Former Times Music

metaw3 wrote:

mudra wrote:Do you still hear it at times ?

It's probably what I'll have on my mind when I die.

That's where Life begins metaw

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mudra

Samuel Barber: Agnus Dei

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vkduZs3ZPA


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Arvo Part Quotes

I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener.
Arvo Part

Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God.


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Gabriel Fauré - Sicilienne, for cello & piano, Op. 78

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5Y0uQLgriA


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Pavane by Gabriel Faure for two guitars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_bq-nmzuP4


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Ave Maria Schubert Liszt Valentina Lisitsa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCucnn-95nY


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The Story of One Man's Profound Near Death Experience - P1/2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2_K-NlEjBk


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3 beautiful slow movements from Bach's sonatas for violin and harpsichord:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYcGoCgaI4Y


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRocUsjNESQ


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao052Z5Eal4

Lovely pieces metaw.
Thank You



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Glen Gould playing the Goldberg variations

The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, is a work for harpsichord by Johann Sebastian Bach, consisting of an aria and a set of 30 variations. First published in 1741, the work is considered to be one of the most important examples of variation form. The Variations are named after Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, who may have been the first performer.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6984208089899995423

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My late friend, Dan Davis, did the PR for Eartha Kitt's last public appearance on History Makers, during Black History Month. Shortly after the recording, she died. Dan got sick and died during negotiations with Smokey Robinson. Sigh. This was one of his favorites. As I have said, he went out in gay nirvana on morphine, thinking he had to get Donna Summer ready for a show.

It can be so hard to escape the matrix when:

Thank You HigherLove .
I like to think that up there in the Heavens Eartha Kitt still sings for Dan now and then.



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Sirena Huang: Dazzling set by 11-year-old violinist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yOXsK5-SFY


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THE STORY BEHIND GOD'S CRICKET CHORUS

Created by Jim Wilson, this enchanting recording contains two tracks: the natural sounds of chirping crickets, and the crickets played several octaves lower.

Though it may sound like a synthesizer or a chorus singing; it's the crickets themselves slowed way down, creating the effect of a choir of human voices. The sound created is a simple diatonic 7-note scale chord progression and melody with a multi-layered structure.

The recording can be played continuously in the background to create a natural soothing atmosphere for peace, serenity, and healing direct from Mother Nature.

Choir of the Crickets



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Capricho Arabe ( Tarrega) - Christopher Parkening

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppxCK_cgSy4


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Albeniz - Asturias
Filomena Moretti

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x92elt_albeniz-asturias_music


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Filomena Moretti-Bach - Suite en sol mineur BWV 995 1/2

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x91xx1_01-bach-suite-en-sol-mineur-bwv-995_music


Filomena Moretti-Bach - Suite en sol mineur BWV 995 1/2


https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x91yky_02-bach-suite-en-sol-mineur-bwv-995_music


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Bach - Organ Works - DVD1.avi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgDMxs4aHZU


Bach - Organ Works - DVD2.avi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iUBdU8Xp40


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Joshua Bell "Stop and Hear the Music" by the Washington Post

This is an incredibly sad story which gave me chills. It is a social experiment about perception, taste and priorities of people.
A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning.
He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that thousands of people went through the station, most of them on their way to work.Three minutes went by and a middle aged man noticed there was musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds and then hurried up to meet his schedule.A minute later, the violinist received his first dollar tip: a woman threw the money in the till and without stopping continued to walk.A few minutes later, someone leaned against the wall to listen to him, but the man looked at his watch and started to walk again. Clearly he was late for work.
The one who paid the most attention was a 3 year old boy. His mother tagged him along, hurried but the kid stopped to look at the violinist. Finally the mother pushed hard and the child continued to walk turning his head all the time. This action was repeated by several other children. All the parents, without exception, forced them to move on.
In the 45 minutes the musician played, only 6 people stopped and stayed for a while. About 20 gave him money but continued to walk their normal pace.
He collected $32.
When he finished playing and silence took over, no one noticed it.
No one applauded, nor was there any recognition.
No one knew this but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the best musicians in the world. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written with a violin worth 3.5 million dollars.
Two days before his playing in the subway, Joshua Bell sold out at a theater in Boston and the seats average $100.
Joshua Bell playing incognito in the metro station was organized by the Washington Post as part of an social experiment about perception, taste and priorities of people. The outlines were: in a commonplace environment at an inappropriate hour: Do we perceive beauty? Do we stop to appreciate it? Do we recognize the talent in an unexpected context?
One of the possible conclusions from this experience could be:
If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world playing the best music ever written, how many other things are we missing?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myq8upzJDJc


