[Zen] Re: early music, church, Zen, etc(to Mayka/list)

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 02:08:42 -0800 

When I first started to learn to play a musical instrument in public school, we 
all had to start by learning to play recorders.  I ended up on the tuba...Bill!

--- In [email protected], Mel <gunnar19632000@...> wrote:
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> ...*smiles/laughter*...It sometimes does have its draw-backs..
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> Speaking of music lately, I've been getting myself involved in what's called 
> Early Music..along the lines of Europe's Feudal, Medieval, and Renaissance 
> music, and I attended my first concert a few weeks ago. This is because I'm 
> currently learning to play the recorder. Yes, I 
> know...*sighs/laughter*....parents get terrified of this simple plastic 
> instrument when any of the children get hold of it. Well, I've always wanted 
> to learn to play early music on this instrument, especially after having 
> watched the film ELIZABETH(1998, Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush) 
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> However, with such interests as the above, I sometimes wonder, because most 
> of such early music were associated with the church and the power that was 
> the Vatican. Before going back to Zen, I have tried twice to return 
> voluntarily to the Christian fold, and the emotions involved as well as other 
> things/issues just ended up tampering with my rather precarious blood 
> pressure and other health conditions. A part of me says that I should stick 
> to only the Asian variety of Zen or Buddhist-like music, but the fact is...I 
> love early music. I don't know...*smiles*...I just love it!
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> I've just been listening to the work SHEPHERD's DANCE(Tielman Susato, 
> 1510-1570 AD) on YouTube, and it has that soothing, calming 
> effect..*grin*...whoever said that such calm, soothing music can only come 
> from the Far East? And it was played with recorders ONLY...how about that?
>  
> in Buddha's serenity
> Mel
> gunnar19632000@...
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> --- On Wed, 9/3/11, Maria Lopez <flordeloto@...> wrote:
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> From: Maria Lopez <flordeloto@...>
> Subject: Re: [Zen] Something Refreshing
> To: [email protected]
> Received: Wednesday, 9 March, 2011, 8:49 PM
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> Mel;
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> Ah, You are a romantic!.  
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> Mayka
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> --- On Wed, 9/3/11, Mel <gunnar19632000@...> wrote:
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> From: Mel <gunnar19632000@...>
> Subject: [Zen] Something Refreshing
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Wednesday, 9 March, 2011, 7:19
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> Aw c'mon guys(that also means gals), I'm 48 and I can't get enough of Fank 
> Sinatra, Tony Bennet, and Andy Williams....great stars, yaaayyyyy!!!
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> swayin' in Buddha's grace
> old style Mel
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> --- On Wed, 9/3/11, Bill! <BillSmart@...> wrote:
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> Anything by The Beatles, The Kinks or Frank Zappa...(my age is showing) - 
> also The Talking Heads...Bill!
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> --- In [email protected], Maria Lopez <flordeloto@> wrote:
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> > Mike:
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> > What music would you recommend?.  Yes, make a list.  But not Sex 
> > Pistols and alike.   I'm not into that.   Are you into that 
> > kind of dynamic noise wave?.   However, I still listen from time to 
> > time to Pink Floyd.  Music is like everything else depends on the 
> > moment, place and mood I prefer to listen to some or another.  I 
> > don't listen to only one specific style.  But a bit from here a bit from 
> > there.
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> > What about you?.   What kind of music do you listen to?.  What do 
> > you like?
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> > Mayka
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> > --- On Tue, 8/3/11, mike brown <uerusuboyo@> wrote:
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> > Mayka,
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> > I'd like to recommend some music you could listen to, but I'm assuming 
> > you're not much of a Sex Pistols or Motorhead fan. I haven't heard of that 
> > film about a paralyzed man, but when you wrote that ...and he dreams to 
> > have all that.... then I thought he's not so different from us after all!
> >  
> > Mike
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