{"id":841,"date":"2013-05-03T09:21:41","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T14:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/?p=841"},"modified":"2013-06-10T20:39:45","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T01:39:45","slug":"the-magic-of-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/2013\/05\/03\/the-magic-of-music\/","title":{"rendered":"The magic of music"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What is music and why there is so much of the enchantment of love in it?<\/h6>\n
Music is the secret of Love and Love is the secret of God<\/h6>\n
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Love plays its lute behind the screen \u2014
\nwhere is a lover to listen to its tune?
\nThe world has spilled Love’s secret \u2014
\nwhen could music ever hold its tongue?
\nEvery atom babbles the mystery \u2014<\/h6>\n
Listen yourself, for I’m no tattletale!<\/h6>\n

-Fakhruddin ‘Iraqi<\/p>\n

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Rumi<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIn the house of lovers, the music never stops,<\/h6>\n
the walls are made of songs & the floor dances\u201d<\/h6>\n

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Don’t worry about saving these songs!
\nAnd if one of our instruments breaks,
\nit doesn’t matter.<\/p>\n

We have fallen into the place
\nwhere everything is music.<\/p>\n

The strumming and the flute notes
\nrise into the atmosphere,
\nand even if the whole world’s harp
\nshould burn up, there will still be
\nhidden instruments playing.<\/p>\n

So the candle flickers and goes out.
\nWe have a piece of flint, and a spark.<\/p>\n

This singing art is sea foam.
\nThe graceful movements come from a pearl
\nsomewhere on the ocean floor.<\/p>\n

Poems reach up like spindrift and the edge
\nof driftwood along the beach, wanting!<\/p>\n

They derive
\nfrom a slow and powerful root
\nthat we can’t see.<\/p>\n

Stop the words now.
\nOpen the window in the center of your chest,
\nand let the spirits fly in and out.<\/p>\n

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(From: Rumi \u2013 Selected Poems.\u00a0<\/em>Translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne)<\/h6>\n
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‘Tis said, the pipe and lute that charm our ears
\nDerive their melody from rolling spheres;
\nBut Faith, o’erpassing speculation’s bound,
\nCan see what sweetens every jangled sound.<\/span><\/p>\n

We, who are parts of Adam, heard with him
\nThe song of angels and of seraphim.
\nOut memory, though dull and sad, retains
\nSome echo still of those unearthly strains.<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh, music is the meat of all who love,
\nMusic uplifts the soul to realms above.
\nThe ashes glow, the latent fires increase:
\nWe listen and are fed with joy and peace.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

trans. R. A. Nicholson<\/span><\/p>\n

(From:\u00a0‘Persian Poems<\/a><\/em>‘, an Anthology of verse translations
\nedited by A.J. Arberry, Everyman’s Library, 1972)<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n<\/span>We rarely hear the inward music,
\nbut we\u2019re all dancing to it nevertheless
\ndirected by the one who teaches us,
\nthe pure joy of the sun,
\nour music master.
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We all were parts of Adam at one time
\nIn paradise we all have heard these tunes
\nThough clay and water fill us up with doubts
\nWe still remember something of those songs<\/p>\n

From Masnavi 736-7<\/h6>\n
Trans. by Franklin Lewis, found here<\/a><\/h6>\n

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The musician’s art is to send light into the depths of men’s hearts<\/h6>\n
-Robert Schumann<\/h6>\n

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All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music<\/h6>\n
-Walter Pater<\/h6>\n

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Music is the mediation between the intellectual and the sensuous life<\/h6>\n
-Beethoven<\/h6>\n

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Music is the Answer to the mystery of life; it is the most profound of all the arts; it expresses \u00a0the deepest thoughts of life and being in simple language which nonetheless cannot be translated.<\/h6>\n
-Schopenhauer<\/h6>\n

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