Quote Originally Posted by Seraph
For me, the whole case declension/agreement system is pretty magical sounding. The words have to agree and be internally consistent to such degree that it is, well, musical. But you need to be a musician to comprehend how music can do a similar thing with keys, chords, phrases, arpeggios, etc.



Very true! But any language (or just a specific text) can sound musical -- some, more Chopin, some, more Schoenberg.
For me German has a strange appeal in how it sounds, although convention dictates that it's not a "beautiful" sounding language.