Music Rocks My World!

I'm probably the first to admit that my taste in music is really bizzare. I listen to anything and everything, but like all other people I have my favourites. I'm a firm believer in music reciprocates a person's mood. Loud thrashy music helps you clear your angst, soulful rhytmic music makes you chill. Having a bit of a scoot about last night, I was going to write about cars today but decided instead to give everyone a music lesson and a bit of poetry from my RP blog. So here goes. Here's what you should listen to in chronological order:

Medieval: 1150:1400 AD

Should listen to some Landini if feeling really stressed. Any vocal chant or choral. WARNING gets repetitive on the ears after a while and you will feel like taking a cliff dive-not joking-.

Reneissance: 1400:1600 AD

Composing takes a turn for the adventurous. Music is still based around the secular as most composers compose for the Roman catholic church around this time. Composers start experimenting, goes hand in hand with the art and building of the period. Recommended composers and music here:

Byrd: Mass for 4 voices gives me chills!

Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli; Missa aeterna Christi munera

Lobo: Missa pro defunctis / Cardoso: Missa pro defunctis

Tallis: Mass for Four Voices; Motets I love love love Thomas Tallis!

Victoria: Missa O magnum mysterium; Missa O quam gloriosum / A. Lobo: Versa est in luctum

Again the madrigal feel can be a bit too secular for some. Use with caution!

Baroque 1600:1750 AD

This is when music starts to get sexy! Composers break from the church and start rocking the worlds socks off by doing their own thing! This is probably my favourite period in music as you can tell composers were excited about what they were writing and it was all new to them and the virgin ears of the common people. It must have been revolutionary like Elvis in the 50's!! Here lies the birthplace of the Symphony, the Sonata and the Opera as we know it.

I recommend

Handel-water music, the arrival of the queen of sheeba, Zadok the priest (footy fans will know this)

Bach-anything he's lush I was married to this moody man in a former life methinks

Scarlatti-special mentions for his Tocatta series

Henry Purcell-I love the fairy queen just because I wanted to be her

Vivaldi-the four seasons

Classical 1750-1830 AD

I only really like 2 composers from this era. Sorry I know there are droves and droves of classical composers, but only two of them make sense to my ears:

Mozart-Requiem, Jupiter symphony (wow is all I can say), All the piano concerti (And I mean all of them!!)

Haydn-Love his nocturnes, and opuses

If I was pushed I would also say Emmannuell but the afore named two just dominated the Classical Era.

Early Romantic 1830-1860 AD

This is where the drama kicks in. Great, great period for Music. And loads of composers you should recognise, some may sound a bit obscure but I bet that the music has been used in ad campaigns all over the world.

I recommend

Beethoven-Symphony no.5, Moonlight Sonata, Christ on the mountain of Olives, All the canons particularly Oh Tobias, and of course his Requiem

Schubert-can be a bit sickly but persevere!! Winterreise is my favourite incedentally here we so far have one deaf man and one man who died of Syphillis!

Mendlesohnn- Only because I have played so much of his work myself. All his piano/clavi Concerti are gorgeous.

Chopin-please listen to the préludes. Theyre amazing.

Late Romantic era 1860-1920 AD

Ok everyone went bonkers here. Great works, massive inspirational pieces and mostly soppy lovey stuff too!!

I love

Wagner-I <3 class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_45">Tristian and Isolde for ever!

Brahms: Symphony No. 2 ; Hungarian Dances

Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1-4; Tragic Overture; Haydn Variations; Academic Festival Overture; Serenades Nos. 1 & 2

Dvořák: Slavonic Dances, Symphony No. 9 'New World'; Symphonic Variations

Grieg: Peer Gynt, Suites Nos. 1and 2

Holst: The Planets; Suite de Ballet

Puccini: Tosca

Ravel: Boléro; Daphnis et Chloé; Ma mère l'oye

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2; Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (powerful stuff)

Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien; 1812 Overture; Romeo and Juliet Overture; Marche Slave

Modern 1920-

Gershwin, Gershwin Gershwin and a bit of Elgar thrown in for good measure

Classical-done!

Modern-here is what I have on my MP3 at the moment

Alexisonfire, fivefinger death punch, Avenged sevenfold, Metallica, Foo fighters, Kings of Leon, the doors, the script, the editors, Franz ferdinand, the animals, The lost prophets, safetysuit, Kazabian, Adele, Spoon, Muse, Pendulum and finally the kaizer cheifs....random? Yes. That's right. That's just me!

