5.04.2005

music as an angel

today i was reminded about how music is an angel that stops one from dying/freezing. Schopenhauser regarded music as an angel, because it is an unmediated presentation, whereas all the other arts are representation.

I learnt this off Jallal Toufic who says "The power of music to move us (emotionally and at the level of muscular empathy) is founded on this ability to release us from the freezing; only those who died before dying know the fundamental sense of music that moves us".....
he was refering to Rilke who said
"Who, if I cried out, might hear me - among the ranked Angels?
Even if One suddenly clasped me to his heart
I would die of the force of his being.
For Beauty is only the infant of scarcely endurable Terror,
and we are amazed when it casually spares us."


thats how i also discover the angels