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I found this fascinating. I am living proof that music can be used to control pain. I have been singing and playing all kinds of music. I was classically trained in both piano and voice. As I have an unusually low voice, I have traditionally written my own harmonic vocal parts with all types of music, and go fully into flow when even just singing. If I play as well, a bomb could go off and I wouldn’t notice until the piece was finished.
Music and reading speculative fiction are my two pain remedies.
So timely Marc! Earlier today, I was talking with a friend about modern-day music and literature compared to the works of the 18th and 19th centuries—timeless, powerful, and still healing even today.
Why doesn’t today’s music come close to that level?
I found this fascinating. I am living proof that music can be used to control pain. I have been singing and playing all kinds of music. I was classically trained in both piano and voice. As I have an unusually low voice, I have traditionally written my own harmonic vocal parts with all types of music, and go fully into flow when even just singing. If I play as well, a bomb could go off and I wouldn’t notice until the piece was finished.
Music and reading speculative fiction are my two pain remedies.
Mozart, Handel, Fauré requiems, cello quartets, rounds, madrigals, Beethoven’s 9th, Bach Ode to Joy, hair metal, blues. It all works if the musical quality is there. The older music is much higher quality.
I don’t take any medication. I haven’t for almost ten years. I am a lot healthier for it.
Thanks again.
So timely Marc! Earlier today, I was talking with a friend about modern-day music and literature compared to the works of the 18th and 19th centuries—timeless, powerful, and still healing even today.
Why doesn’t today’s music come close to that level?