Is music a universal language?

@ninalanyon but doesn’t it elicit similar feelings?

@ninalanyon It is, but both styles are very popular in both areas of the world.

@ArishMell @Silentcry The tuning of the instruments is quite different, rhythms are different. I very much doubt that someone who is only familiar with European music would have the same emotional reaction to Chinese music as a Chinese person brought up with it.

@ninalanyon Quite possibly, and of course vice-versa.

Chinese and indeed Indian music is not easy for a Westerner to listen to, and presumably an Asian might say similarly of European music; but this interchange is large enough to mean something.