Guest guest Posted July 14, 2000 Report Share Posted July 14, 2000 Canon, Pachelbel made me cry the first time i heard it and makes me cry now because it is what I walked up the aisle too!! happy tears by the way! HTH > OK, so this is me the music graduate asking this - what pieces of music (any > sort, pop, classical whatever) makes you cry? Is there any particular > reason? Is it the words (if it has any), does it trigger a special memory > or (if a song) would it still make you cry if you just heard the tune and > not the words? I'd like to know if particular chords/arrangements of notes > are able to do it or basically whether words actually matter. -- Mum to (aged 4, born a whopping 11lbs 6oz) and 2 angels 20/10/98 and 24/3/00 Farnborough, Hants Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 14, 2000 Report Share Posted July 14, 2000 Rutter's 'For the Beauty of the Earth' - just a beautiful piece of music, with such simple and wonderful words. Queen 'You're My Best Friend' - I think hearing the tune would be enough as I know all the words. Probably many more, old school hymn etc, 'Bookends/Old Friends' by Simon and Garfunkle, if I sat down to think about it! > > > OK, so this is me the music graduate asking this - what pieces of music (any > > sort, pop, classical whatever) makes you cry? Is there any particular > > reason? Is it the words (if it has any), does it trigger a special memory > > or (if a song) would it still make you cry if you just heard the tune and > > not the words? I'd like to know if particular chords/arrangements of notes > > are able to do it or basically whether words actually matter. > -- Dick, SAHM to (7/4/97) and Kitty (22/7/99) and wife of (26/9/66) Newsletter Editor, Advertising manager MSLC Rep - Alton, Bordon and District See pictures of us all at: http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumList?u=848605 Password: Wisley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 14, 2000 Report Share Posted July 14, 2000 Helen Bates wrote: > > > There is a song on The Communards album " Red " called " For a Friend " that is > about the loss of someone you love (in this case from Aids). Oh yes - I remember that on too - v.sad -- Dick, SAHM to (7/4/97) and Kitty (22/7/99) and wife of (26/9/66) Newsletter Editor, Advertising manager MSLC Rep - Alton, Bordon and District See pictures of us all at: http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumList?u=848605 Password: Wisley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 14, 2000 Report Share Posted July 14, 2000 > OK, so this is me the music graduate asking this - what pieces of music (any > sort, pop, classical whatever) makes you cry? Is there any particular > reason? Is it the words (if it has any), does it trigger a special memory > or (if a song) would it still make you cry if you just heard the tune and > not the words? I'd like to know if particular chords/arrangements of notes > are able to do it or basically whether words actually matter. There is a song on The Communards album " Red " called " For a Friend " that is about the loss of someone you love (in this case from Aids). This song has always made me cry especially the line " No-one cried the way I cried over you; and the world it carried on, as I put down the telephone " . I was living in Brighton at the time and one of my gay friends died very suddenly after being HIV +ve for many years. Another friend phoned to tell me the news and I burst into tears on the phone. I always think of when I hear this song (sniff, sniff - yo've started me off now) Helen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 14, 2000 Report Share Posted July 14, 2000 > Rutter's 'For the Beauty of the Earth' - just a beautiful piece of music, with >such simple and wonderful words. major ditto to that! in fact nearly anything by Rutter has a strong effect on me. Nimrod from Elgars Enigma Variations and Bach's B Minor Mass and the Sanctus fron Faures Requiem lots of things with words which have/had a significance especially hymns & other church worship songs, in particular the hymn " in Heavenly Love Abiding " which we had at Granny's funeral. Angi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 14, 2000 Report Share Posted July 14, 2000 Stainer's Crucifixion. Certain parts affect me more than others, but the whole thing is beautiful. Drive by The Cars - mainly because of the Live Aid connection. Alison OK, so this is me the music graduate asking this - what pieces of music (any sort, pop, classical whatever) makes you cry? Is there any particular reason? Is it the words (if it has any), does it trigger a special memory or (if a song) would it still make you cry if you just heard the tune and not the words? I'd like to know if particular chords/arrangements of notes are able to do it or basically whether words actually matter. ina Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 14, 2000 Report Share Posted July 14, 2000 > says: Canon, Pachelbel > made me cry the first time i heard it and makes me cry now because it is >what I walked up the aisle too!! happy tears by the way! Barbara: Sorry...I associate this music with the old advert for 'pure new wool' which has sheep walking across the screen - must be my age.! I do love it though. I have a couple of friends in Southampton City Orchestra who put on family concerts twice a year and remember them playing it really well, DD1 was v impressed. I wanted the Arrival of the Queen of Sheba to walk up the aisle to, but was a bit too shy to dare to do this! had e Trumpet Voluntary (IIRC) instead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 14, 2000 Report Share Posted July 14, 2000 Barbara Wyant wrote: > > I wanted the Arrival of the Queen of Sheba to walk up