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Reich explains: Daniel Variations is in four movements using texts from the Biblical book of Daniel for the first and third movements and from the words of Daniel Pearl, the American Jewish reporter, kidnapped and murdered by Islamist extremists in Pakistan in 2002, for the second and fourth movements. The texts/movements are:

1. I saw a dream. Images upon my bed & visions in my head frightened me (Daniel 4:2, or 4:5 in Christian translations)
2. My name is Daniel Pearl (I'm a Jewish American from Encino, California)
3. Let the dream fall back on the dreaded (Daniel 4:16, or 4:19 in Christian translations)
4. I sure hope Gabriel likes my music, when the day is done.

The piece is scored for two sopranos and two tenors with two B-flat clarinets, four vibes, bass and kick drums, tam-tam, four pianos, and string quartet. It was co-commissioned by the Barbican Centre in London, Carnegie Hall in New York, CitÈ de la Musique in Paris, Casa de Musica in Porto, Portugal, and in memory of Daniel Pearl by an anonymous donor in association with Meet The Composer and the Daniel Pearl Foundation, which is dedicated to cross-cultural understanding and music. Daniel Variations was premiered at the Barbican in London in 2006 as part of Steve Reich's 70th birthday celebration.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAyzM9fqYkU


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YFMKo5CR7g&feature=youtube_gdata

Where is the other long thread with popular music? I wanted to post this modern fugue there:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlRdBf4hR3g

edit: Never mind I found it.

Milstein Plays Corelli's La Folia Variations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGET78mPMCA


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Sacred, Beautiful, & Universal (Full Movie)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu5N_EOC0Qc


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"Spiritual Development by the aid of music"

Music is a miniature of the harmony of the whole universe, for the harmony of the universe is life itself, and humans, being a miniature of the universe, show harmonious and inharmonious chords in their pulsations, in the beat of their hearts, in their vibration, rhythm and tone. Their health or illness, their joy or discomfort, all show the music or lack of music in their life.

And what does music teach us? Music helps us to train ourselves in harmony, and it is this which is the magic or the secret behind music. When you hear music that you enjoy, it tunes you and puts you in harmony with life. Therefore we need music; we long for music. Many say that they do not care for music, but these have not heard music. If they really heard music; it would touch their souls, and then certainly they could not help loving it. If not, it would only mean that they had not heard music sufficiently, and had not made their heart calm and quiet in order to listen to it, and to enjoy and appreciate it. Besides music develops that faculty by which one learns to appreciate all that is good and beautiful in the form of art and science, and in the form of music and poetry one can then appreciate every aspect of beauty.

What deprives us of all the beauty around us is his heaviness of body or heaviness of heart. We are pulled down to earth, and by that everything becomes limited; but when we shake off that heaviness and joy comes, we feel light. All good tendencies such as gentleness and tolerance, forgiveness, love and appreciation, all these beautiful qualities come by being light; light in the mind, in the soul, and in the body.

What is wonderful about music is that it helps us to concentrate or mediate independently of thought - and therefore music seems to be the bridge over the gulf between form and the formless. If there is anything intelligent, effective and at the same time formless, it is music. Poetry suggests form, line and colour suggest form, but music suggests no form. It creates also that resonance which vibrates through the whole being, lifting the thought above the denseness of matter; it almost turns matter into spirit, into its original condition, through the harmony of vibrations touching every atom of one's whole being.

Beauty of line and colour can go so far and no further; the joy of fragrance can go a little further; but music touches our innermost being and in that way produces new life, a life that gives exaltation to the whole being, raising it to that perfection in which lies the fulfillment of our life.

Hazrat Inayat Khan
excerpted from The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan, Vol II

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Sitar and Tabla 1-1 Raga:SUHA-KANARA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKU4GJSCBEY


Sitar : Sri Manilal Nag
Tabla : Pandit Mahaprush Misra
Tambula : Sachiko Torii

Our tradition teaches us that sound is God - "Nada Brahma". That is, musical sound and the musical experience are steps to the realization of the self. We view music as a kind of spiritual discipline that raise one's inner being to divine peacefulness and bliss. We are taught that one of the fundamental goals a Hindu works toward in his lifetime is a knowledge of the true meaning of the universe-its unchanging, eternal essence-and this is realized first by a complete knowledge of one's self and one's own nature. The highest aim of our music is to reveal the essence of the universe it reflects,and the ragas are among the means by which this essence can be apprehended.
Thus, through music, one can reach God.

- Ravi Shankar

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