The Power of Music

[Lote-Tree]

No. It's not another thread about your favourite band, musician or lyric but about the Power Of Music - i.e. what music does for you :D

Example

Rodrigo - Concerto De Aranjuez

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKEJSk0J8jE

When I hear this piece of music I am standing in a lush green field under a delphenium-blue sky. There is soft gentle breeze against my skin. My eyes are gazing towards the horizons. They then climb the gentle slopes of the distant snow-capped mountains and follow the streams with sparkling waters. And then the final comes - a gush of wind me lifts me up in it's warm embrace towards the cloudless sky - higher and higher it lifts me and then it stops for a second and then I gently come down to earth like a feather coming to rest on the ground....Brilliant :D

What does music does for you?

Care to share what your favourite music does for you?

[amalia1985]

My favourite music helps me travel. Many times, it helps me think, other times certain songs make me look upon the world differently.

By the way, Rodrigo's "Concerto De Aranjuez" makes me shudder. It is one of the best examples of the power of Music on a human's soul, in my opinion. A masterpiece!!

[mercy_mankind]

Lote-Tree

That is very good , I think that you are one of the members that has different ideas and thoughts , you really discuss useful ideas ,so thank you.

Music: when i have read that word i remember songs , because i couldn't listen to pure music without words .
Songs , i love all Islamic songs , they make me feel with everything that i face , that songs could change me for better ,
and ..........
i'll complete later , i've to go Now.

[Nossa]

Music makes me relax basically. I normally imagine myself on a beach, just sitting back, enjoying the ocean, maybe holding one of my favorite books. Sometimes it takes me to green hills, blue skies...Music takes me to my happy place I guess :D

[Bakiryu]

Music influences my feelings. For example, when I listen to daft punk, I want to move and jump around like an idiot. Or when I'm sad and I listen to Ohio (by Hawthorne Heights) it makes me want to write poetry. It's different with each song I guess.

[LadyWentworth]

Music is probably the one thing that dominates my life! :p As I have stated before, I do like all genres of music. There are some that I favor more than others. For those that I tend to favor more, they are the ones that really affect me in some sort of way.

For classical, there is nothing better than Mozart's 4th movement from Jupiter. That is followed closely behind by Borodin's "In the Steppes of Central Asia". Both uplifting pieces of music that have a flowing quality to them.

Then there is music from movies. How many of John Williams' compositions could I name? The one that tops everything is James Horner's music for the film "Glory". It is stirring and, at the same time, almost melancholic. Beautiful music.

As for SONGS, there are many to name. I like anything from 80's pop to 50's rock 'n roll to 70's disco. There are many songs from these times that "get" to me. Yet, there are really only two types of music where the songs truly "touch" me in some sort of way. Those are the songs from musical theater and from the big band/swing era.

Both of these genres have songs that are silly and fun, or just happy, bouncy tunes. Something that will put me in a good mood if I am a little down, or something that will let me experience such enjoyment while listening to them. Then, these two genres also produce some of the most beautiful, lyrical and melodic songs that I have ever heard. A great part of the fact that these songs can have such an emotional "hold" over me has a lot to do wiht the people singing the songs. Especially from the swing era. When I hear the smoothness of the crooners I just want to die! It is so fantastic!

So, for me, music really does accompany my life! There is a little bit to fit every mood that I am in and I don't know, now that I have experienced as much as I have, how to live without it!! :p

[LadyWentworth]

By the way, Lote, I just finished watching that YouTube video. I completely understand what you feel while listening to this! Just great! :D

[livelaughlove]

Josh Groban is my singer of choice; his music is just absolutely amazing. His voice is so rich and vibrant that it brings everything to life. It is soothing yet it sweeps you off your feet. I don't have to be in a certain mood to enjoy his music... I can turn it on anytime and immediately be taken into another world, one that parallels my own but is so beautiful that it feels like I'm living a dream.

[Shea]

The book I'm writing is slightly autobiographical since the main character of it is a harpist. I had a hard time writing this exerpt because I kept getting the urge to play harp instead.


