Words on Music (Part 1): Jacques Loussier - Siciliano in G Minor (J.S. Bach)

Hello to all my students,

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How are you in this new year? I hope you had a relaxing holiday. Here I will introduce a new collection of your writing called Words on Music. It's your writing on the pieces of music that you did before. 

I hope you can enjoy this writing again, and I hope it can help you in your final writing projects. I was very impressed with what many of you did in writing about music. 

To save time, I will only publish a selection of your writing, and not all of it, but will try to show some good examples of your writing. So here are some samples of what you wrote on the first piece of music - Jacques Loussier's version of Bach's Siciliano in G Minor. Here is the music from YouTube once again: 

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I have edited them as little as possible, to keep your thoughts and feelings as true to yourselves as possible. Here they are:

This piece of music is such a sad image. I can image a story from this song. The girl agonizes about something. She wants an answer something. But it doesn’t seem to find. So she decided to go for a walk. After a while, she saw a forest and a lake. There are many little birds and creatures. And she thought it is great for living things all over the world.

I associate this with a young clergyman walking in the morning. He is in a big church and he is exposed to alight from glasses. However, his face looks not happy as if he has an anxiety. He cannot afford notice calling his name by bishop. The road in church is too short for him to walk and think so he will go out soon. 

This is a strong image is a bar. In bar, I am drinking wine with my boyfriend. We enjoy spending time along together, and we drank a lot of wine. Time passed very slowly. In that place, so we have a very relaxing time. That day is our anniversary, so I was given the present by him. I was very glad to get this present from him, and I give a present for him. He was glad too. I felt like our relationship got deeper.

I felt both sadness and pleasure from this music and I imagined the story about two children, one is boy, other is girl. They are playing together happily in somewhere, but it is imagination of boy grew up, so it is past of this boy. He remembers, but his memory never came back. What happened to boy and girl, he only knows. It is sadness I felt from this music. 

This music is romantic. I imagine two people, a man and a woman. They are eating at quality restaurant. They drink wine. In their circumference, there is the person dancing to music. A man stare her in the face. They are in love each other. He cannot convey love to her. She feels irritated because she wants to tell her feeling to him early, too. They continue silence for a while. When the music stop, he says “I love you.”

This is quiet and elegant. The main sound is a piano. This is repetition but I thought that music is to listen to again and again. When I studied to listen in this music, I will be able to learning to relax. I often listen to this music in coffee shop or otolaryngology. I think the story of this music is that one man is listening to this music quietly while sitting in a chair in a café in a small port town. The man was dumped by women. He was shocked enough to drop. 




This piece of music is light. Someone goes up stair and arrive at new home. New home look like a castle. The garden has a lot of flower. Someone open the window, look at the sky. Someone carried many luggages into the home. The luggage has a lot of kind of things. For example, teddy bear, clothes, books, pictures, pens and CDs. One of the CD is this music. It is someone's most favorite CD. Someone is a little girl.

This piece of music is gloomy, season is autumn. A woman, she is broken heated ballerina is dancing to a ballad for she loved boyfriend. There is nobody on a stage, nobody audience, no stage lighting, but she is keeping on dancing. She is thinking to love boyfriend. But her mind is not conveyed to him. Even if she injured her feet, she keeping on dancing for her boyfriend. Dead leaves leave the outside sorrowfully.

There is a girl who wears a black dress in a lobby of airport. She is going to set out a distant town of Europe to grant her dream. She exchanged good-byes with her family and her friends. Some of them cried. But she smiled at them.

Once upon a time, there was the princess. The princess learned piano for a long time. So she practiced it. But one time, she was interested in one person. She saw him through the window. But she didn’t meet him and talk with him. So she did not know him very well. And he did not know her at all. But she fell in love. After a while, her dad introduced her to the person who dad wants her to marry with. She did not decide to her destiny. Because her parent’s right was strong. And she has ever stood. But this time is special for her. So she decided to run away from her house in her mind. She played the piano in her house at last. She remembered her life. Sometimes, she did not want leave with her parents. But she ran away from her house.

This song is like a feeling of a young mother going somewhere to abandon her children, she does 
not have money to feed her children, so she will abandon her children in front of a house that looks like with a rich family inside, with a family richer than her, so probably the children will have a better life. For me this song demonstrate the unstable feelings and thoughts that she had when she go to abandon her children. At the beginning she feel that she is doing the right thing, with her act her children will be more happier in other family maybe her children can achieve something great! But in the way to the place she get regretful, she think about her living with her children, with many problems that her children causes but which makes her happy. 

I hope these are meaningful to you as much as they are meaningful to me. You have shown some incredible images! I am impressed.

More to come in Part 2!