Music for the Soul [Video]

BeethovenJill Mattson – Fabien Maman reflected on the impact of Beethoven’s music. “It is not possible to read or write while listening to Beethoven. [1] His music disturbs. Indifference is impossible around a Beethoven symphony because this music vibrates all of the bodies, from the physical to the subtlest. With his music, Beethoven puts us in resonance physically, emotionally and spiritually.” [2]

Maman continued, “Beethoven can set the imagination soaring. He moved humanity forward with his revolutionary dissonances, harmonies and structure. Beethoven himself understood the deepest esoteric purposes for his music. ‘Life resembles the vibration of the sound and the human is like the play of the strings.’ Beethoven said, ‘Whoever understands my music will free himself from the misery in which all others are entrenched.'” [3]

Beethoven expressed the entire gamut of emotions, making him a great musical psychologist… creating the energy for psychoanalysis which came shortly thereafter, Cyril Scott described

Beethoven’s musical influence, “Now the Victorian age, with its prudishness and proprieties was an age of repressions. The emotions which ought to have found an outlet were forced inwards, with results that were exceedingly detrimental to the nervous system.” [4]

Scott continued, “Many pious people in the era were surprisingly intolerant and unsympathetic.” [5] People did not acknowledge grief, depravation, sickness and yearning in others and themselves. They suppressed passions that they were ashamed of. They disparately needed emotional outlets.

Beethoven’s music supplied this and more. After listening to the great depths of Beethoven’s music one carved internal space for understanding of another’s pain and that produced compassion. When we understand, we forgive and charity grows.

Beethoven’s composition master, Chrisian Neefe, was a known Mason and probably a member of the secret Illuminati. Beethoven dedicated his piano sonata, Opus 28, to the known grand master, the Priory of Sion, [6] Joseph von Sonnenfels. Beethoven composed Maurefragen, meaning Masonic Questions, establishing another link to the esoteric school of thought. [7] Beethoven understood ancient ideas regarding the power of music.

Scott made a keen observation that subtle music requires more time to produce observable results as compared to invigorating music. “It is a general rule that the more facile and exhilarating a type of music, the more immediate its effects… Beethoven’s music took about 100 years to reach the plentitude of its influence.” [8]

After the music of Beethoven was widely enjoyed, charities flourished. Education was permitted in prisons. Scott added, “It is the prostitute and the foundling, the incurable and the very aged – those who have perhaps never even heard his name – who in reality owe him most of all.” [9]

Maman reflected on Beethoven’s use of the interval of the seventh that was often shunned in earlier music, “It was Ludwig Van Beethoven who first introduced the seventh interval in music to western Europeans’ ears, initiating all who listened to his music into the challenges of the seventh interval, whether or not they were ready.

Hector Berlioz, in his biography of Beethoven, said that the first time that Beethoven’s music was played in the Paris Opera Hall, the consciousness of the audience ‘exploded.’ Human consciousness was ‘opened suddenly’ and received forever a new impulse which it would never forget.” [10]

[1] Ludwig van Beethoven 1770 -1827 was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western classical music. He remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.

[2] Maman, Fabien. The Role of Music in the Twenty-First Century, Tamo-Do Press: Boulder, Colorado, 1997, Pg. 41.

[3] Maman, Fabien. The Role of Music in the Twenty-First Century, Tamo-Do Press: Boulder, Colorado, 1997, Pg. 42.

[4] Scott, Cyril. Music Its Secret Influences throughout the Ages, Samuel Wisner: N.Y., 1958, Pg. 67.

[5] Scott, Cyril. Music Its Secret Influences throughout the Ages, Samuel Wisner: N.Y., 1958, Pg. 64.

[6] The Priory of Sion, a strictly secret and Hermetic sect, was made famous in the book and movie, Da Vinci Code. The ancient group believes themselves to be off spring of the married Jesus Christ.

[7] Merrick, Richard. Interference: A Grand Scientific Musical Theory, Merrick: Houston, 1990, Pg. 66.

[8] Scott, Cyril. Music Its Secret Influences throughout the Ages, Samuel Wisner: N.Y., 1958, Pg. 189.

[9] Scott, Cyril. Music Its Secret Influences throughout the Ages, Samuel Wisner: N.Y., 1958, Pg. 69.

[10] Maman, Fabien. The Role of Music in the Twenty-First Century, Tamo-Do Press: Boulder, CO., 1997, Pg. 30.


https://youtu.be/GLfZHSkiLUs

1. Symphony n. 6 Op. 68 “Pastoral”: I. Allegro ma non troppo 00:00
2. Symphony n. 6 Op. 68 “Pastoral”: II. Andante molto mosso
10:51
3. Symphony n. 8 Op. 93: I. Allegro vivace e con brio
21:36
4.Symphony n. 8 Op. 93: II. Allegretto scherzando
29:13
5. Piano Concerto n. 3 Op. 37: II. Largo
41:47
6. Piano Concerto n. 3 Op. 37: III. Rondò. Allegro
51:36
7. Violin Concerto Op. 61: II. Larghetto
01:00:52
8. Violin Concerto Op. 61: III. Rondò
01:13:29
9. Symphony n. 8 Op. 93: III. Minuetto”
01:20:48
10. Symphony n. 7 Op.92 “Allegro con brio”
01:25:29
11.Piano Concerto n. 3: II. Largo
01:32:37
12. Piano Concerto n. 1: II. Largo
01:43:54
13. Symphony n. 7 Op. 92: I. Poco sostenuto
01:53:24
14. Symphony n. 7 Op. 92: II. Allegretto
02:05:10

SF Source Jill’s Wings of Light Oct 2020

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