(This is a Christmas-love Lovesong, not a Valentine-love Lovesong. )
SONGS MAY BE classified under one of two kinds. The first is primarily mood-carrying and the second is primarily message-carrying. Pure music is wordless, and carries only melodies, harmonies of melodies, beat or rhythm, and sound textures, which are not very useful for message-carrying, except messages of moods, namely the moods of the composer or of the performer(s).
To carry messages beyond moods, song composers usually have to "borrow" creations from other fields of aesthetics, namely poems, which we call “lyrics,” from the field of literary writing.
Below are lines of lyrics from the refrain of a song promoting and propagating the message of Love, Peace, Joy, a very apt theme for this Christmas season and for the succeeding period of the “SING OUT our LOVE, PEACE, JOY!” project which starts on the very first minute of 2011, spreads worldwide, and may eventually refuse to end.
Here’s that stanza from the refrain, the words clearly carrying to all who hear a clear message of hope and joy…
Harmony and understanding,
Sympathy and trust abounding,
No more falsehoods or derisions,
Golden living dreams of vision,
Mystic crystal revelation,
And the mind’s true liberation…
Aquarius! Aquarius!
After reading, we now invite you to mouse-click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EegRh8Z4H-o, to enjoy the mood that the song’s cheerful melody, harmony and rhythm carry together. A loving, cheerful and joyful Christmas to all of us! (Click at the leftward arrow at the top left corner of the monitor screen to go back to this blogsite page where the lyrics of the entire song are at the very bottom.)
Further, we invite you to SING OUT with us, and to invite others to do the same. We are going to have a lot of happily Singing Out together to do in the coming happy New Year!
When the Moon
Is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars,
Then peace will guide our planets,
And love will steer the stars!
This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius,
The Age of Aquarius... Aquarius!
Harmony and understanding,
Sympathy and trust abounding,
No more falsehoods or derisions,
Golden living dreams of vision,
Mystic crystal revelation,
And the mind’s true liberation…
Aquarius! Aquarius!
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