Canon in D

Welcome back to Tea with Liya! Today, I'm playing a classical song by Johannes Pachelbel called "Canon in D." While this song is often played at a marriage ceremony, it's still an excellent piece of music to listen to no matter where you are in your life. One of the interesting things about music is that it can be taken out of context and still sound good. I hope you like listening to this one!


Listen to the song here
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In order to understand a chapter of a book you were reading, you would have to know something about the chapters that came before it. Otherwise, you would start reading and have no idea what was happening. You might be able to infer some things, but in most cases, you wouldn't be able to read the chapter without knowing about the context.

It would also be useful to know something about the circumstances in which the book was written. That would give you an insight into what had influenced it. While that information wouldn't be completely necessary, it would help you understand the book better.

However,  if you're listening to a song like this one, you can "understand" the music without having to know anything else about it. You don't have to know when the song was written, but if you do, that might give you some perspective into the style of music.

You could have a specific event from which you remember this song, but if you don't, you can still connect it to an event that will happen today.

You don't have to know about the framework of harmonies that was used to write the song, but if you do, it might give you a perspective into the patterns used to write music.

You could know how to play the song yourself, but if you don't, you can still enjoy listening to it.

In fact, if everyone knew how to play songs like this one, then no one would have to perform them, would they? You might want to hear how someone else plays the song, but if you simply wanted to hear it another time, you could just play it yourself.

If you already had your own teapot, you wouldn't need to ask anyone to fill your teacup. 

Perhaps there's a good thing that comes out of that, then. If we could all do everything, we wouldn't need anyone's help. So if you have an empty teacup, then I'm here to fill it for you!

~Liya