Feeling a piece of music means feel meaning in how sounds follow each other. It is not a simple process as people think. People have become accustomed to being able to understand a piece of music relatively quickly. However, they forget that before listening to a given piece, they have been exposed to similar pieces for many years.
To feel a piece of music, the listener doesn’t need virtually any musical knowledge. For example, in my family, almost every child, around the age of three, cried during listening the Christmas carol “Jezus malusieńki” (en. “little Jezus”) To feel a piece of music, one needs, above all, the composer’s intentions.
In a feeling of music is something magic. Most people, after listening to his favorite music doesn’t need to deep knowing musical theory, doesn’t need to remember every layer of instrumental background and/or harmonic piece. Former listener can reconstruct this piece in his mind despite the missing pieces. Additionally, most people would be able to sing this song out of tune, but in his head the song is played perfectly.
Learning to feel music
Not every music are so easy to feel and/or to understand. The more difficult the music, the more it requires from the listener. Last years I used my mind as an “experimental field” for music. I has been learning a very hard to feel music: pieces without overt melody, with irregular rythms or without rhytms, sometimes without repetitions. Many times I listened to these songs that seemed like random sounds but finally my mind understand intentions. It looks like my mind has given a property to feel – it is as if listening training has placed a gap in the brain into which the puzzle piece of the song can be fitted.