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November 20, 2007 at 4:07 PM

"If music be the food of love, play on..." Duke Orsino in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

Music is the motivation, fertilizer, or bread for many emotions. I am not in love, yet. Well, I love God, my mom, and brother and others, but I mean in love with a boy. I guess the music that would fuel the most pain, aggravation, provocation, butterflies and whatever else is associated with falling in love would be Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D Major. This is a highly romantic concerto with its wide-spanning rhythmic feelings and tonal colors.

I want Tchaik to be played at my wedding. I also associate marriage with death, so I would like to have the Tchaik played at my funeral. :) (Gosh, just kidding; do not have a heart attack.)

I think the Canzonetta is perfect for a funeral. I play it every year in the place where we scattered my mother's ashes. So, your instinct is good on that one.
Given the circumstances in which it was composed, your intuition that the Tchaikovsky is perfect for falling in love is spot-on....only in Tchaikovsky's case it was doomed to be unrequited. Poor guy...