Step 05: I colori nella musica

I colori nella musica
I colori, benché possano essere percepiti attraverso il senso della vista, a mia sorpresa, vengono percepiti anche attraverso il senso dell' udito. Difatti, tantissimi cantautori hanno enucleato i testi delle loro canzoni a partire da una simbologia collegata ad un determinato colore.

Anche il colore terra di Siena trova un suo posto nella musica e addirittura in vari generi.

Uno di questi generi è la musica degli anni '60 che tende ad unire la musica folk e quella gospel. Questo genere è ben interpretato dal brano ' I don't Know ' composta dalla cantautrice statunitense Carole King

I don't know

I don't know if it's hot in Texas
And I don't know if it's cold in Hell
I don't know if God is watching
I just know that I love you 

People say "bad man's gonna getcha''    La gente dice " l' uomo cattivo è arrivato''

Trade my shoes for a simple soul            Baratto le mie scarpe per un'anima semplice

Throw away your burnt sienna                 Buttate via la vostra terra di Siena bruciata

Cause I just know that I love you             Solo perché io vi amo

Sticks and stones get gone in a hurry
Jack say "Jill, you never looked so fine"
Dancing on Boardwalk, what me worry?
As long as I know you're mine, all mine 
All mine, all mine
You're mine

[Chorus] 
I don't know, I don't know,
I don't know, I don't know

And if everybody had someone to care about
What a world, what a world
What a wonderful, wonderful world this would be

I don't care who's in the World Series
Or who does what in their own bedroom
News is blues and it doesn't really matter
I just know that, I just know that I love you

[Chorus]

I just know that I love you

Un altro genere musicale in cui troviamo il colore terra di siena è 'A bolt of blazing gold',

composta da un gruppo svedese di metal rock

A bolt of blazing gold

   A bolt of blazing gold,

Lifted from the horizon's edge
Another radiant dawn sends new hope,
Avowed my hearty pledge

My yearning to be part
Of nature's truthful solitude
Of wisdom's inner light
That shines in mystic multitude

The guiding source within,
So few of us will ever know
And few will ever climb
The great world-tree from which we've grown

But those who seek will find
The rhythm that vibrates high and far
And rearrange the cosmic threads,
The pattern of the Weave of Stars

A bolt of blazing gold,
A sunfire in zenith hurled
Oh, wingless skydancer,
Rejoiced upon the warmth unfurled

What wonders do you hold ensnared
With your mighty heart?
What secrets may be mine
To brother-share as we depart?

Of richest emerald forged,
My soul still rises, longingly
From inferno's winding caverns,
Through dark air soaring, restlessly

If silence was enough!
No words can grasp my starkest thoughts
No language known to man
Portrays my naked sentiment

A bolt of blazing gold,
Swallowed by the waveless sea
The ocean-winds set sail,
In breeze towards their destiny

On solarbeams they rode,                        

White sea-gull-wings in harmony
For a moment's startling glimpse
A sienna-burnt tranquility

       
White sea-gull-wings in harmony
For a moment's startling glimpse
A sienna-burnt tranquility

Oh father of the coloured sky,
Unwear thy robe of shadowhood
Let nature's soul once clash again
'Neath blooming glades of goldenwood

We're the ones who seek
To dance to fallen serenades
The magic hymns of gold;
As softly sung, the sunlight fades away

Of richest emerald forged,
My soul still rises, longingly
From inferno's winding caverns,
Through dark air soaring, restlessly

If silence was enough!
No words can grasp my starkest thoughts
No language known to man
Portrays my naked sentiment

A world of silent stone,
As frozen in the nightly sky
In heaven's dark recesses laid,
No living soul draws night

For seconds all is still,
No moonlight heaves throughout the dark
Nor do the heavens breathe,
No dryads wreathe within the dark

Within my dark domain

Nonostante  i due brani appartengano a generi diversi, essi danno alla terra di siena

un significato molto simile, ossia un elemento della natura