What classicaI song/piece transforms your imagination or brings you to a specific(or reoccurring)place in your mind?
There are some pieces of music that you listen to with your eyes closed and for that moment your imagination might visit an idea, or a place lets say a wet stone street in paris, or the way your glass of water took in the light as you sat at a cafe off the coast of spain, or an old lover from a long forgotten dream. When you hear this music where does it take you? And what is the piece that does all of this for you? Share.
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The 1812 Overture. A powerful piece which helps me find the courage to go on even when I might be considering giving up.
Whenever I hear a certain part of Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto #3, I am always reminded of the Harry Potter movies, specifically a scene where they are running down towards Hagrid’s hut. That in turn makes me think back to all those rainy days that I spent reading those books and all the fond memories I have of it. I’ve always tried to go back to those moments but can never quite get back there. But I can always get close with this piece.
Dvorak’s Americana Quartet evokes pictures of early America for me.
Handel’s Water Music makes me think of Fireworks.
Claude Debussy’s “Clair de Lune” takes me to an evening at the train station, but the experience listening to the music for me is less about the place that it transports me to and more about the abstract scenario my imagination constructs. The beginning of the movement conveys this feeling of realizing one is in love at the wrong time, and the music from there seems to trace the path bringing the couple together. The ending definitely evokes clasped hands and smiles.
It’s not a classical piece, but Dave Brubeck’s “Koto Song” takes me to Christmas a few years ago. The night was cold and there were golden lights glittering on either side of the empty streets. My friend said, “I feel like I’m in a movie. I’m in my movie.”
Welcome to Fluther, @FlutherMore. What a wonderful first question :)
I so love Postcards from Far Away by Coldplay—it’s a 45 second piano piece, and every time I listen to it my mind finds something, or someplace, new.
I also love Small by Twine… it’s not really “classical” but it’s not pop…. When I hear it I feel like I’m sitting on a porch swing listening to the rain and looking out to countryside.
Many from Tchaikovsky’s the Nutcracker. Brings me back to childhood. We went to see The Nutcracker at Lincoln Center in NYC every year when I was little. Nothing like seeing it NY.
Many. Most. Music affects me visually as well as aurally, and I have been a classical music lover since early childhood. The first piece that I vividly remember as having a strong effect on me was Wagner’s “The Ride of the Valkyries,” which I asked to hear over and over when I was three.
I hear music in color, sometimes in abstract forms or recurring patterns of imagery and sometimes in literal scenes, the latter especially if the music itself is very pictorial, such as the Peer Gynt suite, Die Moldau, or La Mer. If it’s music from an opera that I’ve seen, I usually picture the scene in which it occurs. But some music, such as that of Erik Satie, just gives me watercolor washes in certain tines, with very little line.
@marinelife, how about Handel’s Royal Fireworks Music?
“Ride of the Valkyries” is definitely intense, but a bit hair-raising for my taste. : )
You seem very converstan with the classics. That’s rare in this day and age.
In the hall of the mountain king takes me back to when I lost my virginity. Ahh those adolescent fumblings, building to a crescendo of barely imagined pleasures. Happy days :¬)
I recently got into Dvorak’s American quartet
William Tell Overture, The 1812, and Arirang performed by the NY Philharmonic
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