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not one of them believes and finds solace in something beyond themselves, something larger than life that can only be expressed through notes.
I think you missed the part, or I was too subtle about it. The one song "Versions of the same" in it's musical execution connected me through everything that was the larger reality beyond self. It was the starting point. The emotional connection to the music meant I wanted to explore what the lyrics were saying. The lyrics are pretty obviously saying the exact same thing. That is what I as getting at, the music itself does 1000x more talking than the lyrics and the lyrics are pretty damn exhaustively treading in that area.
I've made no bones about claiming music is a language that contains far more ability to transfer information than words and at that it can directly make you feel the exact emotions as everyone else who hears it. This was done scientifically as they imaged the brain and found the same music excited the same parts of the brain universally, regardless of musical knowledge, perception of pitch or any other psychoacoustic phenomena. Only the rare tone deaf are incapable.
See the music thread. I think you can't do much talking if you don't understand the language and so few seem to. I mean seriously, if you can trick your ear with Melodic minor scales and the tri-tone (devil-tone) in the middle of the scale, you can obviously do it with every single pitch. There is a reason we don't have 12 pitches labelled by very singular names, we have sharps and flats because they are telling you the pitch is not the determining factor of how it sounds. Although I don't read music, that is part of it, seeing how the pitches can sound like notes that are usually not relagated to.
. It's really just a matter of opinion. People like Wagner and Beethoven had immense definitions of music which is not surprising in the least. I guess the spiritually comes into play very strongly in this thread.
