Category: music
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Music for Savage Breasts and Scorned Women
I went searching for a misquotation “Music soothes a savage beast”, and found… William Congreve writes in his tragic play The Mourning Bride (1697): Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast, To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak. I’ve read, that things inanimate have mov’d, And, as with living Souls, have been inform’d, By…
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Musical Mithridatism
“Why do you listen to angry music?” The question caught me off guard, when my mom posed it out of the blue. Why did I? Angst alone would have been an adequate explanation then, I was an angsty teen. Which begs the question; Why do I still listen to angry music now, as a happy adult? At…
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