/lit/ - Literature

I've gone through a phase with just about every genre there is, no matter how alternative or obscure, and I have come to the conclusion that classical (and baroque) music is the only music that is comparable to the literary experience.

It's ironic, as often there are no words, but it feels like the ideas being expressed by the music are just as vivid as lyrics, if not more. Well-made classical music pleases your brain with its timing and harmony, regardless of whether you want to like it or not. This is much like the effect of well-formed writing, when it flows with a pleasing and excites the brain with visceral vocabulary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqAOGduIFbg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quxTnEEETbo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGnxbWvpueE

The 'storm' movement from Vivaldi's Summer (the second of the four seasons after winter) recreates the feeling of a storm so vividly that you can feel it with all five senses. The movement even raises your adrenaline like a real storm does. It feels exciting and slightly terrifying at the same time, like a real storm does.

I would say that (good) classical music actually goes beyond the reach of literature in terms of the vividness and complexity of emotions it can illicit in an audience.

This is coming from someone who has always considered music pleb shit compared to lit, by the way.