A definition of music
Stamped with a religious mark from the beginning
it ever was a ladder between earth and heaven
for the mortal spirit to transcend to immortality
by seeking contact with the gods through harmony and beauty.
So the muses were created as a kind of intermediary
to stand directly in association with the arts,
the artists being all musicians, since originally music was all arts,
the manifested concretization of the inspiration of the muses;
while the highest art was always fundamental music,
which is best described as simply prayer,
the direct live contact with divinity,
which all the great composers proved:
Bach, Handel, Haydn, Beethoven,
they all paid tribute to the godhead
principally first and last.
That is my definition: music as the best of prayers.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2007-02-20 at 20:43
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