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The metaphor of breathing and the duty to live

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Having observed both phenomena natural as well as many cultural phenomena, at least so far, none of them escapes the possibility of comparing or equating the breathing cycle, or rather the act of breathing: inhale and exhale, loading and unloading consequent energy, cyclical and occasional variations that make breathing a phenomenon of infinite possibilities.

music on the one hand understood as a cultural phenomenon and the other as a metaphor of a living body does not escape either to the possibility of being matched to the respiratory process. Thus, a musical piece, a musical body, lives, grows and develops and oxidized and dies according to their musical breaths.

The first musical body's respiratory process called Prelude I of The Well-Tempered Clavier by JS Bach I is a normal breathing, quiet, and exemplified on the movement of energy loading and unloading around the breathing process occurs . The harmonies of the first two bars are filled with energizing oxygen the lungs of the Prelude, and the third time and are they full of energy. Poison the body stay there music, so it is necessary to address an energy release process, which occurs until the end of the fourth beat. And if we need to say violent (every need is violence, says Aristotle in his Metaphysics). And if that exhalation musical (harmonic motion from the dominant to the tonic) was necessary, "inhalation was it not equally necessary for the life of the intro? All this reflection on the violent breathing Bach music reminiscent Navigation Log Leopoldo Marechal, in particular the passage in which the Argentine poet asserts that life is not a right but a duty. Bach Prelude do not choose to live, grow, develop, rust, die, should. And the first breath tells a lot about the present and future health of one of the most famous German composer's musical children, how difficult musical son is to say that this is an asthmatic. Nor is a top athlete XXI century, or maybe yes, but not in competition but in contemplative mood, calm, quiet violently (or necessarily alone).