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One song a day, the moment when humans become most human.
How to Make Music Your Ally 366

Living like a human being is often difficult for humans, and when faced with absurd incidents and accidents, there are times when we even want to give up on our humanity.
This book tells you to close the door and press play right away.
The 'door' could be a real door or a metaphorical door.
Let's focus only on the music and my emotions for a short period of 1-2 minutes, or a long period of up to 20 minutes.
And let's read the story behind that music.
This short time of listening to music and reading a story becomes a very solid time that no one can disturb.
It's my own time to protect myself from life's passing and from the scars that will become worse.
If you're lucky, you might be completely healed by just one song you listen to today.
This book, which condenses 366 different pieces of music and stories, ultimately speaks to the wonder of our human nature: to create music, listen to it, feel it, and share that feeling.
The goal of this book is to reach deep into the reader's heart, to light a fire, and to embrace any heart that may be wounded.
The author uses music as a medium.
And it says this:
This book says that music is “an eternal flame that lights up the human heart.”


“This book was written while learning how to walk and talk.”
The music that gave us joy, now it's power.

This book is the sequel to "1 Classic, 1 Joy a Day," which presented precious music to classical music lovers around the world and a new world of music to beginners. It contains 366 new music lists and music stories, as well as a special "power" never before seen.
Following the huge success of her previous work, author Clemency Burton-Hill has been proudly watching the message she sought to convey in her book—her belief that "everyone can enjoy classical music"—work its magic on a personal level.
Clemency, grateful to his readers around the world, immediately began writing a follow-up.
As some time passed and the first draft of this book was almost complete, something completely unexpected happened to him.
He collapsed from acute cerebral hemorrhage and fell into a coma for 17 days.
After regaining consciousness, he realizes that he has lost his speech and motor skills.
It was a devastating loss for him, a writer and broadcaster.
Moreover, due to the COVID-19 pandemic at the time, she was unable to meet her friends, husband, or children, and had to receive treatment alone.
What stayed with him through those long years of suffering and isolation was music.
He leaned more on music and became more attached to it than before.
I listened to music as if I was taking medicine and doing rehabilitation exercises.
Dr. Kellner, who treated him, says that music helped him a lot in his treatment.
Perhaps that is why this book feels like it has a strong ‘power of music.’
This work goes a step further than the previous work's message that music connects people and makes every day special, and talks about how music can change our lives.
This book was written while learning how to walk and talk.
It's as if the book is saying that making and listening to music is on par with the human ability to walk, read, and speak.

A novel cocktail that encompasses both well-known masterpieces and the fringes of the "classic" spectrum.
A 366-day festival-like setlist for music lovers

There are several prejudices that come to mind when we say 'classical music'.
There is a prejudice that it is a genre reserved for geniuses who can compose music from the age of five and master advanced piano skills by the age of seven, an art form that seems beyond the reach of ordinary people.
This genre also seems to be the refined taste of European white men, and it is an art form that should be enjoyed with formality and etiquette in a glittering concert hall.

But this book says:
“Music is music.” Not something special, music is just music.
The thrilling sound of a bell signaling the end of class, a mysterious melody hummed while getting ready for work, a song everyone sings together on a friend's birthday, a tear-jerking ballad heard after a breakup.
The music around us is no different from 'classical music'.
Also, the people who created 'classical music' lived lives not much different from ours.
It's music made by 'real' people like us who go to school, meet friends, fight with family, break up with lovers and cry, get good jobs and get fired again.
This book focuses on the most human aspects of composers we often think of as 'great'.
As a result, the story naturally shifts away from being centered around white European men.
Of course, the book delves into the works of composers we know so well—Bach, Mozart, Beethoven—who are truly great and need no further explanation, but at the same time, it strives to give equal voice to the gems we've lost: women, non-white, disabled, and LGBTQ+ composers.
It also contains the question of what constitutes true 'classical music'.
It includes not only movie soundtracks and television series theme songs, but also small prop music.
It's as if they're breaking down the boundaries of the genre called 'classical music' set by purists and dancing on top of it.
This book is like a festival for people who love music.
To enjoy this festival, you only need to remember one thing.
“Music is music.”