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Music that was meaningful
Jeffrey
Veteran
What moved you? You can tell a story about it. Or not. So I think this one says something about me when I was going mental. In the hospital they asked you to write a sentence and I posted: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy yellow dog. Which has all the letters of the alphabet and I learned it typing which kind of centered me. My doc eventually was named Fox, doctor Fox.
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Who sings this song. It's beautiful, just like you.
Their music calls to me. Breath of life. Breath of feeling. Soothing. Calming. Cheering
Do you like Simon and Garfunkel "sound of silence..."
Hello darkness, my old friend. . .
That means my soul liked it.
Take this short but powerful piece of music, for example:
NOTE:
Please close your eyes, as the video imagery is distracting. Please, just for the first time, don't look- just listen.
this is my absolutely mostest favouritest piece of music ever ever ever, because my now deceased father, used to play it so beautifully.... (I'm welling up as I type)
He played it in concert once, and i wept buckets....
it's extremely difficult to play, because Rachmaninov had a handspan of 11 notes - over an octave....
anyhow, the whole composition, together, makes my heart soar....
but then, if you listen to a piece of music, over and over again, particularly the specific piece that opens your soul - and begin to 'detach' one instrument form the others, and listen to that alone, you begin to see the skandas - the sum of the parts - the components which make up the whole - and the piece's impact begins to dissipate, as you see it for what it is:
Every component is dependent on every other component to give it substance, meaning and 'power'. Each component on its own is highly important and significant, and the whole would be poorer for its absence - but without its fellow players, its impact is not as forceful, and it works better when sustained, backed and supported by all the others....
so the piece of music I posted is magnificent, and just stops me in my tracks when i hear it - but by breaking it down to its individual contributory parts, its revealed to me in all its glory - separate, yet whole.....and i see its ordinariness, and it's majesty, all at the same time....
And if my ears could not hear it, how would it speak to me, at all?
I love how you described that, much better than I would have.
Will you guys be kind and post coldplay 's "us against the world "...please.
Have you ever heard the band called shinedown, they have a song called "her name is Alice."
Why do you think I picked Alison as a username? Will you post it, I am on my mobile.