Music Club: Ouverture (Term XXII Activity #01)

[flyingharmony.livejournal.com]

Activity: Ouverture
Points: Long debate: Participation 10pts, Additional comment: 2pts, 30pts limit.
Deadline: Submit your answers by Monday, April 30th @ 22:59 UTC (timezone converter).
Details: New club leader, new luck, don't they say? Let's start with discussing a fundamental question: Music. We all love music, at least we who joined the music club. But what does music mean? Can we define music like we can define physical laws? What does music mean to us, how does it influence our lives, our thinking, etc? There's lots of material for discussions. As always, you'll get ten points for your initial comment (which should be at least 100-150 words long) and two more for each additional comment (I'm not giving you any limits for this, but please, show that you've put some thought and effort in it, just saying "I agree/don't agree" isn't enough) with a limit of 30 points as a total.

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Note #2: As always, please don't forget to sign each comment with your name&house and to check if you're on the roster - there will be no grace periods!

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. Victor Hugo recommends you to join the Club.

Comments

[lotrangel17.livejournal.com]

Music is vital and very influential to peoples lives. A song or a lyric can bring back a memory whether it be a strong memory or one we want to forget. When we are babies we are sung lullabies by our parents, when we are children we dance around the room and act crazy, when we are married our first dance and our dance with our father/mother is a memory that lasts a lifetime, the song that is played at our funeral whether we be a person from New Orleans with jazz or an cop and the haunting song of the bagpipes.

Music is a very strong part of my life as well. I always have music playing whether it be on my laptop on last fm or on the tv on the music channels. I play cds on the way to and from school for my kids so we can sing songs together. The hymns that we sing in Mass can bring tears to my eyes they are so moving and inspirational. No one is immune to the Amazing Grace and the memories it invokes from hearing it played at a funeral. I hope that I can pass on to my children my love of music the way I have my love of books.

Steph//Puff//216 words

[anbyrobanby.livejournal.com]

It's quite interesting how you tie in memory to music- because often people do say the two things are fairly closely intertwined. I know I find certain songs remind me of certain people, memories, and events.... yet it's rarely overwhelming.
I like the way you mention how music connects with one's culture, too. I think this is one thing that underlies our human experience: similar, yet different.

Rob//Gryffindor

[slumber.livejournal.com]

One of the things I really enjoyed about the Hunger Games series was actually the way it used music. I think it handled it with authenticity, how there were songs that their parents sang and whose words and melodies came to them long after they last heard them. It was used also as a reflection of their culture. I think there's a reason the scenes with songs touched a chord in most readers. (I have no idea if you've read it or not so I'm trying to be as vague as possible, lol.)

Evy/Claw

[slumber.livejournal.com]

This is fairly true-- I tend to associate music with a lot of different memories. I think one of the biggest examples for me is listening to church songs. I went to a Catholic school where we regularly held mass and a big part of those were the songs that we sung. For the major milestones in our lives (first communion, confirmation, graduations, etc) we would spend hours of our days singing songs over and over again. I am not the most religious person in the world (nor am I its best singer) but I loved singing those songs. I was always with my friends and we always had fun and sometimes when we went on long road trips we amused ourselves by singing various church songs and working on the blending for them. There's just something completely calming and soothing with singing them again, all these years later.

Evy/Claw