Animation and Music are both different fields of entertainment but they both have a very close relationship with one another. Music is very important for animation and animation works extremely well with music. Both create emotional associations through our most influential senses. A certain tune or melody can remind us of a place or an event. And for people who grew up watching animation can sometime instantly associate the animation with the music. Animation is very similar to music in terms of timing/texture and rhythm.
A film like Walt Disney's Fantasia is a very good example of how the music in the film injects character and personality to its characters. The sounds and music of Dukas' Sorcerer's Apprentice, which created a feeling of a mischievous mouse and an army of broomsticks - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHEMkbyXFxs.
More examples that have shown a lot of integration with animation and music are Tarzan, The Jungle Book and Nightmare Before Christmas. If you mute some parts of the animation there is a massive difference in how you read the animation, and thus it shows how important musicality is.
Carlos Baena (Pixar / Paramount Pictures / Animation Mentor Co-founder) said "As I learned more about musical terms I found their equivalent in animation terms. Things like tempo, beats, accents, phrase, rhythm, legato, staccato, adagio, presto, finale, monotone to name a few all have things that you can apply to animation in some way or another."
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