I love music. I love it a lot.
So much can be expressed and experienced by the power of music. I am so grateful for the various influences in my life who have opened avenue after avenue of appreciating the power of the song. Just when I think I’ve got it, someone refers me to another tune and I am sent to another beautiful place altogether.
It is not every genre that gets me going, but there are quite a few. It is one of the delights in life to listen to good music. I am one of those people who can do work to music – writing, laundry, data management, reading, eating (not all at the same time though) – all of that and more are ably assisted by some decent selection of tunes to help the work truck on merrily.
Music is a broad and diverse soundscape. Understandably, the music lover will want to learn all the chords and then see all the great things that can be done with orchestral arrangements or synthesised journeys through amazing scopes of sound. Getting into all of that and being able to produce pieces of music that people will marvel and applaud at because of its ingenuity. Yeah – that’s good.
Yet for all its variety, there can be something very appealing about the simple song. A couple of notes together put together in a basic rhythm and taking just a couple of minutes to express itself. Memorable, catchy and lingering in the mind decades after its first heard. That song with that lyric that conveyed it all without requiring a dictionary to understand what was said or having to truck through many verses.
There’s definitely a place to celebrate and enjoy something like that.
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Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
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