language.When ever someone is happy they tend to have a higher pitch allowing the mind to relate the high note with the high pitch of happiness, and likewise with sadnness equalling a low pitch. This, of course, is what allows the musician to enter a studio and start of with the basic C chord following it with an array of relative minor chords on the piano and, then without a word a guitarist begins to strum an A chord and so on building on and on all off of impov and sensing the emotion through the tone the piano created. No matter the language difference both musicians can come together and make people feel alive through their art work because "Music is a universal language of makind."
   As a musician, I interpret Longfellow's quote as saying that music as a universal language allows all musicians of the world to come together but, as an average listener of music I see it as language doesn't create a barrier for my music preference to expand beyond the English language. The truth is, I have been listening to Hindi music ever since young and recently gained a liking to K-pop; eventhough I may not understand what they are saying, that does not prevent me from liking a song. The music doesn't even necesserily have to be a different language, it can be scremo or lyrics that sound like othere words where it may be hard to make out what they are saying.We all know that time where a friend was singing a song and they were saying the wrong lyrics. But the truth is the majority people don't even like a song for the lyrics but rather the music composed behind them. If that was the case where music preference was based on lyrics, then foreign music would not be such a big hit in America or other English speaking countries.
  Music has become a language that every person on the Earth's surface can understand,and just might be the most beautiful creation of the human race. Allowing us to paint an image in our mind just based on a tune being played and communicate with each other what is in our souls without uttering a word, music can bring a sense of living to a person.