MUSIC: A TOOL OF NON VERBAL COMMUNICATION (WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO INDIAN MUSIC)

There are many complex feelings which cannot be expressed through verbal means so people, all over the world, use arts, particularly fine arts, in order to express their individual experiences and creativity. Music is a one form of this art. The musicians symbolize the intended messages and codify them and allow the spectator or viewer to decode and interpret the hidden messages or meanings. Therefore, music is not only a tool of conveying a wide range of the stories, emotions, feelings, inner world symbolically, didactically or in a hidden mode. This paper aims to focus on various ways through which music remains a tool of non-verbal communication.