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Music that resonates with your soul

To that one, I was dancing with a girl. I have no idea where I had found these old-fashioned long pointy shoes, but I was wearing them and tripping over my own feet. The musician who had to play for the girl, my Angelita, he was looking so annoyed. Her father must have been a really influential person indeed. Anyway, I remember how we were dancing to this tune. And also the bored and annoyed look of the musician. Which leaves a feeling of amusement to me and also a deep longing.

The other one. All I know here is that I was there. When I saw the state of the building in 1436 and heard the sounds of the tune at the same time, I immediately knew that I was there. Got a flash. Who I was and what I was doing there is another question, entirely. Also, these old songs NEVER seem to sound right...
 
I was Aide-de-camp to Joseph Plunkett during the 1916 Rising. This song always meant something to me even before I remembered reincarnation. Its about Plunkett marrying his new bride not long before he was executed after the Rising. Its a good song to be drunk to.

 
Jim78 said:
I was Aide-de-camp to Joseph Plunkett during the 1916 Rising. This song always meant something to me even before I remembered reincarnation. Its about Plunkett marrying his new bride not long before he was executed after the Rising. Its a good song to be drunk to.

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I listen extensively to irish music and I have played tin whistle/irish flute before this life. I picked one up in 2007 and could play it pretty much right away. Been playing it daily since. I have too many favorites to even list. Irish, scottish, confederate, German soldier's songs and military marches is pretty much my taste in music. Anything good with bagpipes is an instant hit. Not the discordant war pipes, perhaps. Sometimes it can be good. The more melodious kinds like the smallpipes or uilleann.
 
Hi Ritter.

This is a song I only had to name check to clear a pub last year:


The customers were having a musical pub crawl without rebel music. I pointed out that a pub crawl was about brotherhood just like men under a flag of war. I pointed out the foolishness in what they were listening to. That cleared the pub rapidly. The band leader couldn't cope with the humiliation.
 
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Hi Ritter.

This is a song I only had to name check to clear a pub last year:


The customers were having a musical pub crawl without rebel music. I pointed out that a pub crawl was about brotherhood just like men under a flag of war. I pointed out the foolishness in what they were listening to. That cleared the pub rapidly. The band leader couldn't cope with the humiliation.
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Yeah. I like innocuous songs too, but that one is a classic. Most of my favorites are war songs. Like "The rising of the moon". It captures the spirit of 1798 quite well.

 
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Yea Ritter. I died in one life in 1798. The Dubliners is played in pubs. I never understood why such music resonated with me, I assumed it was because I was Irish by maybe my soul was remembering even when my conscious mind wasn't.
 

Not the beautiful images, but the language is part of my soul. Roughly, I understand lyrics in Ladino.
 
I've always been partial to Bobby Darin's version of A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square. Always associating it with a favourite actor.

But, Glenn Miller's version from 1940, which I have just heard for the first time tonight, resonates far deeper. An evening at the Savoy, or a dance during my courtship with my husband. Listening a second time, I'm leaning more toward the latter. As I mimed along to the lyrics I know so well already, my breath caught in the back of my throat.

It does seem to be Glenn Miller's music that often strikes my soul.
 
The music in the 2000 film "O Brother Where Art Thou" is a very American folk style. I'm not sure to what extent it would have been heard or listened to in England, 1897 to 1959.

Notably both that film and the 1973 movie "Paper Moon" were set during a particular era in the U.S.A. Perhaps that is a lifetime you are recalling, rather than one in England.
 
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Do you ever hear a piece of music and just feel it belongs somewhere inside you? That you can't stop listening to it no matter how many times it's played - and it's not a memory or even a nostalgia thing, it just feels like it belongs right there with you? It's more than just liking the music or appreciating it - it's more like it's something which fits you perfectly, like a jigsaw puzzle, and speaks for you without words having to. I thought it would be nice to share pieces of music that we feel express our souls - sort of like a musical representation of them. I really only get this with instrumental music (only once did I feel something for a song with lyrics). I have three in particular that I am particularly drawn to which I feel sum me up. Please feel free to share yours too.

(This is the peaceful side to me. It's what I'd ideally have without the others - even though obviously there's a strange beauty in the other two as well and they are crucial in their own right. This one particular track, though I don't know why, really represents a sense of calm and makes me feel like the other two were worth it just to get to this one. I haven't actually played the Sims either ... Lol.
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Yes. Handel's Largo from Xerxes (Ode to a Tree). Sends me. I am not sure if it is relevant to a past life or not but it has resonated with me from the first time of hearing it c50 years ago.
 
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EDIT: This was one of my favorite tunes when I was a child (9 or 10 years old). Took me ages, literally, to find it back. Had no idea that it would be listed as a Christmas song. Neither did I realize back then that it is an anti-war song.
 
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I always loved that one too - stop the cavalry :)
It's on one of my christmas cds

I figured out lately that some 65 - 67 songs trigger my memory like from the kinks and manfred mann (death of a clown, waterloo sunset, semi detached suburban mr james) -- i turn them on and soon some scene/pic pops up.
 
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