Are we producers of music, or consumers of music?

Interesting article to read - This helps underpin the role of liturgical music...

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v454/n7200/full/454032a.html
Nature 454, 32-33 (3 July 2008) | doi:10.1038/454032a; Published online 2 July 2008

Science and Music: The ear of the beholder

John Sloboda¹

1. John Sloboda is professor of psychology and an honorary research fellow at the Institute of Law, Politics and Justice, Keele University, Newcastle, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, UK. He is the author of Psychology for Musicians (Oxford University Press, 2007).

Abstract

In the last of nine Essays on science and music, John Sloboda argues that researchers must study music as people actually experience it, if they are to understand how it affects thoughts and feelings.

Thanks to technology, we have an unprecedented choice of music to listen to, and places and times to hear it. Music has never been more accessible.