Where Everything Is Music
Where Everything Is Music is a song with music by Philip Glass and lyrics by Jalal ad-Din ar-Rumi . The song is part of the opera Monsters of Grace by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson .
Musical design
The song was designed by Philip Glass so that the instrumentation mimicked the string and woodwind instruments of the Middle East. Four voices are singing.
text
The translation of Rumi's text is by Coleman Barks . The first few lines are:
"Don't worry about saving these songs!
And if one of our instruments breaks,
it doesn't matter.
We have fallen into the place
where everything is music.
The strumming and the flute notes
rise into the atmosphere,
and even if the whole world's harp
should burn up, there will still be
hidden instruments playing. "
Web links
- GlassPages Lyrics: Monsters of Grace , full lyrics of Monsters of Grace; the text of this song can be found at the beginning of the page.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Stephen Eddins: Philip Glass: Monsters of Grace. Retrieved June 10, 2013 .
- ↑ Mei-ling Cheng: Monsters of Grace 1.0: A Digital Opera in Three Dimensions (review). (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 23, 2015 ; Retrieved June 10, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b GlassPages Lyrics: Monsters of Grace. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 5, 2013 ; Retrieved June 10, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
