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Music is one of themain creations of human beings – they create it and live with it. Hence selecting the metaphor of a melody to be the core of our story of the human life course is not an accidental choice. Our lives are filled with melodies of various kinds and functions – ranging from the lullabies mothers sing to their babies to get them to sleep to the neverending flow of Christmas carols played in pre-New Year shopping places, to our own individual humming of favourite melodies when involved in somemundane activity. Themelodies of church bells, calls to prayer from the minarets of the mosques or marching bands leading public events are all examples of how deeply music saturates our lives. Melodies have permanence. If you know the music of Elvis Presley, Bach, Robert Smith or Ray Charles, then you will recognize immediately, after a few notes, a new or unknown version of one of their pieces. If, on the other hand, you are familiar with visual art, you will recognize in any museum, and at first sight, a piece as a Matisse, a Rembrandt or a Bruce Neumann.We live in a world of patterns –musical or visual – that we have created out of the need to live our human lives. Why is this so? Let us propose that it is a matter of style and of motives. In the musical creations by Shostakovich, for example, there is a certain atmosphere, coming from the composer’s time, his life in central Europe, his familiarity with traditional Moravian music as well as emerging jazz. Yet there are also, like a signature, little motives or musical phrases that appear, with all kinds of variation, inmost of his pieces – a specificmelody. Similarly, we identify people’s writing, or we recognize old friends from afar because of their general silhouette or their way of moving. If there is something so unique in each person’s externalization – their movements, paintings, expressions – than there is probably something unique, too, about their lives. And indeed, there is a unique way in which each of us lives through our life: how we understand it, what sorts of question we |
