It seems that love and loss provide the point and counterpoint of a symphony
whose first movement sets the colour and feeling tone of all that is to come.
Succeeding movements introduce new themes, which may challenge, replace or
develop the earlier themes, but cannot wipe them out. Order alternates with
chaos as the music of life progresses and the whole moves towards some kind of
resolution that, in great music is always unexpected, subtle and deeply moving.
The greatest music… is the saddest, and its greatness stems from the emergence
of meaning out of discord, loss and pain. The sublime, in music as in life, reflects
the human search for meaning, the grasping at eternity, the transcendence of the
littleness of I (Parks, 2009, p. 278)
