What kind of music do you listen to when writing poetry?

Question

Feelin’ silly

by C.S. Scotkin

Have you had your Bach against the wall?

Have you been Handel’d with care?

been to the Mozarty gallery in town?

Purcell phone? Get one, if you dare!

Have you worn a Scarlatti letter?

Are you Hayden in a closet?

Been in Salieri confinement?

Did you Pachelbel in a pocket?

I like the classics, I do!

Answer 1

I write my words,

To the sax of the Bird.

I find it helpsey

If I listen to Gellepsy.

Haha, just didn't work for me, I like Jazz, but I also like Bob Dylan and the Dead Kennedy's just depends on what mood I'm in.

Answer 2

Verdi good Cynthia. It's like a Liszt of musical "who's who" isn't it? That's what Franz are for I guess. Scored well. On a scale of 1-5 - make that a big 5!

Very funny Grasshopper, I have taught you the Way of the Pun well - please walk over the rice paper without breaking it and select your toy prize from the 3rd shelf. (try saying the above in the accent of James Earl Jones. It seems to work)

No music for me, just what melodies crop up in my frontal lobe++. Although I do suffer awful tinnitus, so the "Squealing Cicadas Symphony in E Major by Crikey" is always there.

**"And the rhythm of life

Is a powerful beat

Puts a tingle in your fingers

Tingle in your feet

Rhythm in the bedroom

Rhythm in the street

Yes the Rhythm of Life

Is a power beat." ** (clap-clap)

Answer 3

Because I only write about sadness, I listen to music that has got the same feel, that I am writing. If I want to write about broken hearts, than Leona Lewis, and bleeding love is a good one to go with.

Answer 4

Wow....this is clever...I love it.

Of course, you have to be eddicated (sic) in music  to create a poem naming names like this.

I can't listen to music and write poetry - it interferes with the voices in my head (well, that's a lie, I haven't any voices...I just felt like writing that)  No it interferes with the rhythms in my head.

But, I love music....loud, with a strong beat, and an uplifting sound.  My all-time favourite group is Arcade Fire....come on guys produce another album, I'm getting a littttttle tired of playing your three CDs.

Queen acts all regal and proud

The Stones are hewn from slate.

The Beatles' eight legs scuttle

But,

Arcade Fire conflagrate

Answer 5

Of them all, I prefer Mozart.  Needed a laugh tonight and you gave me one with this "silly" pome.

Answer 6

It is interesting that Mozart is the newest composer you mentioned here; so many people look forward at music history from Beethoven.  I find orchestral music is too much while writing.  I can listen to Chopin, but not Liszt, nor Schubert's piano music, nor Debussy.  Among Mozart, mainly pieces nobody listens to, like the piano fantasies (C minor and D minor), the adagio-fugue pairs (strange... also C minor and D minor).  I can't really listen to Bach, except perhaps Glenn Gould's Kunst der Fuge.  I can sometimes listen to Beethoven string quartets.  Clementi, Scarlatti, and Burgmuller are staples.  I have been listening to Godowski's studies on Chopin's etudes lately; that might explain some of the recent atrocities in my poetry attempts.

The worst discovery I made was that T.S. Eliot's `Macavity the Mystery Cat' can be set to Beethoven's Grosse Fuge.

Answer 7

De bus sey you I should!  Funny.  Almost like "Classical Gas!"

Answer 8

"The Sounds of Silence". When I write Poetry- I like it to be as QUIET as Possible- so I can "hear" that "wee small voice" that speaks VOLUMES for how I feel... -so I can set it down to Paper.  :)

Answer 9

the 'poetry' that im doing happens everywhere it seems.

i think its the happenings around that

do it for me. i never plan it.

except lately

just try to find a place to write it down

for here.

except i do say

lets listen to some music!

or be stuck with me.

hahaha!

Answer 10

That is very sweet, thanks for sharing.

Maybe I should change the music I listen to while writing my poetic thoughts; I listen to R&B, or no music at all.

Now that you mention mozart, I realized, I never really paid mind to classical music, maybe I should give it a try.

Do you have a link you can share?

Answer 11

I like your poem and your composers.

Tchaikovski's `1812 Overture`

Wagner's `Flight of the Valkyries`

Beethoven's `Fifth Symphony'

About anything by Enya

The Beach Boys

The Ventures

Walter Murphy `Fifth of Beethoven`

Bluegrass

Country

Buddy Holly

Shucks, I even listen the Liberace.  If it's music, I like it, if it's noise, the devil can take it.

Music should be enjoyed, not endured.

Answer 12

anything really....singers who sing lyrics tend to interefere with my thought process when writing a poem.....so anything classical with orchestra is my preference.