More With Music

As we listened to the song in class it reminded me of some song out of a Disney movie. The song was hard to understand with no lyrics, but when I listened to it an immediate story popped into my head. In my opinion I thought that the song was about two people meeting each other at sometime in their lives. How the two are uneasy at first about their friendship/relationship, and then through time fall in love. They go on adventures and find different things along their way, some things amazing and worth their time, others scary or just not fun at all. In all they are on the adventure together which makes them happier. I saw in that song, from the beginning, what became a love story. They meat each other and end up falling in love!
The song has ups and downs, it gets louder at times and quiet in other parts. I felt that those sounds and those ups and downs are what create that picture or story in a persons head. The way it has the high (happy) pitches to low(sad) pitches goes to show that there is emotion in it, its just up to the audience to decide what that emotion is and create it into a story. If you analyze any orchestral song with no lyrics, it pretty much leaves it up to the audience what the story is about unless that song is used for a movie or has a story behind it. For example, in "Fantasia" it has some talking in it but it is mostly a musical with pictures to back it up with. But most of those songs in the movie are geared towards the adult crowd and Disney production played those songs in the movie the right way to get children attracted to music without lyrics. I think that movie was made to get kids thinking more creative, to get them thinking more about the music than the lyrics and their own opinions on the stories