She eagerly sat behind her harp and played through a few chords to check the tune of the strings. As she began to play her first song, it was like finally getting an itch scratched after hours of discomfort. With her arms around the soundbox and it leaning lovingly toward her shoulder, it gave her the sensation of rocking a baby to sleep. Lost in her music, she became one with the harp...
...She played “Danny Boy,” thinking of the words and trying to play the strings loud or soft, depending on which words were attached to those notes. She thought of Grandma Maggie as she played it. “There’s not an Irishman alive that doesn’t cry when they hear that song,” she had said. Sarah remembered listening to her Grandmother’s lovely Irish lilt explaining the meaning of the song and how families had to leave each other because there was no work where they lived. “The summer’s gone and all the roses falling, ‘Tis you, ‘tis you, must go and I must bide.” Loath to give up their land, at least one family member was obliged to remain behind in order to maintain the family’s claim to it.
Her notes rising and falling to the mood of the song, Sarah slowed dramatically at the section of lyric where Danny comes to the grave of the singer to proclaim his love. “And all my grave will warmer, sweeter be. For you will bend, and tell me that you love me and I shall sleep in peace until you come to me.” Sarah was almost in tears because it made her think of being so removed from her own family, though the song comforted her all the same.
She was so involved in her music that the sound of the nearby brook, and the birds in the park merged in her mind to images she had only seen in pictures. She was now in Ireland looking at a rocky green meadow and feeling the culture that created such music.

[Shea]

Josh Groban is my singer of choice; his music is just absolutely amazing. His voice is so rich and vibrant that it brings everything to life. It is soothing yet it sweeps you off your feet. I don't have to be in a certain mood to enjoy his music... I can turn it on anytime and immediately be taken into another world, one that parallels my own but is so beautiful that it feels like I'm living a dream.

I love Josh Groban's version of Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring! Absolutely beautiful!

[Lote-Tree]

My favourite music helps me travel. Many times, it helps me think, other times certain songs make me look upon the world differently.


Gives us a youtube video of a piece of music that does these things for you Amalia? It would be wonderful to listen to it :D



By the way, Rodrigo's "Concerto De Aranjuez" makes me shudder. It is one of the best examples of the power of Music on a human's soul, in my opinion. A masterpiece!!

Yes. Power of Music on the Human Soul! Yes :D


That is very good , I think that you are one of the members that has different ideas and thoughts , you really discuss useful ideas ,so thank you.


Then how come you are not a Member of Lote-Tree's Fanclub :D

Just kiddin :D



Music: when i have read that word i remember songs , because i couldn't listen to pure music without words . Songs , i love all Islamic songs , they make me feel with everything that i face , that songs could change me for better, and ..........i'll complete later , i've to go Now.

I enjoy Sufi Music too especially works by the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.


Music makes me relax basically. I normally imagine myself on a beach, just sitting back, enjoying the ocean, maybe holding one of my favorite books. Sometimes it takes me to green hills, blue skies...Music takes me to my happy place I guess :D

Give us a piece of music that takes you to that "Happy Place" Nossa :D


Music influences my feelings. For example, when I listen to daft punk, I want to move and jump around like an idiot. Or when I'm sad and I listen to Ohio (by Hawthorne Heights) it makes me want to write poetry. It's different with each song I guess.


Give us a an Example Baki? :D



Then there is music from movies. How many of John Williams' compositions could I name?


I love his music too. I think his great :D

By the way, Lote, I just finished watching that YouTube video. I completely understand what you feel while listening to this! Just great! :D

Beuno! :D


Josh Groban is my singer of choice; his music is just absolutely amazing. His voice is so rich and vibrant that it brings everything to life. It is soothing yet it sweeps you off your feet. I don't have to be in a certain mood to enjoy his music... I can turn it on anytime and immediately be taken into another world, one that parallels my own but is so beautiful that it feels like I'm living a dream.

Share with us a track :D

[Pensive]

I enjoy Sufi Music too especially works by the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.

Me too! There is something in his voice that...ummm...well that makes me go even more pensive than I really am.

