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Do You Get Chills When Listening To Certain Music?
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~Shard~ said:
Oh man.. I rememer playing the finale of tchaik 4.
I got 3 notes in the whole movement.
It matured me so much as a musician to play that.
It was a side-by-side concert with the houston symphony.. IT WAS AWESOME!
(*is hyped up because she's listening to Shosty's 8th string quartet, and is soon to download some Shosty 9th symphony from iTunes*)
edited to add:
Saint-Saën's 3rd.. When the Organ has the huge chord. EVERY TIME, I get chills. I used to wake up to it.
Such an amazing moment.
Counterfit
macrumors G3
My tuba/euphonium quartet has an AWESOME arrangement of the Chorale from Jupiter. And of course, being conical low brass, we sound great on it. 😀~Shard~ said:
That chorale usually gives me chills
That's why I don't hang around with any of my non-music dork friends. Of course, I don't have any non-music dork friends, aside from the people I work with (who don't even know who Duke Ellington was 😡 ). Heck, I could say something about Dvörak to my parents, and they would know exactly who I was talking about (Unless, being a geek, I was talking about the keyboard layout or the columnist). I suppose that happens when they've both been teaching music for over 30 years, and you go to their alma mater, and even have some of the same professors they did back in the day.k.t. said:
To me, getting chills generally happens when I hear the song actually being song in person. For example, at Beta Club convention last week, there is a talent portion and the last person to take the stage sang "Jesus, Take the Wheel," extremely well I might add, and I got chills up and down my spine. But I often find that hearing an exceptional speaker can also do it, I heard James Carville speak at SIU back in February and it did the same thing to me.
Yes, I actually do get chills. I just couldn't tell you what songs off of the top of my head. Usually ones that remind me of my past in some way.
plinkoman
macrumors 65816
I'm so glad to see people in here get chills to real music. the illusion that you are being somehow affected by rock and pop music, and all the meaning behind lyrics is such a load of ****
you want real chills, may i suggest listening to one of Wagner's operas. I've listened to act 2, scene 4, of Lohengrin about 100 times and it never fails to send shivers down my spine.
you want real chills, may i suggest listening to one of Wagner's operas. I've listened to act 2, scene 4, of Lohengrin about 100 times and it never fails to send shivers down my spine.
DISCOMUNICATION
macrumors 6502a
The chills?
Certain songs don't always do it to me. Sometimes it's just songs I haven't heard in a long time. And if you listen to one of those songs that gives you the chills too often it loses it's effect on you. Songs that have had that effect on me most recently....
I hadn't listened to The Mars Volta in a while so Circatriz ESP caught me by surprise. Can't get that bass line out of my head.
Nine Inch Nails' And All That Could Have Been always gets to me. The entire Still disc is beautiful.
And All That Could Have Been:
Please
Take this
And run far away
Far away from me
I am
Tainted
The two of us
Were never meant to be
All these
Pieces
And promises and left behinds
If only I could see
In my
Nothing
You meant everything
Everything to me
Certain songs don't always do it to me. Sometimes it's just songs I haven't heard in a long time. And if you listen to one of those songs that gives you the chills too often it loses it's effect on you. Songs that have had that effect on me most recently....
I hadn't listened to The Mars Volta in a while so Circatriz ESP caught me by surprise. Can't get that bass line out of my head.
Nine Inch Nails' And All That Could Have Been always gets to me. The entire Still disc is beautiful.
And All That Could Have Been:
Please
Take this
And run far away
Far away from me
I am
Tainted
The two of us
Were never meant to be
All these
Pieces
And promises and left behinds
If only I could see
In my
Nothing
You meant everything
Everything to me
joepunk
macrumors 68030
Yes I get chills when listening to certain pieces of music. Some songs even bring tears because the they remind me of certain events in my past.
While driving around my hometown I listened to a powerful song by Christine Fellows - Vertebrae (the song title). Very nice and powerful song.
While driving around my hometown I listened to a powerful song by Christine Fellows - Vertebrae (the song title). Very nice and powerful song.
Applespider
macrumors G4
UKnjb
macrumors 6502a
A few years ago, The Times ran a poll of their readers to send in what they called pieces of music with "the highest spine-tingling quotient". The top-10 got published (can't remember the whole list), but it had pieces like the Faure Requiem, Barber's Adaggio in it. However, at the number 1, by a country mile, most spine-tingling was something I had never heard of. It was Allegri's Miserere (performed by the Tallis Scholars as the reference version). I went an bought it stat - and they had got that one right IMO. Worked for me then, and it still does. Awesome awesome music.
anything by Bread, because for one week I listened to an album, in my sleep every night, on repeat.
Every time I hear "When the Tigers Broke Free" by Pink Floyd I get the chills. The song's barely over a minute, and it's the most powerful song I've ever heard. It recalls the death of Roger Water's Father's death.
jadekitty24
macrumors 65816
Oh yes, I get the chills when I hear music that moves me. Metallica's "Four leaf Clover" and "Call of Ktula" was done live with some orchestra, can't remember the name, and man...every time I hear it I shiver. The Transiberian (probably didn't spell it right) Orchestra is awesome. Something about mixing classic orchestral instruments with electric guitar just sounds so powerful and awe-inspiring. On a cheasier note, Christina Aguilara's "Fighter" gives me the chills, when it gets to that part where she really belts it out.
No idea what causes it, but for me it's e lucevan le stelle from Puccini's Tosca when sung by Placido Domingo. First time I heard that was when he sang at the Union Buildings in Pretoria and it completely mesmerised me. Got it on CD now and it blows me away every time.
Has to be Domingo though. No-one else does it right.
Has to be Domingo though. No-one else does it right.
Applespider said:
Heh, you stole mine--beautiful piece of music. Movt 2 always gets me. I worked a performance of this piece by Sharon Isbin a few years back; it was fantastic.
Add to the list some Stravinsky, Debussy and, strangely enough, I got the shivers recently listening to a Babbit piece for soprano and tape.
StealthRider
macrumors 65816
mad jew said:
The piece is composed by Barber, all the rest of the people just twisted it a little...😛
Anyway, mark me up for that one. For those of you who have only listened to it, playing it is just an emotionally draining experience. After the four measures of release Katie was talking about, it was almost impossible to get my bow hand steady enough to play the very quiet remainder of the song...I never thought I'd get it there.
Incidentally, Katie, did you play the violin I, II, or viola part of Adagio?
StealthRider said:
Hoooo... it IS amazing to play.
I played the 2nd violin part.
IT WAS AMAZING PERFORMING IT IN PRAUGE! We were in this OLD cathedral in the old town centre in Prague, and it was SO RESONANT! When I hit that C flat (I think.. I don't have the music in front of me) and we all cut off...
AHH! I'm getting chills, just thinking about it! Oooo...
Then, 2 days after I got back from Europe, I was in a Wet Seal, and I heard the MOST HORRIFIC electronic remix of Adagio for Strings. I complained to the manager. 😛