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rosencrantz:
I've just done a web search and discovered the group - they have an interesting history.  Not so keen per se on mediaeval music - and I've just listened to a few extracts on Amazon - not my cup of tea for general listening but their Christmas album looks interesting!  Memories of Steeleye Span??!
R

New Guest:
Greetings all you lovely people

I have never posted before, but loved this topic and wanted to include two things relating to music and all of us:

THEY'RE SINGING YOUR SONG

When a woman in a certain African tribe knows she is pregnant, she goes out into the wilderness with a few friends and together they pray and meditate until they hear the song of the child. They recognize that every soul has its own vibration that expresses its unique flavor and purpose. When the women attune to the song, they sing it out loud. Then they return to the tribe and teach it to everyone else.

When the child is born, the community gathers and sings the child's song to him or her. Later, when the child enters education, the village gathers and chants the child's song. When the child passes through the initiation to adulthood, the people again come together and sing. At the time of marriage, the person hears his or her song.

Finally, when the soul is about to pass from this world, the family and friends gather at the person's bed, just as they did at their birth, and they sing the person to the next life.

To the African tribe there is one other occasion upon which the villagers sing to the child. If at any time during his or her life, the person commits a crime or aberrant social act, the individual is called to the center of the village and the people in the community form a circle around them. Then they sing their song to them.

The tribe recognizes that the correction for antisocial behavior is not punishment; it is love and the remembrance of identity. When you recognize your own song, you have no desire or need to do anything that would hurt another.

A friend is someone who knows your song and sings it to you when you have forgotten it. Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.

You may not have grown up in an African tribe that sings your song to you at crucial life transitions, but life is always reminding you when you are in tune with yourself and when you are not. When you feel good, what you are doing matches your song, and when you feel awful, it doesn't. In the end, we shall all recognize our song and sing it well. You may feel a little warbly at the moment, but so have all the great singers. Just keep singing and you'll find your way home.

~Alan Cohen~

This next item I just heard about for the first time a month ago. Remember somthing very important here - it was written by a 10 year old boy whom I had the pleasure of hearing play (he is now  12 and probably going on 4,000 or whatever in maturity):

THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES


“I am truly a child of the Mozart Effect, because my mother played Mozart, Bach and Vivaldi tome from the moment I was conceived. There is no question that I heard that music in my mother’s womb. My cranial nerves grew with Vivaldi’s ‘The Four Seasons’ and my heart started to beat with Bach’s ‘Toccata and Fugue in D Minor’. From the time that I asked for a violin when I was three years old, I knew that I wanted to play and compose because I recognized that music was the very substance of my being. I believe that all matter is frozen music. The music of the atoms spinning in orbit is 20 octaves higher than we can hear; the constant trembling of the earth is 20 octaves lower.  Every person’s DNA plays music, because it was formed by sound. That brings us to my work of using sound to heal. Last year when my dad was diagnosed with AML, a very serious form of leukemia, I began to compose a concerto for his healing on the violin and on the piano. Every time that I went to see him I played this sacred song of healing. There was never a doubt in my mind that he would have a complete and total recovery, and he has. If you take someone’s musical notes to the nucleotides and create key, timing and note duration, you will hear the song of their soul. When it is played it can heal depression, restore imbalances which cause disease and put them in touch with their life’s purposes. I believe that sound is the key to creating neurological pathways to the vast part of our brain that we do not use. Bill Gates revolutionized technology with Windows. I want to revolutionize life by opening  “Doorways” to the Music of the Spheres.”

Antonio Pontarelli   10/2001
www.antoniomusic.com

Please remember the fine music in your own soul!!!!!

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Anonymous:

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Oh, yes how beautiful!  That really reasonates/struck a chord.  Thanks for writing that, New Guest.




--- Quote ---I think Dawning was talking about the yellow-toothed smile elsewhere (was it?) - where some Arabs (?) have five words for 'smile',
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This is the first time I have heard of it.   :D   Sounds wonderful.

I am listening to http://www.live365.com  now in the Ambient "room."  Channel is called Internet Oasis.  Lots of nice compositions there.

Love,
Dawning.

Dawning:
Me, forgetting to log in again.   :?  

New Guest, I also wanted to say thanks, too, for posting THEY'RE SINGING YOUR SONG.  So true, so true.  What a gem.  If you have any other info about that tribe, where they live, their name, etc.  I would love to know more.  But the information you have written here is certainly enough for me to understand.

Love again,
Dawning.

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