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teeja | 12 years ago

Well said!

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graycat|12 years ago

Thanks. Not just everyone will understand what I wrote. Many readers will need to listen to the YouTube piece, and for the first few times through that music will be a challenge for many readers.

Glad you 'got it'. It's not really psychology but just Art 101. E.g., there's a good reason Wagner wrote that music; it's been darned effective for well over 100 years; lots of people 'get it', enough to keep opera companies going around the world.

"You mean you can make such sounds with a symphony orchestra?"

"Yes, Virginia!".

The music can sound like what it feels like to have a great loss, a dear child, a loved spouse, a company founded that failed, a case of cancer, and much more. Great losses are so common that the music can 'reach' nearly everyone in a large audience.