A whole different language

I'm constantly amazed at how powerful music is in inducing emotions, and also at the complexity of those emotions. Verbal language, on the other hand, is very inefficient at describing emotional states, which I think prevents us from appreciating what music is capable of--because most of the time we simply can't describe it. Read, for example, a verbal description of a mood of any Chopin piece; it's striking how incredibly shallow it is when compared to the mood you feel when you actually listen to it. You'll read words like "melancholy" or "longing" or whatever--all of which are true but way too general and therefore grossly incomplete. Sure it's melancholy and longing, but of a very specific kind, and for some reason we don't have analytic categories to communicate specific shades of general emotional states. Perhaps there are too many of those shades. Or perhaps communicating them efficiently is for some reason completely unimportant for the functioning of society. Or maybe the "shades" are too subjective--when I see Alice blue, someone else sees carmine pink or something.

Added: The ability to elicit extremely complex and varied emotions is I think a property of music as a language and is independent of its quality. Kitschy music can make me feel things way too complex for words just as readily as truly great music.