Saddest Music in the World (2003) - Guy Maddin with Isabella RoselliniSo I am looking for sad music. I am thinking of what might work for the script I am working on. So as I am searching around for piano concertos and other inspirations I happen upon this enlightening article as to exactly why I am even looking for the said sad music.
Apparently music has been around with us humans for a very long time and it has even shaped the way our brains have developed. Music has the power to make us feel sad and wonderfully happy at the same time. Incidentally researchers are finding that "when music makes us cry our tears are filled with the hormone prolactin, which is integral to the essential human bonding experience of breast feeding. This along with the release of hormones such as dopamine and oxytocin, mimics the well-being we feel in the most intense moments of connection with others - nursing an infant, having sex, receiving praise."
This in some strange scientific i.e. dry way explains why we love music so much and what it does in our brains - apparently pleasure is what we are constantly seeking but more interestingly that pleasure can be something very ethereal and "music although abstract seems to stimulate the same neural pathways" as food, sex, and addictive drugs.
Keep on enjoying ...
Apparently music has been around with us humans for a very long time and it has even shaped the way our brains have developed. Music has the power to make us feel sad and wonderfully happy at the same time. Incidentally researchers are finding that "when music makes us cry our tears are filled with the hormone prolactin, which is integral to the essential human bonding experience of breast feeding. This along with the release of hormones such as dopamine and oxytocin, mimics the well-being we feel in the most intense moments of connection with others - nursing an infant, having sex, receiving praise."
This in some strange scientific i.e. dry way explains why we love music so much and what it does in our brains - apparently pleasure is what we are constantly seeking but more interestingly that pleasure can be something very ethereal and "music although abstract seems to stimulate the same neural pathways" as food, sex, and addictive drugs.
Keep on enjoying ...
~ excerpts of text taken from Walrus Magazine, May 2008 issue (which I just stumbled upon) Minor Keys by Moira Farr with quotes from David Huron, a musicologist and Robert Zatorre a neuropsychologist.
I would love to know your top ten sad songs or at least the top five.
I'll think of my list.
I'll think of my list.
Nina Simone - Lilac Wine
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ReplyDeleteok here is my little list for miss agi: sad songs by d.p.
ReplyDeletegood woman by cat power
wild is the wind by nina simone
tijuana lady by gomez
us ones in between bysunset rubdown
cars and telephones by arcade fire
many songs by bon iver but esp the wolves (act i and ii)
anything by antony and the johnsons
elliott smith is hard to whittle down to a list but i didn't understand (and between the bars and i better be quiet now and miss misery and no name no. 3 (oblivion) and say yes annnnnd yeah. he's sad.
jeff buckley's cover of hallelujah is pretty unanimously accepted as one wonderfully sad rendition of quel triste chanson
ne me quitte pas whoever sings it
dinner bells by wolf parade
so there's 11. this has been fun. love, princess d.