Right poems. Taken off my RP blog:

Betrayal.......

I stand here, on my own,

Not moving, not blinking,

but alone.In a new City, I'm calling a home.

The truth I laid out there

For all too see,

too hard to bear

Burns under my skin.

-------

You think me a child,

That I have no clue

I accepted your lies, so cold

Expecting YOU to be true.

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I took every moment

and locked them away

Truth turned to ashes

In the cold light of day

I left for some Soul Searching

To know my own love

To return stronger than before

Only to return to ultimate betrayal

What did I do to deserve such heartbreak?

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So now I stand where I began

I have no resilience

No more fight to battle

In this dalliance.

I cannot compete,

Or fall at your feet

The one who betrayed me so easily

-----

I won't let it break me

But I cannot heal

The ghosts you stirred in me

That day-they were real

You took what you wanted-what I would not give

With time, I would have been yours

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I look to the City,

And know your both there

Both happy together, you think I don't care?

Because I took time out to know my own heart

Your games and your tortures

It tore me apart

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What?

Through the darkness

And pain of despair,

Rejection engulfs me

When you are not there

The rivers of heartache

Grew dark with that loss

But rocks under water

They gather no moss

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It's onwards were moving

Away from my heart

Who ripped me to pieces

And tore me apart

It left me to gather

Those pieces alone

To keep myself worthy

My heart turned to stone

-----

And now in the twilight

Sun loosing the fight

I'll wait once again

For the weak breaking light

The stars dazzle gaily

Amidst the crisp air

The realisation-Will you ever be there?

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For you love another

So torn from the start

You dazzled me quickly

And ran with my heart

So now, I repair it

and try to be free

Here in the twilight

There is only me

-----

Taking without asking

Does my heart feel shame

My conscience full of guilt?

Like a friendship gone wrong

This pain is felt

No my love

Not the pain that brings sorrow

But the pain

That gives birth to all my tomorrows

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Shame for doubting love to be so true

Love had failed me

Until the day that I met you

Heartbreak, infidelity

An irreconcilable difference

Misconceptions, no trust

Happiness without the resemblance

Sorrow for all who do not know heart's satisfaction

Sharing a love that ignores this world's distractions

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Guilt like I have found a buried treasure

Or the fountain of youth

My future shines bright

And I am not in need of reproof

Each day reveals the idiosyncrasy of the need for love

Pure, without blemish

-----
The symbol of a flying white dove

I love who you are

Not who you feel you need to be

You are my guiding force

Forever my love’s destiny

Silence

Silence engulfs her once screaming night

She sits biting at the withered skin

that gathers around the edges of her nails

Shards of icy tingles haunt her spine

while she reflects upon her past

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Her legs shake when she gets nervous

so she digs her teeth hard into her tongue

to focus on something else.

Wet flesh rolling in a dumb stupor,

she knows what she wants to say

It is trying to claw its way out from inside her

but her lips remain padlocked

-----
No wetness softens her cheeks

She’s numbEyes wide

Pupils dilatedShe just stares,

at nothing she stares,

no story in her eyes just an etched in look of grief

-----

Motionless she sits,

doesn’t know how long she has been there

or how long until she can move again

She just sits paralysed by the

silence

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Had I known

Had I Known I would have loved you then.

Had I known, I would have asked less questions...

Followed my heart a little more.

Had I known one day you'd be gone,

and I couldn't show you anymore.

I'd have lived each moment as if it were the last.

Remember every word... not let time go by so fast.

But I was wrapped in my own image, afraid to let it show,

But now I wish I loved you.

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Why couldn't I know that you would leave me,

and I'd be caught in the past.

In the moments I could have changed,

the times that were your last.

I would have lived a lifetime in a few short days.

Instead I have a few brief moments, that I let my heart show.

Memories of a love that I refused to know,

until it was almost too late.

Then it was over, and I was all alone.

In a daze, I wonder......

Did you know I loved you all along?

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Paths

Would things have really been so different

Would the world really have been so shaken

If when I were a much younger

I had chosen the road not taken

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Would the days have been any the brighter

Or the nights darker than they are

Would I still have lived in such obscurity

Or shined brighter than any star

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It does little good to wonder

Of things that might have been

For who, and what I have become

I must live with in the end

Though life could have been much better

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All in all I do not feel forsaken

I count the blessings that I have

And cry not of the road not taken