[Taliesin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czJHTEeEJmU
Lately, this song has been giving sort of a surge of positivism so quite often I sing it under my breath, a bit like "My favourite things" only with things that Roger and Hammerstein wouldn't have even dreamt of in putting to MFT, such as:



To hand-crafted beers made in local breweries
To yoga, to yogurt, to rice and beans and cheese
To leather, to dildos, To curry vindaloo
To huevos rancheros, and Maya Angelou

Emotion, devotion, to causing a commotion,
Creation, Vacation

Mucho masturbation


Bisexuals, trisexuals, Homo Sapiens,
Carcinogens, hallucinogens, men,
Pee Wee Herman
German wine, turpentine, Gertrude Stein
Antonioni, Bertolucci, Kurosawa
Carmina Burana


To sodomy
It's between God and me
To S & M


The opposite of war isn't peace-
it's creation!




Another thing that I have noticed- Bach really fits with mathematics. I mean, really, it does. It somehow purifies the mind making it better to see patterns and it doesn't disturb, but fits.


Rachmaninov is quite good background music for reading. Especially I enjoy when the music and the book fit - when powerful moments in music happen simultaneously with the dramatic points in the book. And even if it doesn't, Rahmaninov really has that sort of energy and bravado and a bit of coarseness and quite a distinguishable Russian style (I mean, on hearing it, you could say : This could be a Russian composer) and it really has emotion.

One of my home-country bands, Vennaskond, also gives energy and positivism and joy- somehow it can maintain a sense of positivism with all kind of lyrics - for example, there is a song called Auld Lang Syne that is about the last march of war prisoners as they are taken to their execution but the song somehow has a sort of happy or positive outlook.

Another one, Metro Luminal, is quite the opposite - those songs feel like a cyberpunk genre in a post-soviet country. Makes you feel sort of agony and disturbing fever, about how the world is ill. It feels like standing and waiting for a train in midst of broken down post-soviet buildings in a world where social order has broken down, corporations rule the world, no justice, no one caring for an individual and it is cold and it is snowing and you are waiting for the train on which your dead friend will arrive - only that it will never arrive.
And snow silently falls and you feel colder and colder.

[Nossa]

Give us a piece of music that takes you to that "Happy Place" Nossa :D



There's not one piece of music in particular. It's like what Baki said, it depends. I love certain voices, like Sharon from Within Temptaion, Dido, Josh Groban...and many more.

As for classical music, I'm a huge fan of Chopin, so most of his works make me so relaxed and even happy (though he was mostly melancholic).
And for Islamic songs, I like Mashari Rashid the most :D

I forgot to include Fayrouz to my list. She's a great lebanese singer, with one of the most beaufitul voices ever!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr08epGWJIA
I couldn't find any other good vid. This is one of my favorite songs. :D

[metal134]

I listened to a lot of heavy metal and it's really dynamic what it can do for me. The same song can give me an adrenaline rush in one situation and help me to relax in another. And far more importantly, it feeds my intellect. GASP! That's right, heavy metal is intellectual. Don't believe that nonsense you're fed by the likes of the PMRC, or the common portryal in the media. Sure, there no shortage of knuckleheads who fit the stereotypical descpritions, such as Motorhead, KISS or Motley Crue. But the problem is that groups like that are all that they show you. They don't show you the likes of Iron Maiden, Dream Theater or Megadeth. I have been exposed to a myriad of literature, poetry, mythology, philosphy, etc. through metal that I would not have been exposed to otherwise and I'm a way better person for it.

[Pensive]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czJHTEeEJmU
Lately, this song has been giving sort of a surge of positivism so quite often I sing it under my breath, a bit like "My favourite things" only with things that Roger and Hammerstein wouldn't have even dreamt of in putting to MFT, such as:


Another thing that I have noticed- Bach really fits with mathematics. I mean, really, it does. It somehow purifies the mind making it better to see patterns and it doesn't disturb, but fits.


Rachmaninov is quite good background music for reading. Especially I enjoy when the music and the book fit - when powerful moments in music happen simultaneously with the dramatic points in the book. And even if it doesn't, Rahmaninov really has that sort of energy and bravado and a bit of coarseness and quite a distinguishable Russian style (I mean, on hearing it, you could say : This could be a Russian composer) and it really has emotion.

One of my home-country bands, Vennaskond, also gives energy and positivism and joy- somehow it can maintain a sense of positivism with all kind of lyrics - for example, there is a song called Auld Lang Syne that is about the last march of war prisoners as they are taken to their execution but the song somehow has a sort of happy or positive outlook.

