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Music

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I constantly have music playing somewhere and over the years I come to realise how much it ties me to certain aspects of my life.

We all have that song that we link to a relationship or an event that brings added meaning.

Iris by the Goo goo dolls reminds me of my relationship with my wife in a moment when things were less complex. This song has lived rent free in my head since 1998. It also in more recent years become a song about how I feel about myself And I don't want the world to see me / 'Cause I don't think that they'd understand / When everything's made to be broken / I just want you to know who I am

Creep by radiohead or Growing sideways by Noah Kahn also fit that bill.

American pie (Don Mclean and I don't want to miss a thing (Areosmith) we songs I used to sing to the kids when they were tiny.

There are songs that just creep up on my and I end up in tears, they might not have any great meaning, they just invoke a wave of emotions. Some are pretty obvious, something like Fight song by Rachel Platten which is so positive but has undertones of loss.

The other day I was listening to a random playlist and Lose yourself by Eminem came on and it just triggered something, it was the same where a video cropped up on Facebook, it was a Ministry of sound concert at the royal Albert hall, they played Toccata & Fugue in D Minor (Bach) that merge in Insomnia (Faithless), it just gave me goosebumps and then I just became overwhelmed.

I'd love to know that you all have the same relationship with music and would be willing to share your experiences.

Or am I just weird?

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  • I am listening to Handel’s opera Arminio right now. Its one of his Italian operas, and the fact I don’t understand the vocal language enables me to concentrate just on the sounds and musical language of the orchestra and soloists, I can pick out the counterpoint and structure more easily when there isn’t the distraction of simultaneously hearing a message in understandable words.

    Music is a powerful an effector on me, it can sustain a good or bad mood, change a mood up or down if choose to deliberately, but within reason. It cannot help when things are dreadful but in my quiet home it is usually very powerful. 

    Ive listened to classical music all my life, it was encouraged by my mum and dad, our family, a neighbour in our street who introduced me to the conductor Karajan. Eventually Id a sense of classical music of all eras and would try everything at least once. My favourites though are predominantly the great baroque and classical composers plus those who sit at the cusp between those two great era. eg: Vivaldi, J.S.Bach, Handel, G.P.Telemann, J.C.Bach, Carl Abel, the music of the Mannheim and Darmstadt “schools”, Haydn, Mozart, and their contemporaries. Beyond these I find much small group and solo French 19C music incredibly calming, eg: the Chopin Nocturnes, some Ravel and Debussy and Faure’s chamber music. 

    I no longer attend concerts as the crowds, the having to sit still in a chair hemmed in by others for a long time is intolerable for me. I used to attend concerts in Manchester a lot, Free Trade Hall then Bridgwater Hall plus the RNCM, but since appreciating my sensory issues am much happier just enjoying it at home. 


    Although I can read music and have a knowledge of musical history I can’t play any instruments due to my lack of fine motor skills but used to sing in a big choral society, we were based in the north west but got to sing in the Queen Elizabeth Hall on London’s South Bank once many years ago. I no longer sing, again the sensory problems of being with a host of other humans. 

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  • I am listening to Handel’s opera Arminio right now. Its one of his Italian operas, and the fact I don’t understand the vocal language enables me to concentrate just on the sounds and musical language of the orchestra and soloists, I can pick out the counterpoint and structure more easily when there isn’t the distraction of simultaneously hearing a message in understandable words.

    Music is a powerful an effector on me, it can sustain a good or bad mood, change a mood up or down if choose to deliberately, but within reason. It cannot help when things are dreadful but in my quiet home it is usually very powerful. 

    Ive listened to classical music all my life, it was encouraged by my mum and dad, our family, a neighbour in our street who introduced me to the conductor Karajan. Eventually Id a sense of classical music of all eras and would try everything at least once. My favourites though are predominantly the great baroque and classical composers plus those who sit at the cusp between those two great era. eg: Vivaldi, J.S.Bach, Handel, G.P.Telemann, J.C.Bach, Carl Abel, the music of the Mannheim and Darmstadt “schools”, Haydn, Mozart, and their contemporaries. Beyond these I find much small group and solo French 19C music incredibly calming, eg: the Chopin Nocturnes, some Ravel and Debussy and Faure’s chamber music. 

    I no longer attend concerts as the crowds, the having to sit still in a chair hemmed in by others for a long time is intolerable for me. I used to attend concerts in Manchester a lot, Free Trade Hall then Bridgwater Hall plus the RNCM, but since appreciating my sensory issues am much happier just enjoying it at home. 


    Although I can read music and have a knowledge of musical history I can’t play any instruments due to my lack of fine motor skills but used to sing in a big choral society, we were based in the north west but got to sing in the Queen Elizabeth Hall on London’s South Bank once many years ago. I no longer sing, again the sensory problems of being with a host of other humans. 

    AnA

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