XPost: alt.usage.english, alt.music
On 6/1/2024 4:50 PM, Ross Clark wrote:
Estabished 2006 by "a group of people in South Carolina".
"The prime mover was Mitch Carnell, president of the Charleston Speech
and Hearing Center, and the author of several books on communication, including _Say Something Nice: Be a Lifter @ Work_ (2012). Other supporters...included the South Baptist Convention and the Charleston-Atlantic Presbytery, and the day was officially proclaimed by
the mayor of North Charleston."
Not much uptake in the rest of the world, apparently.
Crystal comments on the word "lifter" in this sense.
First recorded usage:
But thou, O Lord, art my defender : thou art my worship, and the lifter
up of my head." (Psalm 3:3, Coverdale translation, 1535)
Some 17th century writer says that music is "a lifter of Dead, Drowsie
and Melancholly Spirits."
( in FW, June is [the lounger] )
in today's Am.English... "a Lifter-Upper" as in [a Picker-Upper]
but Music is so sweet when it has a dying fall ???
Dying fall: This refers to a musical phrase that fades away
gradually in volume and pitch, often at the end of a section.
Sweetness of the music: Orsino finds the music particularly
beautiful when it has this dying fall. It suggests a sense
of melancholic beauty and emotional depth.
Interpretation:
Orsino is using the music as a metaphor for love. He initially desires a constant flow of love (play on) but then becomes captivated by the
subtle, fading beauty of a specific musical passage (the dying fall).
This could represent a more nuanced and bittersweet experience of love
that resonates with him more than an overwhelming passion.
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