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isn't this sad and beautiful?
yes it is! i prefer the harpsichord version 19%  19%  [ 3 ]
yes it is! i prefer the guitar version 63%  63%  [ 10 ]
meh! i'd rather go eat some ice cream! 19%  19%  [ 3 ]
Total votes : 16

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28 Aug 2011, 1:18 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLMbNoqc62U&feature=related[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS4kL9jvzDc[/youtube]
it is a composition of Agustín Pío Barrios (also known as Agustín Barrios Mangoré, May 5, 1885 – August 7, 1944), an eminent Paraguayan guitarist and composer. the music and its title "Preludio Saudade" is meant to evoke feelings of unrequitted nostalgia for glories past and perhaps a wistful longing for that which never was and never could be. it speaks exactly of how i feel much of the time.



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28 Aug 2011, 1:29 pm

I liked the second version. It is beautiful but not really sad. At least it didn't evoke any sadness in me. Just beautiful. :)



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28 Aug 2011, 1:31 pm

keira wrote:
I liked the second version. It is beautiful but not really sad. At least it didn't evoke any sadness in me. Just beautiful. :)


i guess the piece is reflective of each listener's perspective.



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28 Aug 2011, 1:34 pm

auntblabby wrote:
keira wrote:
I liked the second version. It is beautiful but not really sad. At least it didn't evoke any sadness in me. Just beautiful. :)


i guess the piece is reflective of each listener's perspective.


Yes, I think most of the great music is. :)



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28 Aug 2011, 1:41 pm

keira wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
keira wrote:
I liked the second version. It is beautiful but not really sad. At least it didn't evoke any sadness in me. Just beautiful. :)


i guess the piece is reflective of each listener's perspective.


Yes, I think most of the great music is. :)


the eminent french composer marin marais [as illustrated in the novel/movie "tous les matins du monde"] said words to the effect, "music expresses what words cannot. music picks up where words let off."



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28 Aug 2011, 1:53 pm

You should have added a fourth poll option: "I'm too tired to care." :lol:


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28 Aug 2011, 1:58 pm

but who can be too tired to enjoy some good ol' ice cream?



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28 Aug 2011, 11:18 pm

auntblabby wrote:
keira wrote:
I liked the second version. It is beautiful but not really sad. At least it didn't evoke any sadness in me. Just beautiful. :)


i guess the piece is reflective of each listener's perspective.


Or it may depend on the degree to which the listener is describing a literal emotion. Most music that I would describe as "sad" or "melancholic" doesn't necessarily cause me to feel a negative emotion. Sure, there is a symbolic connection, but the literal feeling is more euphoric. Why else would I crave such music?

Anyways, I tend to like music written mostly or entirely in a non-major key while I get annoyed with most music that lingers in the major/"happy" key for too long. Whatever it is, I'm most attracted to music other's would describe as either "depressing" or "dissonant".



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29 Aug 2011, 12:52 am

marshall wrote:
Or it may depend on the degree to which the listener is describing a literal emotion. Most music that I would describe as "sad" or "melancholic" doesn't necessarily cause me to feel a negative emotion. Sure, there is a symbolic connection, but the literal feeling is more euphoric.


i guess the portuguese word in the title says it best- "saudade-" IOW it was meant to evoke feelings of unrequitted nostalgia for glories past and perhaps a wistful longing for that which never was and never could be- an elegiac grandness which could be euphoric to some.


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Why else would I crave such music?


due to the aforementioned euphoria but also because it is emotionally and spiritually nourishing, at least compared with the psychic junk food which comprises the lions' share of popular entertainments. just my 2-cents' worth.



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29 Aug 2011, 1:02 am

very beautiful! Out of the two, I prefer the guitar one.


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29 Aug 2011, 1:03 am

Can I have the ice cream and the music? :)


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29 Aug 2011, 1:12 am

littlelily613 wrote:
very beautiful! Out of the two, I prefer the guitar one.


the guitar version has a plaintive solitude about it, with the eloquence of the small voice in the wilderness. but the harpsichord version seems to have an self-contained archness, an intellectual reserve more intellectually emotional and less viscerally emotional, to me at least. i hope this made sense.



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29 Aug 2011, 1:16 am

TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:
Can I have the ice cream and the music? :)


but of course :)
they make a winningly delish combo, like tea and crumpets. Image



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29 Aug 2011, 1:22 am

While I like both versions, I prefer the second. It doesn't inspire any feelings, it's just a nice selection of music.



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29 Aug 2011, 1:45 am

auntblabby wrote:
TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:
Can I have the ice cream and the music? :)


but of course :)
they make a winningly delish combo, like tea and crumpets. Image


:cheers:


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29 Aug 2011, 1:45 am

johnsmcjohn wrote:
While I like both versions, I prefer the second. It doesn't inspire any feelings, it's just a nice selection of music.


interesting how music can be appreciated in multiple ways, on multiple levels. :idea: