This Episode’s Music: Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (Organ)

2,514 characters2007.06.15

http://csm01.csu.edu.tw/0361/Instru-Organ-Bach-565.mp3
I hunted down quite a few pieces of music that sounded good to me recently, but I couldn’t find any of them online, and I can’t even get into Google Pages anymore—it really drives me mad. Oh well, never mind; I’ll just post something I found before at random. Back when I was choosing Bach pieces, I hesitated between the harpsichord and the organ. This time I might as well just post the organ one too~

The piano is said to cover the whole range, but the organ is even wider. If the piano is the king of instruments, then the organ is a god—it really is generally only found in churches, and organ pieces invariably have a strong religious feeling.

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mist
2007-06-19 20:12:12 Anonymous 124.17.16.44

GP has been blocked by the GFW~ so I suggest you apply for Office Live, M$’s bus service is better than Google’s~ the free basic version has 500M of space~ by the way, I like the organ not because of its religious feeling but because of its sense of sin; there seem to be pieces in Castlevania performed on the organ~
Gǔ Chù
2007-06-20 11:41:12

Speaking of which, what’s the difference between a religious feeling and a feeling of sin? Is guilt not the main theme of Christianity?
mist
2007-06-20 14:09:55 Anonymous 124.17.16.44

I’d rather the theme of Christianity were salvation, even though salvation is relative to the guilty. In Christianity this sin mostly refers to original sin, and for people like us who do not believe in Christianity, original sin is pure fiction; even if it existed, it would be something from many generations before our ancestors, and has nothing to do with us. The sense of sin comes more from all the wrongs we ourselves have personally committed.
And for the one who is guilty, evil does not necessarily need to be redeemed—and Dracula might think that, for himself, the more evil the better~
mist
2007-06-20 14:13:32 Anonymous 124.17.16.44

Without religion, there can still be evil; and without evil, perhaps there would be no religion.
Gǔ Chù
2007-06-20 19:24:45

There cannot be no evil. Original sin is not telling you about things from many generations before your ancestors; it is telling you that human existence can never escape evil. You are always existing within evil, and you are always an evil existence.
What Christians confess while listening to religious music usually is not original sin, of course, but also the wrongs they themselves have personally committed.
Who is Dracula? When I look at that I think of Duckula…… “when the moon moves to a certain fixed position”……
mist
2007-06-21 03:51:06 Anonymous 124.17.16.44

I have nearly the complete set of Duckula~ if you want it, when will you come over and use my hard drive to copy it?
Dracula is Duckula’s prototype, the vampire count. Legend has it that, because of the death of the one he loved, he betrayed God and vowed to live on blood~