06-20-2003, 02:19 AM
Hail Ducky!
While I've never had an experience where I've ended up crying due to a piece of music I know the feeling when something spectacular is played and you are listening to it.
I'm a bit of a student of music from a rather musical family (My step-father plays every brass instrument known to man ;), my mother is a string player/singer, and I play the saxaphone at my local high school band). The Symphonic Band at my school recently played a piece at the district festival which was literally the most beautiful thing I've ever heard performed live, the name being... urg *bang head on wall* Midnight Cry, I believe. That may have been one of the movements, and I've no idea of the composer but it was fantastic to say the least. I am a music lover and although I've never truly listened to any of the great symphonic music created by the greats (Bach, Motzart, Beethoven)) I have played some of the more recent greats such as Percy Grainger.
I'm not sure what about music I love so much, perhaps it is the fact that it is an international language. Perhaps it is the fact that it is both scientific and creative. Perhaps it is the fact that the music created by the greats, and even the not so greats, can move the hearts of people across the world whether they are from the composer's time or not; whether they are from the composer's country or not; whether or not they love music in the first place.
From the slow agonizing beat of "Hymnsong of Philip Bliss" which was written by a man after his wife and children drowned after the ship they were riding sank, to the blistering beats of Karl King or Sousa. Music is something that can be felt by a baby, a grandmother, a mother, a brother, a friend, and an old rival and still change them in some magical way.
Baylan
While I've never had an experience where I've ended up crying due to a piece of music I know the feeling when something spectacular is played and you are listening to it.
I'm a bit of a student of music from a rather musical family (My step-father plays every brass instrument known to man ;), my mother is a string player/singer, and I play the saxaphone at my local high school band). The Symphonic Band at my school recently played a piece at the district festival which was literally the most beautiful thing I've ever heard performed live, the name being... urg *bang head on wall* Midnight Cry, I believe. That may have been one of the movements, and I've no idea of the composer but it was fantastic to say the least. I am a music lover and although I've never truly listened to any of the great symphonic music created by the greats (Bach, Motzart, Beethoven)) I have played some of the more recent greats such as Percy Grainger.
I'm not sure what about music I love so much, perhaps it is the fact that it is an international language. Perhaps it is the fact that it is both scientific and creative. Perhaps it is the fact that the music created by the greats, and even the not so greats, can move the hearts of people across the world whether they are from the composer's time or not; whether they are from the composer's country or not; whether or not they love music in the first place.
From the slow agonizing beat of "Hymnsong of Philip Bliss" which was written by a man after his wife and children drowned after the ship they were riding sank, to the blistering beats of Karl King or Sousa. Music is something that can be felt by a baby, a grandmother, a mother, a brother, a friend, and an old rival and still change them in some magical way.
Baylan