"Architecture is frozen music" : a study of a parallelism between music and architecture

Abstract

Art is a medium of expressing numerous human emotions and ideas, which minister to our moral; affect ional and intellectual needs. Despite Arts’ different modes of expression, Poetry, painting, music, Architecture has more or less identical aims; to evoke emotions in us. Architecture is less aware to people because it is a part and parcel of every human being. So that architecture is less perceived, whereas music, seen as a separate entity is perceived more. Thus, music is very close to people whereas Architecture is less so. It is since an inception of a human being that musical inspiration gets into a life. The rhythm starts the day an infant’s heart starts beating inside his mother’s lullaby. Although Music has closer links with architecture than any other art form, architecture, the unavoidable communal art form, though it is a need for existence for every human being is not felt and perceived to majority of people unlike music.