Guest guest Posted August 10, 2001 Report Share Posted August 10, 2001 - Susanna Gandolf NondualitySalon Friday, August 10, 2001 1:27 PM [NDS] Music Another forward, askew vis-a-vis "topic"... even so:"Why do we care about singers? Wherein lies the power of songs? Maybe it derives from the sheer strangeness of there being singing in the world. The note, the scale, the chord; melodies, harmonies, arrangements; symphonies, ragas, Chinese operas, jazz, the blues: that such things should exist, that we should have discovered the magical intervals and distances that yield the poor cluster of notes, all within the span of a human hand, from which we can build our cathedrals of sounds, is as alchemical a mystery as mathematics, or wine, or love. Maybe the birds taught us. Maybe not. Maybe we are just creatures in search of exaltation. We don't have much of it. Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many painful ways deficient. Song turns them into something else. Songs shows us a worldthat is worthy of our yearning, it shows our selves as they might be, if we were worthy of the world."from "The Ground Beneath Her Feet"by Salman Rushdie_______________Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.aspTo from this mailing list, send email to:<NondualitySalon>Leave body of message blank. Your use of is subject to Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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