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I love music. Any music. Give me a CD and I will listen to it. Anything from classical (my preferred favourite) to heavy metal. I play the cello and I have been playing for 6 years, since I was 8 years old. I am in a string ensemble at school and the Senior Orchestra at school too.
What do you love about music?
PS If you want to join a musical clan, join my clan: 'The Music Clan'.
Originally posted by pythagorasGood choice! 🙂 I am a professional cellist and music therapist. What do I love about music? Well, there are really a lot of things I love about it, but maybe the most important one is that music can express things which can't be expressed in words.
I play the cello and I have been playing for 6 years, since I was 8 years old.
Originally posted by NordlysUhm, I've never really understood classical music. Just a soup of instruments playing scales up and down all the time. But I saw the movie Amadeus a while back, and when Salieri (as an old man) speaks about the music of Mozart I suddenly felt something. I especially liked this part:
...the most important one is that music can express things which can't be expressed in words.
"On the page it was nothing. The beginning simple - almost comic. Just a pulse. Basoons and basset horns. Like a rusty squeezebox. Then suddenly, high above it, an oboe. A single note... hanging there; unwavering. Until a clarinet took it over and sweetened it into a phrase of such delight! This was no composition of a performing monkey! This was music I had never heard. Filled with such longing. Such unfulfillable longing."
That was an incredibly beautiful scene and even though the words alone doesn't really do it justice, nor does the music. They work in unison there (and of course Murray's incredible acting).
So, whereas I wouldn't really have thought the music very special on its own, those words gave it a depth and soul that I can now appreciate. Any chance anyone knows what that piece is called?
Originally posted by Nordlyswow, there's no beginning to your talents, is there? 😉
Good choice! 🙂 I am a professional cellist and music therapist. What do I love about music? Well, there are really a lot of things I love about it, but maybe the most important one is that music can express things which can't be expressed in words.
Originally posted by pythagorasReading your post made me think of Apocalyptica, it sounds like you will like them. Metal + cello = http://www.apocalyptica.com/home/index.php
I love music. Any music. Give me a CD and I will listen to it. Anything from classical (my preferred favourite) to heavy metal. I play the cello and I have been playing for 6 years, since I was 8 years old. I am in a string ensemble at school and the Senior Orchestra at school too.
What do you love about music?
PS If you want to join a musical clan, join my clan: 'The Music Clan'.
I love music its very hard to say why, maybe thats a good thing. It has a kind of energy to it thats contagious, not always energy...always a feeling, a mood.
Originally posted by stockenPhilistine! 😛
Uhm, I've never really understood classical music. Just a soup of instruments playing scales up and down all the time.
But I saw the movie Amadeus a while back, and when Salieri (as an old man) speaks about the music of Mozart I suddenly felt something.
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So, whereas I wouldn't really have thought the music very special on its own, those words gave it a depth and soul that I can now appreciate. Any chance anyone knows what that piece is called?
I saw the film when it came out, which was about 20 years ago, I think. I don't remember very much of it, so I don't know what piece Salieri was talking about. The Requiem was very prominent in the film, so maybe he was talking about that.
You can often hear people say that music is a universal language, understood by everybody. I don't believe that's true. It's true that some music which is totally alien to me (e.g. classical Indian music) can be intriguing and pleasant to listen to, but if you really want to understand it, you need to have learned that "language", or you need an explanation which gives you some idea what to listen to. So words can certainly help you understand the music better.
Originally posted by EdwardipovI guess the beginning to my talents would be my birth. 😉 Anyway, the musical talent lies in the family, all my four siblings are professional musicians, too. And my other talents are hardly worth mentioning, it's mostly bluff.
wow, there's no beginning to your talents, is there? 😉
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Originally posted by NordlysUnless its Opera🙂
Good choice! 🙂 I am a professional cellist and music therapist. What do I love about music? Well, there are really a lot of things I love about it, but maybe the most important one is that music can express things which can't be expressed in words.
Hey Nord, are you going to enter a cello piece in our little music
competition? I am trying to get Pathag to do a piece.
Originally posted by sonhouseWell, if you think that the music in an opera only expresses the same as the words, you could just drop the music. Much cheaper, and you also wouldn't have to listen to those awful opera singers. 😉
Unless its Opera🙂
Hey Nord, are you going to enter a cello piece in our little music
competition? I am trying to get Pathag to do a piece.
Pathag = Pythagoras?
As I said in the competition thread, I'll try to enter something, but I am not sure yet whether it'll work out. It's quite a challenge, as I mostly play music written by others, which isn't allowed in the competition. And I haven't been able to play much at all lately. But at least I remembered to take the minidisk player from my office home today, so I am ready to record.