[Know-the-Ledge]

Does anybody enjoy classical music? I love the dark, depressing haunting melodys, that just remind me of slow rain-drops falling on a beautiful pond making ripples whilst I sit by on a bench lost in my thoughts. Chopin is great for this. The reason I have put this in the poetry section, is because this really is poetry without the word.


When this finishes, I just be ready to die. Just ready to go...




It has to be late night, dark, blaring in the ears through earphones, but this one can not be enjoyed without a cheap cigar:





Does any body else enjoy discovering more layers of their soul?

[Know-the-Ledge]

Ofcourse this is probably the most famous piece ever written, a man standing in a crowd, laughing and engaging in high-jinks, but then goes home on his own lonely...he was always lonely, even when he made love to all those people he was lonely:

This post has been edited by Know-The-Ledge: 24 January 2012 - 02:00 PM

[Fatema-the-resplendent]

loved the first one, there is something in music which has meaning. Music allows me to channel my feelings while evoking feeling deep within me that is nameless; i'll call it longing.

Maybe we all long for him (God) that's why we are not truly ever satisfied.

There is piano and what other instrument in the first one? Violin?

[FSA]

Salaam

Sometimes some pieces of music may do nothing for you on their own (if one doesn't know the context/story being told). Other times the same piece used in movies in particular scenes etc can be striking and become etched in ones mind.

Moonlight Sonata also has a sinister/psycho feel to it.

I remember the Moonlight Sonata used in the Shadowman game intro as one of the baddies of the game Jack the Ripper introduces himself:

Watch from after 1min 35 sec till just after 4 min.



Salaam

[Snoop]

A friend of mine told me that the reason we like music, children especially. is because it reminds our spirit/soul/ruh of the time in Aalam e Arwa where Allah spoke to us and we said labbayk. We sway (some not as rhythmically as others i must say!) because it reminds us of His melodious voice and it stirs something inside that we can't quite put a finger on. Love it

[Know-the-Ledge]

Fatema-the-resplendent, on 24 January 2012 - 04:12 PM, said:

loved the first one, there is something in music which has meaning. Music allows me to channel my feelings while evoking feeling deep within me that is nameless; i'll call it longing.

Maybe we all long for him (God) that's why we are not truly ever satisfied.

There is piano and what other instrument in the first one? Violin?

It's a Cello, has a much heavier sound than violins, they sound thin and tinny. I totally agree with you about feelings and how they are stirred. That's why I said with the first one I be 'ready' to die (now 'want' lal) just ready to go back to God. Fatema there's many with the Cellos which I think you'll like; but these pieces i've posted are old, there are modern takes too, have you head anime? It's awesome and I think anime is a better type of 'soul music', listen to the following, it's got a heavy violin in it and again, the mood has to be right, but see if you like this

Snoop FSA - I agree with you both, there has to be depth in our thoughts and feelings which are then evoked. I just love the place this type of classical music takes me to.

This post has been edited by Know-The-Ledge: 25 January 2012 - 12:22 PM

[Snoop]

I have no idea what is being said but this blows me away....I heard it in the background whilst watching The Blessed Tree...

[Snoop]

I also know of some of someone who used to play saxophone a long time ago. He gave up playing because it wasn't bringing him any closer to Allah. However, he has started playing again BUT to the tune of dhikr and some well known naats/nasheeds....I think its great. I'll see if I can find some recordings

[Know-the-Ledge]

Awesome. I'll tell you a little trick, play this and the one i've posted above "never meant to belong" one at the same time. it creates an awesome affect.




Back to classical Beethoven. Fur Elise Divine Notes ofcourse, you'll all know this

This post has been edited by Know-The-Ledge: 25 January 2012 - 12:24 PM

[Fatema-the-resplendent]

KTL

I think you are wrong about the Violin, incidentally one of my favourite instruments because it speaks.

Listen to this,(Violin) it's beautiful especially from 1.10 onwards...

[Know-the-Ledge]

Oi you wow! You know exactly what I like; like I said anything that's haunting and melodious, sombre I absolutely love love love. I love this thread, I don't like when violins are too jaunty and spritely, they tend to be too 'tinny', but then I don't like that type. Anyway listen to this, it's another violin-i one by beethoven, it's beauuuuuuutfulllllll a personal one, very personal to me






It just makes my soul cry with something indescribable.

[Desert-Sheikh]

I haven't listened to your tracks yet but I would like to share two of my favorite tracks.

Pakistani musicians without any formal education in music (old-men wearing shalwar-qameez) composing the great haunting melodies.



KTL, this is for you. A great track by Barış Manço, a great turkish musician.


At 1:00, it literally starts crying but gets soothing towards the end.

[Snoop]

This thread is infectious!!!

One of my favourite songs without the words......jee oi bava!

[Know-the-Ledge]

Lightning strikes an electric substation on the outskirts of the City. It's a cold cloudy night of January as darkness blankets the city with it's shade of gloom.
Disorder spreads like a seasonal stomach bug. A faint noise of a car alarm going off. A cat's meow. A fox cry's. A train passing by somewhere in the distance with that continuous rhythm. The world sleeps, disappearing into the unknown.
But one man is falling in love with the lights out, with the darkness.
Insomnia wasn't a condition for him, it was a means to escape. An escape into the peaceful realm of silence and tranquillity.
As he cushioned on that serenity cacophonous notes lay dormant waiting for a perfect moment to thunder down and stir his soul, so he could reach within and discover depth, a nameless feeling he eventually found best described as 'longing' (ref: ftr).

This post has been edited by Know-The-Ledge: 25 January 2012 - 02:51 PM

[Know-the-Ledge]

This is the only way some people can let go of the vanity of the world, by just immersing in this, you just see how phantom the vanity of the world is, an illusion a facade, a hocus pocus:

[The-Mughal-Sister]

Interesting thread.

I would like to add one piece of music which has always stuck in my head and now I've realized it has a title, 'A Time For 'Us', and some foreign guy with a complicated name to pronounce, composed the tune.

Let me know if I can join the cool classical club, cos it's feel cold out here whilst you guys are discussing violins lol

This post has been edited by The-Mughal-Sister: 26 January 2012 - 12:13 AM

[Know-the-Ledge]

Go away, Leave me alone, I am busy mending my heart I can't give my broken heart to my Beloved!

- rumi

[sunniskeptic]

I LOVE Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata! Great thread. Although my favourite classical pieces are mostly by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, this is a masterful piece of music and so is his Ninth Symphony, which includes the Ode to Joy.

p.s. sorry to be a party-pooper but isn't music haram? (especially music by the kuffaar?)

Know-The-Ledge, on 24 January 2012 - 01:57 PM, said:

Ofcourse this is probably the most famous piece ever written, a man standing in a crowd, laughing and engaging in high-jinks, but then goes home on his own lonely...he was always lonely, even when he made love to all those people he was lonely:

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=vQVeaIHWWck

[Know-the-Ledge]

Never advertise your grief in the shop window, there's just no market for it in the world.

[sunniskeptic]

(p.s. how do I embed the youtube videos directly?)

This post has been edited by Fatema-the-resplendent: 29 January 2012 - 12:06 PM