Ear-Love
Music is a form of love that is transmitted via the recipient’s ears.
Ear-Love is not the most “mature” form of human love. For instance, music is mainly one-direction (from the composer/performer to the listener, very little from the listener back to the composer/performer); more mature forms of love are typically bi-directional (e.g. love between mother and child).
But music does have many characteristics which are associated with love: It is mainly pleasurable; it provides a variety of stimulation; it is organized for the benefit of the listener (it is “listener-centric”); it is unconditional (possibly a payment to initiate the music, but after that, no conditions); it is intimate; it is deeply satisfying.
One curious deficiency of music as a form of love: The love is typically delivered “from a distance”. I.e., the composer is typically far away, maybe even dead; if the performance is recorded, then the performer is far away; even if the performance is live, typically the performer is on a stage or in some other way “separated” from the listener. In many cases, the identity or persona of the composer/performer is not even known (a kind of secret lover?).
There is probably more to be said about Ear-Love, to be continued …