Joy and sorrow are so closely related that sometimes we weep with joy or laugh with horror. Sometimes you cannot tell if someone who has become hysterical is laughing or crying; and in fact, one moment they may be doing one, and in the next moment the other. You may suffer an ice burn; or, lying in a hot bath, if you put your foot under the cold tap the cold water may feel as though it is scalding you; often, at a moment of the greatest joy or happiness, there may be a certain sense of pain or sorrow contained somewhere within it; equally, in pain there can be a feeling of pleasure. In all music, from Baroque to film and popular music, there are often melodies which, being in a major key, may at first seem happy, bright, positive and so on - as opposed to having the sad qualities of the minor - and yet you cannot really tell if they are one or the other. A certain turn of phrase may seem happy and in another moment sad; or it may contain elements of both at the same time. -- Simon Fischer, in The Violin Lesson (2013) https://youtube/watch?v=hJEkEL6Obzk
Posted on: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 00:43:38 +0000
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