Music that we go to...
- Thread starter Palerider
- Start date
I agree. This is the first time I’ve thought of them in the context of my husband’s dementia though.
For me ‘thank you for the days’ just sums it all up’💜
Oh I hadn’t heard that before. It is beautiful. If we were at a ‘do’ we’d always be on the dance floor. If a song we liked was played and we were not near each other we’d look across the room, James would Point at me , mouth ‘you’, point at the dance floor and we’d meet in the middle. Family thought it was a hoot.
And another one. I watched The Masked Singer, guilty secret, and even a person dressed as a piranha singing this brought on the tears. Music is just so powerful.
Hi @GillP
My OH and I used to use the words from the sitcom the Liver Birds for when we wanted to dance:
"You dancin'?"
"You askin'?"
"I'm askin'"
"I'm dancin'"
😄😄
Now that will always make me think of Francie and Josie - Jack Milroy and Rikki Fulton. Rikki Fulton was another who had dementia and he died a good few years ago now.
Sorry this doesn’t come with subtitles!🤣
Francie and Josie: The daft duo who had Glasgow in stitches
GLASGOW has played host to a galaxy of Hollywood stars over the decades – but sometimes the brightest ones shone much closer to home.
www.glasgowtimes.co.uk
@Izzy, I’ve just seen this and it made me laugh out loud. Thank you!Now that will always make me think of Francie and Josie - Jack Milroy and Rikki Fulton. Rikki Fulton was another who had dementia and he died a good few years ago now.
Sorry this doesn’t come with subtitles!🤣
Francie and Josie: The daft duo who had Glasgow in stitches
GLASGOW has played host to a galaxy of Hollywood stars over the decades – but sometimes the brightest ones shone much closer to home.
@Palerider , I needed to hear this today. After a couple of weepy days it has calmed my soul. Thank you.
I think many of us have weepy days -more than we often like to admit to. Mine is nearly always driving back from the care home -music is such an amazing form of expression, we don't need to utter anything, just listen and align ourselves with the music.
Just saw your post. I can't explain why I love chant so much, I just do. Lived experiences of music are wonderful when just caught by surprise we hear something...
It’s funny how those are the moments we remember most and with affection.
I was in Oaxaca in Mexico and visited the church early one morning to find that an elderly lady was on her knees at the altar. Not wishing to disturb her, I wandered quietly round the back of the church for a few minutes and I don’t think she had any idea that I was there. She finally stood and placing her hands in the prayer position, she started to sing. She had a very strong voice and simply sang her heart out. Obviously, she was in harmony and at peace with her lord.
Chants do something that I can’t think of any other music that has the same factor. There is no need to understand the words and for non Christian folk, they are not necessarily relevant. But it is the beautiful cadences, the gentle ebb and flow that reach parts of our psyche that connect us to that response. Chants don’t rely on changes in tempo which I think has a calming effect and they don’t need drama to make their purpose understood.
