Oh, music is very special. Iain McGilchrist wrote this about the relationship between the right brain hemisphere and music:
Music, being grounded in the body, communicative of emotion, implicit, is a natural expression of the nature of the right hemisphere… Given that intonation of the voice and the emotional aspects of experience are its special concern, it is to be expected that music would be a largely (though not exclusively) right hemisphere phenomenon...
Musical phrases act like metaphors, emanating from, and enormously expanding the meaning of, movement in and of the body: rising, falling, pulsing, breathing. Many features of music, including obviously syncopations, but also melodic appoggiaturas and enharmonic changes, set up patterns of expectation which are ultimately either confirmed or disappointed; and this process leads to physiological reactions such as alterations in breathing, or changes in heart rate, in blood pressure, and even in temperature, as well as bringing us out in a sweat, bringing tears to our eyes, or making our hair stand on end…
It has been said that music, like poetry, is intrinsically sad, and a survey of music from many parts of the world would bear that out - not, of course, that there is no joyful music, but that even such music often appears to be joy torn from the teeth of sadness, a sort of holiday of the minor key. It is what we would expect in view of the emotional timbre of the right hemisphere; and there is a stronger affinity between the right hemisphere and the minor key, as well as between the left hemisphere in the major key…
The Master and His Emissary