Why Do We Have Music? In a world full of universal truths, the public majority cares not to distinguish between which ideas are truly acknowledged the world ‘round, and which are just fabrications (Meyer). According to Leonard B. Meyer’s article in The Journal of American Medical Association, there are no existing universal truths in the many ideas of music and its theories. However, music by itself, is universal, because music is a prevalent tool …showed first 75 words of 1563 total…

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