music that made you cry

[Count Duckula]

I fell in love with (Bach's?) Pachelbel's Canon while on a search for sound for last fall's theater production. I found a nice 8-minute version done by Issac somebody, variations on a theme.

Yesterday at work, while shelving CDs, I came across a CD with no booklet. Usually we pages send those up to cataloguing to try and reunite the missing parts. But this CD had Pachelbel's Canon too. The version I found for the play was missing the last 20 seconds or so. I wanted a full version for myself.

I popped it into the CD player of my car. For the entire 12-minute drive home, I was literally sobbing. Beautiful! Like the piano melody passed right through my soul, mending tears and holes I didn't know I had. I don't know the last time anything, much less music, made me feel so overwhelmed with awe and joy.

Anybody have any similar experiences they want to share?




(AUTHOR'S NOTE: This post was a clever ploy designed to let Lurkers know that Ducky--and more importantly, the Diablo History Project--are still alive. Ducky is hand-coding it with real HTML in her spare time! Gasp! While whining about her writing career and picking away at game guides and fanfic and coffeeshop poetry and who knows what else, she still works on the history. Double gasp. ;))

Ah, how I love to drop a topic and run! :D

My mother played the piano. She was a master--at least, to a young child. My fondest memories are hitting the higher notes on the upright piano while she was playing something complex. It's a wonder I lived to see (young) adulthood. I can play a fair bit, myself.

To me, pianos and violins evoke powerful tear-filled emotion. Seven Nations has a beautiful piano piece, 1/4 of a larger work, that makes me want to take lessons again. I'm okay with saxophones. My sister used to play one. Badly. :(

I love Sarah MacLachlan. "Full of Grace" is a sweet song. "Possession" gets me every time. "Adia" wants me to rip out her vocal cords. It's a real love/hate relationship.

Trans-Siberian Orchestra does a version of Carol of the Bells with a little help from Metallica. It's the Matrix Christmas special! :D

My favorite U2 song has always been and will always be "Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For." Probably because I can sing the melody and everyone else I know can harmonize.

The 1812 Overature makes me feel like I can conquer the universe.

VanDiablo: are you thinking of Clapton's "Tears in Heaven" by any chance? That's one of the few Clapton songs I don't like.

I also never met a Rolling Stones song I didn't like.

Emotional movie: the Dead Poets Society leaves me in tears every single time I watch it. I try and see it just about every month. If a movie sucks me in, I'll cry. Heck, the first time I saw 1776, I cried. :P And Hugh Grant movies stink. Is that because Hugh Grant stinks? Who knows.

TaiDaishar: I was in a similar situation myself. Everyone who's seen the movie Shrek knows the "melancholy montage" song from near the end of the movie? The soundtrack has the same song, but doesn't have the same singer. I scrounged around, and finally found "Hallelujah" by John Cale. Even the writer of the song doesn't come close. I sobbed over the Canon...and buckets over Hallelujah.

VanDiablo: PLEASE don't tell me that movie is All Dogs Go to Heaven! PLEASE! (I might have to join you in your shame.)

Wakim: Thanks for the enlightenment. :P

I finally saw Shawshank when TNT showed it. I liked it so much that I rented it the next day. I liked the movie the same way I liked Schindler's List--it's well-done, doesn't cheapen anything, and they're feelgood movies in a macabre sort of way. In all the tragedy, something good and true and right happened.

Jeunemaitre: I'm more afraid of when Nanny dusts the piano, and accidently drops it. :P

I never heard Waltzing Matilda with any sincerity, so I hunted through the library's music collection for a serious version. It's on hold at another branch, and should be on its way here.

I recently heard the Sheryl Crow/Kid Rock song, whatever it's called. I hope a certain someone's taking notes...we can match the ranges... ;)

Kandrathe: I've never been able to really listen to November Rain after breaking up with a sig other who loved that song. Isn't it strange how you can't really listen to music that meant something to an ex?

(Now that this post has gone all over the place, I'm running into HTML troubles. Seems what I want to do and what I can figure out to do are two different things. And typing the original text in Word didn't help--it adds junk characters like nobody's business. I installed Arachnophilia and found a copy of HTML for Dummies. Wish me luck.)