Music is the most abstract phenomenon known
to man ( after women that is.)
Music has curious attributes. Music played
in a major key is funky and cheerful.
Minor keys tend to be melancholic and dreamy.
Major seventh chords are tense and nervy.
Music is emotional.
Music is abstract. The emotions are abstract.
When we feel emotions we are actually feeling
nothing but abstraction. If you remember
only one thing from these pages, please remember
this: health complications aside, it is
an abstract matter whether one feels happy
or sad. Life can be lived by playing major
chords or by playing minor chords. It takes
practice to learn a new key, but in the end,
one is free to choose the key of the song
one plays. That principle is a cornerstone
of " The meaning, life, eden, god, theology".
Listening to relentlessly happy music, like
eating too much sugar, is usually a mistake.
Listen to happy songs and, before one knows
it, one feels down. Melancholic music can
be uplifting. Life is never simple!
Dancing to music is hardwired into the most
primitive and ancient parts of our brains.
When we hear a beat, signals are automatically
sent by the deep brain to our muscles. Cavemen
boogied the Conga. Dancing is instinct.
Even when we speak we speak in musical keys.
Everything about us is musical: our language,
our emotions and our movements. Our brains
are orchestras. Everything we think and everything
we do is music.
Music is the key to unlocking the secrets
of who we are. We have the key but we don't
know how to turn it. Several have come close,
geniuses like Mozart, Beethoven, and, closest
of all, Johann Sebastian Bach.
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