4th. Darwin: Music of Sweethearting

Hello, everyone! This is your DJ, Mi-Hyun Kim.
It's the 4th time of SMV.(Scientist; Music. ver)

Happy christmas has gone and now it's the end of this year.
How have everyone been doing in this cold winter?

I'm listening more music in winter especially in my case.
"Music" includes Christmas carol which makes me merry.
Furthermore, many fabulous concerts are waiting for us.
Besides, because of the cold weather,
I stayed home more than before
and that makes me listen to more music.

So, how about you?
You've been having "warm winter" with good music?

Which things are come up in your mind as a matter of winter?
I have some ideas of listening to romantic music with sweetheart.

Do you even know, there's a scientist who explain
that romantic music with his own theory?
Now, let's find out who he is.

That scientist was born in 1809 in England.
He is Charles Robert Darwin.
He was a biologist who defined the theory of evolution, that is Darwinism.
He started his career as a biologist in 1931,
boarding in the Beagle as the position of scientist.
For the details, Beagle was a navy's surveying vessel.
He had explored from North America to the South Pacific Ocean.

From that time he had joined so many sailing
and researching for over 20 years,
he set his own theory beyond the absolute doctrine of creation without doubt.

Charles Darwin is so called "Progenitor in theory of Evolution."
Then what would be the relation between him and music?

His all theories are based on the theory of the evolution.

In addition, according to his theory of music,
the origin of music is related with the ecology
and the theory of evolution of the bird.
He had started to find the origin of music
from observing of the bird's movement.

< Music is generated from the animal's sound
(the song of the bird) and imitation that sound.
The music imitation is originated from the sweethearting of the opposite sex,
that is from a sexual urge. >

This is called, the origin of music; Theory of a sexual urge.
These days, however, his theory is not accepted perfectly of course.
Nevertheless, isn't it interesting that the connection
between the origin of music and the sweethearting?
Especially with the theory of evolution and the point of that view?

If I summarize his theory with my view with a little bit of analyzation,
the output would be like this.

"Music has started from the sweethearting."

It sounds really romantic that music is generated
from the sweethearting, isn't it?

There had been many songs which were for the sweethearting
throughout the world, meaning from the east to the west.

For instance, the ancient time of Orpheus and Eurydice,
and Romeo and Juliet and love song that you might listen to in this morning,

those songs (music) that is for sweethearting is all around us.

 

That's why I'm going to talk about the "Serenade" from now on.
As you know, serenade is regarded as a common love song.

The meaning of Serenade is the music of the evening,
and it has been the song that a lover sang or played
in front of the lover in the evening.
Serenade's main player was plucked string instrument,
like guitar and mandolin and with that accompaniment,
a lover sand a love song.

I think serenade is the most appropriate symbol
and the way of the changeover from nothing to invisible feelings,
and hearable sound.

Like the saying, "Tugging at a person's heartstrings,"
serenade is the messenger who delivers the trembling of the heart's beating,
 and it pervades each lover's hear like waving the white horses.

Do you think that this is the magical power of music?

I think some of you might think of songs
with an acoustic guitar that you heard or sang.

And that music is the connector of our memory
and the range would be broader and broader.
And in that range we all stand in there.

Darwin who regards music as a sweethearting,
and you who remember the song in the past,
all of us are communicating with each other in one or other ways.

Listen carefully.
Although it may be a really small sound,
we can hear it as we give some caution.

At last, I'll finish the writing with some songs of serenade.
I hope this story would be the memory among all of you and me.
And I truly hope all of you can finish this year, and also mine.

Have a wonderful and warm the end of year with your loving people!
I sincerely hope so.

 

  

Jascha Heifetz plays Rondo
 (from Serenade No. 7 "Haffner", K. 250) by Mozart.









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