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0 posted 2004-12-12 11:03 PM

Even though I am sentimental and a girl and a music person, I don't just cry with any song, especailly with the first hearing. Only two songs have made me do this:

Adagio for Strings, Op. 11--Samuel Barber

I heard this song in an orchestra concert at my university and it just moved me so strongly.

O Magnum Mysterium (Motet) -- Victoria

I actually heard this one as a recording in Music history class, as example of renissance music. I was quieter about this, since it was class, but just the power of this music was something completely different from anything else I heard.

Both of these instances were due completely to the unique beauty and power of this music. I had no emotional attachment to any lyrics and I wasn't having a bad day either

So what songs have moved you so strongly that you have wept?

Oh, make me Thine forever
And should I fainting be
Lord, let me never ever
Outlive my love for Thee

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1 posted 2004-12-13 12:39 PM

The Wedding March. It took a few years for the tears to kick in, but definitely the Wedding March.

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2 posted 2004-12-13 01:26 AM

Chopin's "Raindrop Prelude"..never fails.

Also, Sonata for Cello & Piano in G minor, Op. 19 - 3 Andante, by Rachmaninoff.

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3 posted 2004-12-13 08:03 AM

Adagio for Strings is my favorite...I heard this played one night during a concert for 9-11 and it took on a whole new meaning...

Music is like effervesent/energy/souls all joining as one, confectionary to the ears, mind, heart and body, a sway of light pulse

Music to me is like an open field of flowing breeze, artistic pastels...interrpriting emotions

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4 posted 2004-12-13 08:14 AM

Native Amercian flute ... haunting, spiritual, healing.

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5 posted 2004-12-13 02:47 PM

Dante's Prayer by Loreena McKennitt.

Especially when sung to me by Linda.

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6 posted 2004-12-13 02:50 PM

Star Spangled Banner...

National Anthem...

and Wind beneath my Wings...but not until after my daughter gave me the CD one year, and said, "Mom, when I hear this song, I think of you..."

and now I can't hear the song without knowing my daughter's feelings, so just up the sandbags, because the dam WILL burst...

I am sure there are a few more songs I can think of, but I don't dare, not while I'm at my house of ball and chain...

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7 posted 2004-12-13 02:53 PM

Thanks for the replies, everyone

But are these favorites because of the music itself, or some associated event, person, or emotion? I'm more interested in the beauty of the music alone, but other replies are awesome too

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8 posted 2004-12-13 03:37 PM

Oh lovely..one of my favourite topics..music.

For me there are many powerful pieces of music which can reduce me to tears from the first chord.

One is Rhapsody On A Theme Of Paganini (Rachmaninoff)
This piece is played in the movie Somewhere in Time although I loved it even before the movie was released back in the early 80's.  A powerful piece of music.

Also, "All I Ask" from Phantom.
Especially if sung by Sarah Brightman.  Why?  Because the words touch me deeply and the music is so beautiful.

Then there is Un Bel Di from Puccini's Madame Butterly.  This one as it reminds me of my late mother so very much. And, when I hear it I cry.

Thanks to her she encouraged my sister and I to learn and appreciate all forms of music.

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9 posted 2004-12-13 04:13 PM

Sarah Brightman and Andre B. (Italian singer-can't spell his last name)

And that song by the righteous brothers when watching "Ghost" with Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze.

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10 posted 2004-12-13 04:21 PM

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

You'll Never Know (just how much I miss you)

I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry

Storybook Love (from The Princess Bride)

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11 posted 2004-12-13 04:22 PM

quote:
But are these favorites because of the music itself, or some associated event, person, or emotion?

Yes.

"Marry me, Bill" and "We've only just begun" erupts from me a comment such as the one that Ron left, above..

"Rhapsody On A Theme Of Paganini" (Rachmaninoff) springs tears to my eyes not only because of its association of the movie, but even now, of the characters played and for the actor we now miss...

Catch me with my hormone level down, and the right music on the station, and I can be a puddle, quickly....

it all depends, honey...it just all depends...

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12 posted 2004-12-13 05:31 PM

"Taps"

Every time.

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13 posted 2004-12-13 05:34 PM

"I Finally Found Someone"

by Barbara Strisand (?) and Bryan Adams.

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14 posted 2004-12-13 07:21 PM

Taps always gets me, too. Anything with bag pipes.

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15 posted 2004-12-14 11:35 AM

I can't say that I've ever cried because of a peice of music but i'm incredibly moved whenever I hear:

- "God Save the Queen"
- "The Last Post"
- "Oh Holy Night"

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16 posted 2004-12-14 12:04 PM

"Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman?"

That one will bring tears to my eyes every time...

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17 posted 2004-12-14 01:38 PM

Lovebug - The two songs I posted make me weepy just because of the music alone.. They aren't necessarily associated with any event in my life..

If that's what you were looking for?

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18 posted 2004-12-14 02:20 PM

Tony Bennet "Oh Danny Boy" Live at Carnegie Hall.

Johnny Nash "I Can See Clearly Now" (played it my daughter's funeral, so now I'm sunk)

Michael W. Smith "Friends" and many more...

