i'm listening to a variety of classical music right now. well, i suppose after taking my music class this past spring, i can't in good mind call it "classical" since what i'm listening to really ranges from the romantic period (Chopin's Nocturne in C# minor) to, what i would imagine is, the modern period (movie scores from Pan's Labyrinth, Narnia, and Pride & Prejudice).
*sigh*
it never ceases to amaze me how truly beautiful music can be. isn't it fantastic and yet utterly bizarre to think that something as seemingly simple as an arrangement of varying pitches and tones can make you feel such an enormous range of emotions?
i mean, just from my own meager point of view, i have felt anywhere from ecstatic to utterly melancholy & heartbroken when listening to a song. and sometimes these mixed emotions can be derived from the same song! it's crazy! and then, to think that music can trigger certain things in one's brain and memory is even crazier!
it's like when God is talking to Job about creation and says that "the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy". CS Lewis used that idea of music being used at the world's creation and transfered it to Narnia where Aslan sings the world into existance. maybe it's just the music nerd in me, but that would be a phenomally cool way to create the world and would help explain why music has such an awesome influence on our brains.
though one thing's for sure, it makes me curious as to what it might sound like to hear angels and stars sing. it blows my mind even trying to grasp at how powerfully and magnificently beautiful that's going to sound.
alright, i'm done geeking out about music for now. hope my rambling didn't bore you too much. to whom it may concern, enjoy your first day of school! and to everyone else, enjoy your last few weeks of summer!
"Then I looked and heard the voice of many angels, numbering thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand. They encircled the throne and the living creatures and the elders.
In a loud voice they sang:
“Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise!”
Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them, singing:
“To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power, for ever and ever!”
The four living creatures said, “Amen,” and the elders fell down and worshiped."
revelations 5:11-14
amen and amen.
mjl.
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