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Post Subject: ... ah! You named it!Posted by twogoodears on: 11/23/2008
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Tears theory: interesting... BUT, most important, and this REALLY find me fully agreeing, you named my very "King of the Orchestra": Its Majesty the Double-Bass!
I own about eighty records of double-bass music: orchestra, solo, solo & piano, contemporary and classical and jazz... the player's player Ludwig Streicher, down to Gary Karr, and many, many others... the composers are Bottesini, Dragonetti and many, lesser known others... well: I guess it's not a casuality you, like myself, find double bass so moving... cello, bassoon, oboe, double-bass are, as I'm concerned, the most voice-like instruments.
Them all own an human-like voice, male or female, seldom found in other instruments... they're mighty, God-like, or siren-voiced or the voice of a fairy or a witch... but nonetheless whatever the similarities, they remind to human voices. Nothing is more moving than a voice... it's my strong opinion here is the point, like in Grieg's Peer Gynt, notably Ase's Death movement and the moaning, soulful strings lament... isn't it a voice-like piece? Composer's and personal experiences mixes and...
... and how I cry, always... it's music to listen to when a "bluesy", meditative mood is already there... AFTER this listening, I usually feel MUCH better. Healing music.
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