Perception of Beauty

http://www.egodialogues.com/general/violinist-in-metro.php

I suggest reading this ^ first, it's only a couple of paragraphs.

I was using the website Stumbleupon.com recently and this page came up about this social experiment that was done in a Washington D.C metro station. At first I thought it was a joke website that came up but as I continued reading I was really surprised by what I read because I had never heard of this before. It made a lot of sense about our perception of beauty. Reading other peoples comments on the story or experiment added more to the story. Another interesting point I got from this was that children were the ones to stop and listen. It makes me wonder if we are socially taught to keep walking and not pay much attention to what is going on around us. Why do we pay hundreds of dollars to go see him perform in a theater, rant and rave about how wonderful it is then not even recognize the same thing in the streets? We talked mainly about beauty in terms of nature but I feel like this extends our perception of beauty through other means. Along these same lines this makes me think about music in terms of nature. I feel music is almost a natural occurring thing, especially because music has been around for what to me seems like forever. I was really surprised when I just looked up the dictionary definition of the word music on the dictionary on my computer. The definition I got was "the art or science of combining vocal or/and instrumental sound to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion." The fact that the beauty of form was used to define the word music was interesting to me.