Music & Emotions

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That first track, I've never heard anything like it! It is exciting, epically exciting, and don't let the name fool you.

That second track isn't nearly so epic IMHO. It's beauty, tinged with sadness.

I love those chills and how individual parts of songs really strike a chord with me. There are also symphonic bands that combine epic orchestral music with guitars, which are awesome too.
SharkSandwich211, While Heaven Wept is, or was, a very talented progressive rock band. Also, I found your paper interesting.

I don't think that emotions generated by music are universal though. People's emotional responses to the same piece differ. Also, I love music most when I feel like the musicians are expressing my feelings, like they would understand me on some level.

I also agree with Racheypie about using music as a catharsis.

I am amazed that nobody else has mentioned Stendahl's Syndrome, that is an ages old phenomemon where any strong exposure to extreme beauty in either visual or aural form, causes an overload of the emotional circuits, kinda like somebody turned on in my brain, all the emotions, the full gamut, all at once, full blast. I choke up, turn red, sweat and tear up/weep, gasp/pant/moan, when exposed to certain beautiful bits of music. William Wilde Zeitler's glass armonica music does it for me.

I like "Rites of Spring" by Igor Stravinsky.

Why did he become a conservative later on in his life?

probably because he got wealthy. the wealthier one is the more conservative they tend to be.

another Zeitler masterpiece-

That emotional reaction sounds really, really powerful! Do you try and avoid it, or stay in the moment to be aware as the emotion builds? Or do you just accept it and ride out the storm? Or a combination?

Zeitler's music is peaceful, yet there's emotion there that I can't quite identify, maybe wistfulness?

Oh, and I can't get that Starvation song out of my head! Did you find it because of Doctor Who?

like wistfulness on steroids, a good alternate term which is more encompassing, is the Paraguayan term "saudade" which refers to a deep longing for a restoration of something deeply cherished yet so far in the past that one's memory is but a subtle shadow, IOW one longs for something that may no longer exist or may be gone to the mists of time, forever. anyways, I ride it out in much the same manner as aficionados of hot spicy food savor the agony.

Chicks would kill for a man who knows about Paraguayan Blues.

I know nothing of the blues of any stripe, but I do know about Agustín Pio Barrios Mangoré, who composed "preludio saudade" which expresses this feeling in a palpable way-

I consider this sort of stuff a form of "blues"---even if it's not American blues.

I guess one big difference is that it doesn't make light of the "blues" situation, like American blues.

You've probably heard the Portuguese "Fado."

have heard fado in passing, am more familiar with the other Portuguese language music, "bossa nova." on that subject, here is the late agostinho dos santos performing (behind the lip-syncing soccer star/actor breno mello) "manha de carnaval" in the movie "orfeu negro" in 1959-

that movie was a trip, highly recommended.

I like "The Girl from Ipanema" very much.

Bossa Nova was a pretty dominant musical motif during the late 50s-early 60s. Even the Beatles had it in at least one of their songs. I think it's called "And I love her" or something like that.

yes, thank you for reminding me of that beatles gem another version of Manha is by the inimitable elizeth cardoso-

Another one. I think I like this so much as I associate it with the movie 'Alive' which had an emotional affect on me when I was younger as it's the end theme.

Listen to that voice!!

Saudade, that's such a good word, and that Paraguayan song expresses some of that. As for riding out the agony, I'm amazed you'd do that voluntarily, as it sounds worse than my worst panic attack.

having been exposed to some intense things when younger girded me. or at least, it reduced my resistance to just letting it flow through me.