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⌈ Secret Post #2426 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Re: this entire thread.

If the lyrics are so utterly important, why does anyone bother listening to Carmina Burana? Few people understand the words.

Do you really not appreciate music for the melody or the rhythm? Why not just read poetry instead if the lyrics are what make it for you?

[(Anonymous)]

The point is that the whole makes it, neither the music nor the lyrics alone.

Furthermore, lyrics have more function than just their meaning as well (compare someone mumbling through something from the Adiemus project versus clearly using the actual sounds Jenkins made up for it).

As for the Carmina Burana - I don't know about live performances, but most CDs come with translations, no? Plus, part of the lyrics at least will be familiar to anyone speaking a language that developed in a Roman-occupied territory.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh? Let's flip that: do you really not appreciate how phrasing can contribute to a piece of music? Why not just listen to instrumentals instead if that's what makes it for you?

A person's voice is an instrument, and lyrics are a part of a song. Completely dismissing them and declaring that they are not important at all is not really much different from declaring that melody and rhythm aren't important.

By the way: what do you think of opera? Do you think the lyrics are unimportant to that art form? Do you think it would have the exact same impact if there were no words at all, or if the words were nonsensical and did not tell a story? Do you think it would have the exact same impact if the words were spoken rather than sung? Sure, people can and do appreciate the great operas without understanding the words -- but that appreciation is magnified greatly when you actually do understand them, because they absolutely do matter.

[(Anonymous)]

literally no one is saying that the lyrics are the only part of music that matters. what they're saying is that lyrics are a part of music. are you serious right now.