If tears could build a stairway and memories a lane, I'd walk right up to heaven and bring you home again.

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19 posted 2004-12-14 10:00 PM

"Circle Game" by Joni Mitchell, brings tears to my eyes,
And the * "Wedding Song" at weddings sung, always makes me cry
Then there's **"Jimmy Brown The Newsboy" a special song to me,
'Cause that sad song, brings back my dad....in a memory;
Who sang it low (when I was six) as I sat upon his knee.

Oh, and I forgot
How ***"Pagliacci", sung by Pavarotti,
For some reason that is strange...
Seems to always choke me up.

*"Wedding Song", Lyrics by Paul Stookey (Peter, Paul And Mary)
** "Jimmy Brown The Newsboy" Lyrics by A.P.Carter -1934
*** Pagliacci" Lyrics by Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919).

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20 posted 2004-12-14 11:32 PM

For some reason, a cappela versions of Martin Luther's music does that to me, especially by A Cappela. Same with 'El Shaddai' by Amy Grant.

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21 posted 2004-12-15 12:12 PM

Joni Mitchell is effortless in making you cry. Her music is so brutally honest and cuts right down to the bone of raw human emotion.

Counting Crows' "A Murder of One" was the one song that always buzzed in my head as I was making the transition stage between my days where I never knew myself and finding my true voice. It still makes me cry each time I listen to it because of its sentimental value and the desperation in Duritz's vocals when he says, "You don't want to waste your life, change, change, change!"

Sarah McLachlan is also effortless in touching my heart. "Angel" always makes me cry, as does "Good Enough" and "Aria".

I really do cry easily lisening to music. Aimee Mann and Jackson Browne in particular gets to my heart a lot. And "Where Have All The Flowers Gone?"

Sincerely,
Noah Eaton

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But if the bright lights don't receive you
You should turn yourself around and come back home" MB20

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22 posted 2004-12-15 12:59 PM

Sarah McLachlan(?)- Mary(Live)
All I Want Is You-U2
Kiss From A Rose - Seal
Two Beds And A Coffee Machine - Savage Garden

All because of the lyrics.. just so haunting to listen to

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23 posted 2004-12-15 07:05 AM

The theme music from "Out of Africa" gets me every time, rain or shine. Non piangere Liu from Turandot also.
I agree with Joni Mitchell being good at tear-jerking. Both sides now is a great favourite.
Eternal Flame also always touches me deeply. Time has told me by Nick Drake, come to think of it Nick Drake music in general: wonderful.
Some of these are just the music and some are the associations.

"Time has told me not to ask for more, one day our ocean will find its shore" ~Nick Drake

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24 posted 2004-12-15 10:12 AM

okay...

oldie: "Honey" and if anyone remembers this I will give them a big fat kiss if they don't reveal just how old it is..

"Last Kiss" (the original)

with Karen on the "Taps" thing...

"cast me gently into the morning, for the night has been unkind"
~Sarah McLachlan~

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25 posted 2004-12-15 10:28 AM

Okay Susan...you owe me!

If tears could build a stairway and memories a lane, I'd walk right up to heaven and bring you home again.

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26 posted 2004-12-15 10:39 AM

"And see the tree how big it's grown..."

Not revealing Susan..

I had a conversation about this topic the other day and a friend of mine, and "Honey" was said to be the one to reduce a person to tears.

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27 posted 2004-12-15 11:33 AM

Amazing Grace with bag pipes!!

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28 posted 2004-12-15 11:40 AM

Honey...yes...

"Tell Laura I love her"...I'm probably the only one here who remembers that one...it ALWAYS made me cry...

Most anything by the Righteous Brothers...

And the musical score behind "Lassie"...sniff sniff...

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29 posted 2004-12-15 11:44 AM

And I think it's Ronnie Milsap's voice that makes me mist over when I hear "Smoky Mountain Rain"

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30 posted 2004-12-15 11:50 AM

Okay Larry. lol

My mom used to play "Honey" when I was growing up, made me cry every time..especially the part about the angels..

"and Honey I miss you and I'm being good."

ahhhhhhh...

my Mom still has it on a 45...

"cast me gently into the morning, for the night has been unkind"
~Sarah McLachlan~

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31 posted 2004-12-15 11:52 AM

and Kari? That "Tell Laura I love her" sounds way familiar..

See my Mom had/has a huge music collection from the 50's, and 60's....I grew up listening to it all...*smile* happy memories

*thank you for that Mommy*

"cast me gently into the morning, for the night has been unkind"
~Sarah McLachlan~

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32 posted 2004-12-15 02:07 PM

My reaction to music is odd in this regard.

If I am watching a film, sometimes the right music is just enough to push me over into quiet weeping (but only if the room is dark - I have this neurosis about crying where anyone can see me).

If I am simply listening to music, I don't cry. Never have yet, at least, without some other stimulus ... like I am already depressed and would have cried eventually anyway.

However, when I sing, I often get choked up when the story gets sad. I seldom can finish Lorena McKennitt's adaptation of "The Lady of Shallott" by Tennyson without my voice becoming querulous at the end.

