Music as a Lifelong Learning Opportunity

Thanks to its manifold nature, music provides a wonderful lifelong learning opportunity, namely for adults. It does it, provided that we know how to interrogate it, how to ask question to music. “Learning” is meant here in the richest sense, referring not only to the cognitive processes, but also to the emotional education. The present paper will focus on the latter, showing how music can engender and enhance processes of emotional understanding, enrichment, and even transformation.