Another one, Metro Luminal, is quite the opposite - those songs feel like a cyberpunk genre in a post-soviet country. Makes you feel sort of agony and disturbing fever, about how the world is ill. It feels like standing and waiting for a train in midst of broken down post-soviet buildings in a world where social order has broken down, corporations rule the world, no justice, no one caring for an individual and it is cold and it is snowing and you are waiting for the train on which your dead friend will arrive - only that it will never arrive.
And snow silently falls and you feel colder and colder.

Hey, when did you switch from 'We' to 'I'? It was so much more amusing the other way around! :bawling: :p

[Lote-Tree]

I forgot to include Fayrouz to my list. She's a great lebanese singer, with one of the most beaufitul voices ever!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr08epGWJIA
I couldn't find any other good vid. This is one of my favorite songs. :D


That sounded very jolly music Nossa :D

[mercy_mankind]

Then how come you are not a Member of Lote-Tree's Fanclub :D

Just kiddin :D

I enjoy Sufi Music too especially works by the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.


That is very well , but excuse me I don't know your Nusrat .

Let me complete .

I'm arabian , so I used to listen to Arabian music and songs ,
yes all that songs helped me with some useful things , but not much great as that English song ( If you allow that, I'll put the link)

http://www.samiyusuf.com/video/play01_almuallim.htm

really that was the most beautiful song i had ever heard , its Music , Words , also the Video .
All of that made me feel something better , made me cry , not because I felt sadness but because I was extremely happy , so.... that is enough .
Thank you again for the topic ,

[Taliesin]

Hey, when did you switch from 'We' to 'I'? It was so much more amusing the other way around! :bawling: :p

I'll leave it for you to figure out when I started doing it.

You were the first one to notice though.

[andave_ya]

Ooh, finally something I can relate to you with, Lote. I listen to music everyday.

Lux Aeterna by Clint Mansell: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG3GqNMin-U. This dark, brooding piece is from a movie which is reputedly "trippy": Requiem for a Dream. A version of this song was used in the Lord of the Rings Two Towers trailer. It reminds me of something unbearably sad yet immensely important being born...or reborn. The understanding of the weight of adulthood come upon a teenager, perhaps?

The Passing of the Elves by Howard Shore: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUNOl_zbrqk. This one sends goosebumps down my spine. It is sung in Elvish. It is used in LOTR Fellowship of the Ring when Frodo and Sam first set off from the Shire and see the Elves passing to Valinor. This full version is from the Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring: Complete Recordings. Its Oriental overtones are absolutely shiversome; listen to this in a dark forest and you'll just wait for Elves to come out from behind trees.

Dulaman by Celtic Woman's Meav: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH7sg3UjVIQ. Meav is my favorite singer, hands down. THIS music makes me want to dance. Sung in Irish, this song is about courting and Irish seaweed. I kid you not. It's lots of fun.

And finally, The Mystic's Dream by Loreena McKennitt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoUthLnZ0oo It's Celtic music WITH Middle Eastern instruments. Dark forests and unknown presences -- this song is gorgeous, as are the rest of her works.

Ok, apologies, that's a lot. But I had to share.

[Lily Adams]

One band beginning with a D makes me think. So do some others, but not nearly as much as that one. I like music with meaning.

Classical music gives me tingles. Sometimes soundtracks, do, too.

Music just makes me happy. Or sad or angry. Whatever fits. :D

I also see pictures when I hear music, and this provides inspiration for my drawings. That's a very important aspect.

[byquist]

Music is otherworldly. Words plus music is good sometimes. But, often just sound and rhythm, maybe more related to some form of pleasant mathematics, is best. Then, words don't get in the way of fundamental harmony. The saxaphone is my favorite instrument, although never having even held one.

[Nossa]

That sounded very jolly music Nossa :D

lol..yup, it is kinda festive. But I love her voice most. Did you like her voice, or just the music?!

[Lote-Tree]

Ooh, finally something I can relate to you with, Lote.


What do you mean Finally you have somethign to Agree with...you and I agree with...lets see......let me think....don't worry it will come to me... :D

I love the first and the last tracks. They are great :D

And Nossa she does have a great voice :D