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Chopin is true to the water nature of the ruler of his sign. He wished all of his compositions to be played with a rocking, undulatory motion, simulating the rippling movement of water. Liszt wrote: | Chopin is true to the water nature of the ruler of his sign. He wished all of his compositions to be played with a rocking, undulatory motion, simulating the rippling movement of water. Liszt wrote: | ||
<blockquote>By his peculiar style of playing, Chopin imparted with most fascinating effect a constant rocking, making the melody to undulate to and fro like a skiff driven over the bosom of tossing waves. This manner of execution, which set so peculiar a seal upon his own style of performance, was first indicated by the words ''Tempo rubato'' affixed to his works; a ''tempo'' broken, agitated, interrupted.<ref>Franz Liszt, ''Life of Chopin'', quoted in Henry T. Finck, ''Success in Music and How It Is Won (New York: Charles Scribner’s, 1909), p. 270.</ref></blockquote> | <blockquote>By his peculiar style of playing, Chopin imparted with most fascinating effect a constant rocking, making the melody to undulate to and fro like a skiff driven over the bosom of tossing waves. This manner of execution, which set so peculiar a seal upon his own style of performance, was first indicated by the words ''Tempo rubato'' affixed to his works; a ''tempo'' broken, agitated, interrupted.<ref>Franz Liszt, ''Life of Chopin'', quoted in Henry T. Finck, ''Success in Music and How It Is Won'' (New York: Charles Scribner’s, 1909), p. 270.</ref></blockquote> | ||
The music of Chopin flows to the movement of water, and also to the color, an azure blue, which, it has been said, is the spirit’s compensation for sorrow. When we think of Pisces we must always remember that it marks the total sacrifice, the total surrender in the Garden of Gethsemane. And so the true Piscean knows the way of Gethsemane, the way of the [[fourteen stations of the cross]]. And so Pisces has been called the sign of sorrow. But it is not sorrow that endures, only for a night and joy cometh in the morning. | The music of Chopin flows to the movement of water, and also to the color, an azure blue, which, it has been said, is the spirit’s compensation for sorrow. When we think of Pisces we must always remember that it marks the total sacrifice, the total surrender in the Garden of Gethsemane. And so the true Piscean knows the way of Gethsemane, the way of the [[fourteen stations of the cross]]. And so Pisces has been called the sign of sorrow. But it is not sorrow that endures, only for a night and joy cometh in the morning. | ||