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Emotion seems to always be tied to music because when we listen to music, it always succeeds in evoking a transcendent passion bubbling up within us. However, Ratliff argues that music can mimic the motion of feelings and that we have to have some sort of context to clue us into what the song is about. Ratliff describes what is called a state of transmission, which is an extreme form of emotion in music that transcends specific moods. Students or seekers can feel the power of transmission by seeking to let go of their own existence and perceive the essence of their god. Ratliff doesn’t think there is a glorious religious ecstasy in music and I disagree. How is one supposed to make music without the emotion behind it? Some of the greatest hits were created because the artist went through some sort of emotional turmoil to write it. Ratliff uses The Beatles’ Julia as an example of transmission. He focuses on John Lennon’s voice and how Lennon puts great attention into his tone and how it’s clear and sensitive toward the song. Following Ratliff’s example, I used Aerosmith’s Dream On and focused on the powerful dynamic combination of the drums, guitars, and lyrics. This intoxicating trio makes me feel empowered and like I can do anything I set my mind to.

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Our emotional response to music comes from our Amygdala and Nucleus accumbens in the brain

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Music can bring out the happiness in us

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One of Ratliff's Examples of Transmission

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One of Ratliff's Examples of Transmission

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"We need to attach emotional descriptions to music to music in order to contain it, fix it, tag it, draw it's boundaries, know what use it has, and remember how to find it."
~Ben Ratliff "Every Song Ever" chap. 4 pg 54

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"It can reproduce  the motion of a physical process according to the prevailing momentum: fast, slow, strong, weal, rising, falling...It can depict not love but only such motion as can occur in connection with love or any other affect, which however is merely incidental to that affect"
~Eduard Hanslick "Every Song Ever" chap.4 pg 51 (talking about the skepticism of music producing feelings)

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"It's the most human part of music, the carrier of emotion"
~Ben Ratliff "Every Song Ever" chap. 4 pg 49 (talking about tone)