What’s in a Story?
Songs are a story. They use lyrics to emotionally bring you in. The lyrics tell you how the singer is feeling, what is on their mind. The music behind the lyrics works in the same fashion. Music itself is a story. I’ve wrote about music and life here:
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Music can ebb and flow and it can be loud, aggressive, or soft and melodic. All of these changes in a song is on purpose, for the composer of the music to tell a story. That story could be about a particular event, an emotion, a way he or she wants the audience to feel. The listener brings the story to light with the thoughts that can come to mind while listening to the music.
No Words
There are no lyrics in music. It is up to the composer and the listener to make up the story by putting the notes together, by putting the sounds of the music together, and creating a story in their mind. What is even stranger about this is that two people can come up with different stories because the sound is in the ear of the beholder. The composer might want the listener to feel a particular emotion, and instead the user feels something completely different.
Power of Music
This is the power of music. Music is a story and it can be a storybook, a chapter book, or a fiction novel. It can be magical, it can be powerful, it can be emotional. Music is a story.
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