If you were on your death bed, be it illness, old age and knew death was near what music do you think would be good to leave this world listening to..
I would choose chaikovsky's swan lake.. beautiful piece of music..
2006-08-02 13:19:28 · 42 answers · asked by maidenrocks 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
oh and I know I left off the T at the beginning of the composers name.. blonde moment lol
2006-08-03 02:04:50 · update #1
I guess it will have to be 'Comfortably numb' by Pink Floyd
2006-08-02 13:28:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
I've known the answer to this question for a very long time.
I would like very much to hear Gustav Mahler's Eighth Symphony, sometimes called the Symphony of One Thousand for the number of musicians and voices needed to perfom it.
Mahler's Eighth heralds all the beauty and drama of the world and man, and he composed it when he was acutely in tune with his own mortality, having recently lost his four year old daughter and sure that he himself was coming to the end of his days.
Thus, he poured his deep love of the world that he felt he would be leaving soon into this beautiful symphony.
hearing the Eighth, knowing it was composed by Mahler when he was certain his life was closing, makes me feel it deeply, and I experience the world he so brilliantly wove into the symphony for the thousand, the music of the spheres.
2006-08-02 15:45:27 · answer #2 · answered by no one here 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Appalachian Spring (Aaron Copeland)
Water Music (Handel)
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (Bach)
"Will the Circle Be Unbroken" (several versions)
"Box of Rain" (Grateful Dead, album American Beauty)
"The Long and Winding Road" (Beatles)
"Across the Universe" (Lennon)
"Genesis" (Jorma Kaukonan)
"Old Friends" (Simon and Garfunkel)
"Songs to Aging Children Come" (Joni Mitchell)
"The Circle Game" (Joni Mitchell)
Well, that's a few...
2006-08-02 17:16:08 · answer #3 · answered by Bender 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Either Blind Willie Johnson's "Lord I just can't keep from crying" or "Mozart's Requiem"
Both of the above choices are infinately more relevent and musically superior than 98 per cent of the other answers given. Some people should be arrested by the music police.
2006-08-03 02:31:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Amazing Grace
2006-08-02 13:22:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A warm place by Nin Inch Nails
One of the most beautiful pieces of music.
2006-08-02 15:46:43 · answer #6 · answered by Rob G 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I forgot the name of the artist but I would choose the song titled "I'm alright(don't nobody worry 'bout me)", ever since I saw caddy shack I can't get that image of the gofer dancing to the song. And being on my death bed and all I would want something that could bring a smile to mine and those around me's faces.
2006-08-02 13:23:31 · answer #7 · answered by 50fifty 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
'Beim Schlafengehen' ('Falling Asleep') from Richard Strauss' 'Four Last Songs', sung by Elizabeth Schwarzkopf. Fades away into quiet, with a solo flute rippling, as if like a bird flying away. Just too beautiful for words.
2006-08-02 13:41:47 · answer #8 · answered by so_it_goes_2512 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the death march. had 2 be
2006-08-02 20:07:50 · answer #9 · answered by motown 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would like one last ego-boost, so I'd choose "Why so silent, good monsieurs?" from the phantom of the opera. The scene when he's going down the stares right after Masquerade.
2006-08-02 13:25:25 · answer #10 · answered by M'lady 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good music generally are good to everybody, but if the old people are at pain terminal moment, I wonder it will be sufficient energy ho listen to any thing.
Just in movies we see this.
2006-08-02 13:37:57 · answer #11 · answered by Fodunciu 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