Originally Posted by
rigger67
On a serious note, I'm surprised nobody's mentioned songs either played at the funeral of a loved one or the dreaded "our song" of an ex-gf/bf/wife/hubby/partner.
For me, I find it hard to listen to Edith Piaf's .. Rien as it was the last song played at the funeral of a friend's daughter who committed suicide following a severe bout of schizophrenia a few years ago.
I'd known her all her life and she was only 20, fluent in French, studying it at the university where I was working at the time.
I thought I'd cried myself out at the actual funeral and was composing myself to leave when the ceremony came to a close, the curtains closing around her coffin .. then Piaf's voice started up and I began bawling again .. sheesh, I'm not far off it now either :(
But that's personal.
On purely musical terms, I've not really experienced anything like that level of sadness despite loving both Adagio and that Mahler symphony - both great shouts, btw.
Some boffin on here will no doubt explain how the descending cadences of a recidivist chord regression triggers a certain part of the brain before long though ..