the aisle to, but was > a bit > too shy to dare to do this! I had it for my wedding! But then again no one has ever called me shy! > -- Dick, SAHM to (7/4/97) and Kitty (22/7/99) and wife of (26/9/66) Newsletter Editor, Advertising manager MSLC Rep - Alton, Bordon and District See pictures of us all at: http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumList?u=848605 Password: Wisley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 14, 2000 Report Share Posted July 14, 2000 For me it`s the hymn 'One more step along the road I go'....anyone else with school age children know this, and remember wishing they`d tucked a hanky up their sleeve???Often sung at Carol services, end of year, etc.... a reminder of one`s little bunny growing up :-((( Also - Queen - You`re my Best friend - best thing they ever did. got there first! Barbara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 14, 2000 Report Share Posted July 14, 2000 I decided when I forst heard that piece of music in a music lesson at school when I was 12 that I'd have it at my wedding. Along with a Prince on a white horse etc. Well at least I got the music I wanted..... Barbara Wyant wrote: > > Barbara: I wanted the Arrival of the Queen of Sheba to walk up the aisle > to, but was > > a bit too shy............. > > : I had it for my wedding! > > Barbara: Well, it *was* 15 years ago ;-)))) > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 14, 2000 Report Share Posted July 14, 2000 > Barbara: I wanted the Arrival of the Queen of Sheba to walk up the aisle to, but was > a bit too shy............. > : I had it for my wedding! Barbara: Well, it *was* 15 years ago ;-)))) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 14, 2000 Report Share Posted July 14, 2000 - >For me it`s the hymn 'One more step along the road I go'....anyone else with >school age children know this, and remember wishing they`d tucked a >hanky up their sleeve??? oh yes -and no just mums of school age kids....us teachers had a sniff or two at the leavers services too (relief probably (j/K!!)) angi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 14, 2000 Report Share Posted July 14, 2000 >Canon, Pachelbel >made me cry the first time i heard it and makes me cry now because it is what I >walked up the aisle too!! happy tears by the way! >HTH Had this at our wedding too! Didn't walk up the aisle to it though - we stuck to " Here Comes The Bride, All Fat And Wide " . Didn't make me cry, even though it was so true.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 15, 2000 Report Share Posted July 15, 2000 >Also The Living Years by Mike and the Mechanics. When I listen to the >words about how he missed the opportunity to make peace with his dad >before the dad's death, I keep thinking of my spiky relationship with >my mum. > > " It's too late, when they die >To admit you don't see eye to eye " > >Lesley Moor Gets me every time too! Used to also be strongly affected by the Beautiful South's " prettiest eyes " and Lighthouse Family's " High " - both seemed to strike a chord during various pregnancies. Lighthouse Family's " Sun in the Night " (also off the Postcard from Heaven album) usually has me in floods - searching, loss & longing and hanging on to memories. (Just put the disc into the CDROM drive to listen to it while I'm typing). One of the strongest effects on me is from a modern-ish hymn - " I the Lord of sea and sky " . It dates back to when I was going through the shall I/shan't I be a Catholic debate with myself. It's the chorus - " here I am Lord, is it I Lord? I have heard you calling in the night. I will go Lord, if you lead me. I will hold your people in my heart. " (Eek, tears in my eyes just typing it) It brings back the inner wranglings and irresistible sense of being " called " so strongly... it was one of the hymns at the Easter night vigil service where I was finally " received " and it was such a moving ceremony (good job I'd decided not to bother with the mascara!) On a less tearful note " Zoom " by Fat Larry's Band always makes me smile - the first record Ad & I danced to - hear it in a shop and I'm almost guaranteed to buy something!!! -- best wishes... Doberska - Reading, UK NCT teacher, Teachers' Treasurer Mum of (7), (5) & (2) cathyd@... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 15, 2000 Report Share Posted July 15, 2000 Me too, 16 years ago with Toccata and Fugue in D Minor going the other way. Music I cry to. 'Somewhere' from West Side Story, my favourite musical. All the words just rack me up. For years 'Baker Street' by Gerry Rafferty because it reminds me of when I used to go with my Dad to see my Mum when she was in Barts Hospital in London for two months in 1978. Mum's now find but my Dad died in 1979 when I was 19. 'Who wants to live forever' by Queen. Plus the scene from the 'Railway Children' on the station platform when a meets her father off the train is one guaranteed to have me reaching for the tissues! > > > Barbara Wyant wrote: > > > > > I wanted the Arrival of the Queen of Sheba to walk up the aisle to, but was > > a bit > > too shy to dare to do this! > > I had it for my wedding! But then again no one has ever called me shy! > > > -- > > Dick, > SAHM to (7/4/97) and Kitty (22/7/99) > and wife of (26/9/66) > Newsletter Editor, Advertising manager > MSLC Rep - Alton, Bordon and District > See pictures of us all at: > http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumList?u=848605 > Password: Wisley > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Wish you had something rad to add to your email? > We do at www.supersig.com. > http://click./1/6807/10/_/_/_/963602683/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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