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Title: Need Transcendentalist Music Ideas
Post by: Anonymous on December 14, 2009, 11:57:23 AM

I am creating a lesson on Transcendentalism... I need a music model.  Any ideas for a great song that is emblematic of transcendentalist philosophy? Lyrics about non-conformity, social justice, individualism or any other transcendental themes - something that screams out ideas posited by Henry David Thoreau or Ralph Waldo Emerson...

Sorry to bother you - I can't hear music well (near deaf) and need some help! Gracias!

Title: Re: Need Transcendentalist Music Ideas
Post by: SEKTO on December 14, 2009, 02:56:08 PM

Hare Krsna.  PAMHO AGTSP.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxCCYBKXn44 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxCCYBKXn44)

A good place to begin would be with Q. Lazzarus' "Goodbye Horses."  Not just the Buffalo Bill theme, this is an awesome song about transcendence over a realization of the world that is merely finite and temporal.  The "horses" represent the five senses from sanatana-dharma philosophy (Bhagavad-Gita 6:34). In lifting one’s perception above physical limitations, beyond this Earthly perspective, one can thereby realize The Transcendence.  

http://www.asitis.com/gallery/plate23.html (http://www.asitis.com/gallery/plate23.html)

The meaning: In an Eastern philosophy "horses" are symbolic/representative of the 5 senses - the things that keep us tied to the physical/material plane of existence. When you can transcend the limitations of these senses and achieve a higher level of consciousness, you are leaving the "horses" behind - "flying over them." The song is about someone who was so affected by (A loss? A breakup?) they decide to give up the things that keep them tied to this world by emotion.

http://www.psyche-hq.de/goodbye-horses/ (http://www.psyche-hq.de/goodbye-horses/)

Title: Re: Need Transcendentalist Music Ideas
Post by: Anonymous on December 14, 2009, 03:29:52 PM

Return to Tunguska  
Shpongle W/ Alan Parsons - David Gilmour

Title: Re: Need Transcendentalist Music Ideas
Post by: starry-eyed pirate on December 23, 2009, 09:09:57 PM

Bob Marley.  "The Mighty God is a Livin man".  That's pretty transcendental.

In the way I'm lookin, it seems like the whole rasta trip is biblical transcendentalism, or somethin...in a way.

Right On man.   :poison:  O0  :poison:

Title: Need Transcendentalist Music Ideas
Post by: Anonymous on December 23, 2009, 11:48:06 PM

I know a good lesson for you.  Jerk off to let the bodies hit the floor!

Title: Re: Need Transcendentalist Music Ideas
Post by: Froderik on December 23, 2009, 11:58:53 PM

Quote from: "starry-eyed pirate"

Bob Marley.  "The Mighty God is a Livin man".  That's pretty transcendental.

In the way I'm lookin, it seems like the whole rasta trip is biblical transcendentalism, or somethin...in a way.

Right On man.   :poison:  O0  :poison:

I think you're on to something there...and you hear that in a lot of the early Wailers stuff...

To the Original Poster: try Tibetan Ritual Music.

Title: Re: Need Transcendentalist Music Ideas
Post by: Anonymous on December 25, 2009, 05:57:40 AM

P. Gabriel's 'Solsbury Hill' is, I think, transcendental:

" I did not believe the information,
"  I just had to trust imagination"

and then, later:

" I was feelin' part of the scenery,
" so I walked right out of the machinery"

Title: Re: Need Transcendentalist Music Ideas
Post by: Ursus on January 15, 2010, 12:36:35 AM

Two traditional Rhodopian tunes:

Music Idol - Nevena Coneva Final ("Izlel e Delio haidutin")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ8u4i4SDSk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ8u4i4SDSk)[/list]

Neli Petkova - Kalimanku Denku
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RnHnMQeHG0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RnHnMQeHG0)[/list]

A different performance of the latter here, although the volume is a bit squelched:

Nelly Petkova - Kalimanko Denko
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udbszmY5DxE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udbszmY5DxE)[/list]