A Friend Found in Music

I often choose instrumental music while reading because it supports concentration without competing with words. At other times, meaningful vocal music helps me engage with emotion and language.

1. shore — music calls like an ocean.
2. rhythm — it harmonises with the speaker’s core.
3. therapy — it eases sadness.
4. spirits — music lifts them.
5. cheerful — music shares joyful times.
6. needed friend — it stays when no one seems to care.

Music produces a deep emotional effect rather than a shallow or temporary reaction.

1. Music is as powerful and attractive as an ocean.
2. Music is as natural and moving as rhythm.
3. Music is as healing as therapy.
4. Music is as comforting as a needed friend.

The pattern is ABCB DEFE GHIH. The second and fourth lines of each stanza rhyme, creating a gentle recurring musical close without making the language rigid.

Repetition keeps the source of comfort at the front of each image and shows that music enters every emotional part of the speaker’s life.

Music can heal, encourage, share happiness and offer companionship. Its emotional value can be as important as its entertainment value.

Sadness, discouragement or emotional difficulty.

‘Music lifts my spirits.’

Music supplies hope and resilience that help the speaker continue through a difficult period.

Yes. It influences her sadness, recovery, joy and loneliness, so it functions as a continual form of support.

Rhythm and sound reach her deepest feelings and change her emotional state, rather than merely pleasing her ears.

It remains available in lonely moments, responds without judgement and changes how the speaker feels, like dependable companionship.

It is loving, trusting and grateful. She treats music as essential, restorative and emotionally reliable.

People across cultures experience music during happiness, grief, worship, work and celebration. Many recognise its power to change mood and create belonging.

1. put off — postpone; put on — wear; put away — store correctly.
2. get up — rise; get over — recover; get along — have a friendly relationship.
3. look after — care for; look for — search; look into — investigate.
4. break down — stop functioning; break out — begin suddenly; break up — separate or end.

The organisers put off the concert during the storm, but the musicians used the extra week to get over their nervousness.

A student may worry about study time, while a parent worries about distraction. A teacher can explain that a realistic timetable, short regular practice and clear priorities allow music and study to coexist. Music can develop listening, discipline, creativity and confidence.

24, Shanti Nagar, Bhopal

17 June 2026

Dear Grandparents,

Our school will hold a musical evening for World Music Day on 21 June at 5:00 p.m. in the auditorium. I will present a sitar recital and would be delighted to have you there. Your presence and blessings would make the performance very special.

Yours affectionately,

Vaibhav

Trained professionals may use listening, singing, instruments, composition or movement to support stress management, emotional expression, communication, memory, motivation and rehabilitation. It complements appropriate care rather than replacing every medical treatment.

Sa, Re, Ga, Ma, Pa, Dha and Ni—short forms of Shadja, Rishabha, Gandhara, Madhyama, Panchama, Dhaivata and Nishada.

Walter de la Mare’s ‘Music’ imagines sound transforming the natural world and awakening enchanted memory, showing another way poetry can express music’s power.

He wants to learn the santoor but the teacher visits the centre only twice a week, so regular hands-on practice is difficult.

Playing an instrument is a practical motor skill. Observation helps, but it cannot replace repeated guided practice on an instrument.

She will ask a friend who played the santoor to lend an instrument until the family can purchase one, allowing practice at home.

He is willing to work hard and genuinely values the instrument; his sadness comes from limited access, not laziness.