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33 posted 2004-12-15 02:45 PM

Claire de Lune ~ Debussy
http://www.carolinaclassical.com/articles/debussyclairdelune.html

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34 posted 2004-12-15 10:44 PM

Linda, I can't even sing the National Anthem....nope...

I squeek when I do...

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35 posted 2004-12-15 10:45 PM

And Mysteria?
Clair...always...

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36 posted 2004-12-16 09:19 PM

Great responses everyone!
Kar- Exactly what I'm asking for

Sky- I've never really had trouble with singing touching music. I guess I think of it as sort of a mission, that I Have to sing the song as beautifully as I can so I can give the full beauty of it to the audience. It's my job

Oh, make me Thine forever
And should I fainting be
Lord, let me never ever
Outlive my love for Thee

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37 posted 2004-12-18 10:46 AM

Whiskey Lullaby by Allison Krauss and Brad Paisley.

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38 posted 2004-12-18 11:30 PM

*sigh* music is a very emotional experience for me. i can cry for many songs, depending on my mood, but ones that get me mostly everytime would have to be...

stellar (acoustic) - incubus
Hello - evanescence
for crying out loud - meatloaf
places that you've come to fear the most - dashboard confessional
don't - jewel (probably the most cry worthy... god what a poet that woman is)
the warmth - incubus

beautiful lyrically and the singers ability to 'really sound like they mean the words they are saying'

hehe the list would go on... i'm a very emotional young person. so what? I'm proud of that!!!

-Laura

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39 posted 2005-01-07 04:12 PM

It has been far too long since I have actually been moved to actual tears over music, however there are still certain songs that tend to do a nnumber on my insides. They are (in no particular order):

Superstar (The Carpenters)
Cat's In The Cradle (Harry Chapin)
The Power Of Love (Celine Dion)
Butterfly Kisses (I don't remember)

There is another song that sends me over the moon, emotionally, that I don't know the titel or the artist... It's about a father's love for his son. It goes from the artist and his father, to the artist and his son to the artist and the Father.
Anyways... these are my thoughts.

In the wooden chair
Beside my window
I wear a face born in the falling rain

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40 posted 2005-01-07 05:41 PM

Vincent by Don Mclean always get to me.

Puff the magic dragon because to me it represents lost innocence (don't know why...it just does)

Whiskey Lullaby for sure

Letters from home (John Montgomery) because it is so fitting with times we live in

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41 posted 2005-01-07 06:35 PM

That's funny, Linda - I never cry when I sing, but other people sure seem to...

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42 posted 2005-01-07 09:00 PM

Being with you, by smokey Robinson. just the words...since about the 4th grade that one got to me...I was a hopeless romantic before I knew what being one was...

Prince has one - 17 days... that one makes me a cry baby...

Crazy Love by Poco

When the thought of you catches up with me by David Ball...that one is due to accociation with a very special person.
Oh and
Last date by Floyed Cramer but it isn't sad tears...it's just cause it's soooo pretty...(I love that song)

Oh and if I am not close (physically) to where my mom is around Christmas, I will loose it every time I hear Silver Bells.
She used to play that on the piano when I was really young and I accociate that song with her at Christmas time.

I bet there are more...I'm a cry baby...LOL

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43 posted 2005-01-07 10:31 PM

"Adagio for Strings, Op. 11--Samuel Barber" I'm impressed. This is one that moves me as well. Also;

Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Scheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov

(even attributed the weep at the first listen in this prose poem; /pip/Forum50/HTML/002100.html

Lacrimosa by Wolfgang Amadeus

(this one crumpled me. you can hear it on the link of this poem but may have to look a click or two /pip/Forum91/HTML/001413.html

and just today I found my new obsession. I didn't cry but I was (am) moved by this and will have to get the CD this

Bellatrix by Rene Gruss

a portion of which can be heard here http://www.renegruss.com/Music.htm

Those are all classical

I am moved by Judy Collins'
La Chanson des Vieux Amants (The Song Of The Old Lovers) and 'Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye on her Wildflowers CD which I used to listen to as a lonely 16 year old at an all boys boarding school in 1969

Jacque Brel's Les Vieux (Old Folks) will sadden and his Ne Me Quitte Pas (If You Go Away) which was translated by Rod McKuen and made famous by Sinatra

Gillian Welch's Annabelle still stings introduced as it was by a short time abandon love

I'm sure I could dig up more but don't want to be a board hog.

Thanks for sharing

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44 posted 2005-01-12 11:35 PM

Lacrimosa by Wolfgang Amadeus

His whole requiem rocks my world, RS, but I must say I favor Brahms' requiem a bit more

Thanks everyone

Oh, make me Thine forever
And should I fainting be
Lord, let me never ever
Outlive my love for Thee

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45 posted 2005-01-13 12:38 PM

cry or tear up?

Sorrow - byHans Zimmer/Lisa Gerrard (from Gladiator and Naudet brother's documentary 9/11)
Adagio For Strings - Samuel Barber
Arms of the Angels - Sarah McLachlan
Vivaldi Seasons - any part of it, just for the beauty of the string work
Hurt - NiN.. the first time i heard that
Anything with pipes can do it..even Mull Of Kintyre

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