The Impact Of Music On Us
April 9, 2011You can’t find a more effective antidote than music to the emotional stress in response to the competitive working environment of these days. Are you tired of the heavy workload, unkind treatment or plain rudeness? Well, nothing could fix your problem better than a piano piece by Mozart, to be played at home in the evening, in the coziness of your bedroom. Those gentle yet merry sounds will make you hopeful again, offsetting by themselves your rough handling by the external world.
Does your profession entail a lot of mental or physical effort, you being a broker, lawyer or doctor and, as such, you need plenty of relaxation, though not of a total kind, but of an active and intellectual type? Well, listen to Berlioz’s witches or to a Prokofiev piano sonata played by Sviatoslav Richter, and see if the humor combined with coolness wouldn’t cheer you up, preparing you for perfectly handling any further pressure.
Do you need fresh romance in your long-standing marriage? What about a romantic dinner in some resort cottage, accompanied by Beethoven’s ‘Moon Sonata’, with its infinitely delicate passion, or, if you’d rather have something closer to modern sensibility, some Nico singing – both playfully and tragically – ‘After Hours’, with Velvet Underground?
Are you a sophisticated intellectual or a firm believer, so your pleasures are exquisite or transcendental, being provoked by anything perfect? For sure, nothing composed by Bach could disappoint you, whether it’s ‘The Art of Fugue’ or ‘Magnificat’. Are you, on the other hand, passionate about the limitless body in its youth, joy and pleasure, whether perfectly free or passionately in love? Then, maybe AC/DC, Black Sabbath or Guns N’ Roses are your men, able to make you feel that kind of transcendence. The fact is that music, whether sung or played, is always here for you when you need to get rid of stress, to relax, to love, to enjoy life or to share.
Imagine how more useful it would be, were you able to play it yourself! Believe it or not, there is, for instance, a fast and easy method to learn piano at least, without requiring specialist knowledge or the ability to read traditional music sheets or to perform stuck on your piano stool for endless hours, in order to reach the level of playing to an audience. It’s so functional because it works with numbers and colors and patterns – easy to see and learn. Is it not worth trying, so that to be able to perform at least a bagatelle, such as Beethoven’s ‘Fur Elise’ to your enchanted friends?
Who hasn’t been at a party or a concert, loved the music performed and planned to begin to learn piano?
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