All of a sudden I'm deeply into opera and waltzes? And lately I'll take all the c major I can get, actually. Mildly odd, but I do tend to travel across the musical spectrum a lot. This trauma is manifesting interestingly musically, and I don't mind it at all. It's wonderful, like a sort of rebirth. Engaging with things I have zero emotional baggage connected to is nice. These harmonies are absolutely KILLING me, in the best possible way.
Today I am very grateful for music. What a wonderful sense it is, to hear. R was deaf in one ear. I am grateful to hear in stereo. What a treat music is... How fortunate to be alive, to listen to something so beautifully composed.
When I listen, I think, this is a perfect thing... which gives the sensation of there being a mystical order to things... These soundwaves... What are they? Why do they have this magical effect on us and our feelings? There are patterns and structures that feel like a small puzzle piece of the interconnectedness of the universe, a piece of the dna of all of life itself.
11-6-2022 Update: So apparently the ancients had this theory called Musica universalis, or Music of the Spheres, and I didn't hear about it until just now for some reason. I actually stumbled across it by accident today, how odd. The ancients hypothesized the planets make sound that we can't perceive, and they turned out to be right about that. They did advanced mathematical formulas that indicate that musical harmony is part of some sort of larger universal pattern involving the planets and cosmos.
Wikipedia says: "The musica universalis (literally universal music), also called music of the spheres or harmony of the spheres, is a philosophical concept that regards proportions in the movements of celestial bodies – the Sun, Moon, and planets – as a form of music. The theory, originating in ancient Greece, was a tenet of Pythagoreanism, and was later developed by 16th-century astronomer Johannes Kepler. Kepler did not believe this "music" to be audible, but felt that it could nevertheless be heard by the soul. The idea continued to appeal to scholars until the end of the Renaissance, influencing many schools of thought, including humanism."
WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME ABOUT THIS?
10:40 p.m. - 2022-11-05