Showing posts with label hallelujah. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hallelujah. Show all posts

Monday, December 13, 2010

Do you get chills and goosebumps listening to certain music?

For those born with a hearing loss or those who lost some of their hearing very early in life, I am wondering whether hard of hearing or deaf people get chills and goosebumps whenever a certain music is played. A research article came out recently that discussed why some people get chills and goosebumps whenever they listen to a particular genre of music.  Do you get chills and goosebumps from listening to a certain music?

I get chills from listening to certain kind of music that comes with singing, especially with a chorus along with certain instruments that help deliver an additional emotional energy to it all. One good example of chills I get every time I listen to is the Hallelujah! chorus music. Recently a Hallelujah! flash mob took place at a mall last month. It was recorded and put onYouTube where it has gone spectacularly viral with over 18 million views (see below) since November 17, 2010. For me on the voices it depends on the vocal texture, vocal timbre, and vocal transition points like breaks, lifts and falls can certainly hit me and give me goosebumps. Hallelujah! is one of those pieces when the chorus is done right with the music will give goosebumps. But then there's another component to this Hallelujah! that brings more "inspirational chills" and that's the message behind the song.



Hallelujah (Aleluya)
Written by George Friedrich Handel

Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah
Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah

For the lord God omnipotent reigneth
Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah
For the lord God omnipotent reigneth
Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah
For the lord God omnipotent reigneth
Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah

Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah
Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah
(For the lord God omnipotent reigneth)
Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah

For the lord God omnipotent reigneth
(Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah)
Hallelujah

The kingdom of this world;
is become
the kingdom of our Lord,
and of His Christ
and of His Christ

And He shall reign for ever and ever
And he shall reign forever and ever
And he shall reign forever and ever
And he shall reign forever and ever

King of kings forever and ever hallelujah hallelujah
and lord of lords forever and ever hallelujah hallelujah
King of kings forever and ever hallelujah hallelujah
and lord of lords forever and ever hallelujah hallelujah
King of kings forever and ever hallelujah hallelujah
and lord of lords
King of kings and lord of lords

And he shall reign
And he shall reign
And he shall reign
He shall reign
And he shall reign forever and ever

King of kings forever and ever
and lord of lords hallelujah hallelujah
And he shall reign forever and ever

King of kings and lord of lords
King of kings and lord of lords
And he shall reign forever and ever

Forever and ever and ever and ever
(King of kings and lord of lords)

Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah
Hallelujah