What is this about?

 Hello, and welcome to my blog! This post just explains what this series will be about and what you can expect as a visitor to this website. 

Firstly, the title - Worldline is a concept in relativistic physics, which, simply put, is just the path traced by an object in both space and time. Surprisingly, a similar path analogy is also found in Robert Jordan's seminal high fantasy series The Wheel of Time, in which a human's lifespan is a thread weaved into a great pattern by the "wheel of time". So, by melodious worldlines, I will be focusing on the lives of people who contributed to various melodious structures in their lifetime. 

Now, for the origin of this blog. A few months back, a close friend of mine suggested that I should write about my experience with Western classical music and share what I feel and interpret various compositions to be. Well, I started this blog with the same intention, but what happened was, due to my own worldline, I got a chance to attend some pedagogical talks by Dr Cavas Bilmoria at the National Centre for Performing Arts (NCPA), Mumbai. Getting exposed to the cultural context of the compositions made me feel like I was missing out on the musical interpretations if I did not know about the composer himself and the context in which he made such amazing pieces. 

This led me into a rabbit hole of encyclopedias and music history, which slowly and slowly connected a lot of threads and gave a broader picture of the historical context behind the musical pieces. Hence, this blog is a way to share the excitement I felt by knowing about who the composers are with others all over the world. There might be various composers who are relatively "unheard" of, but their lives are very interesting to know about. Additionally, I write a sister blog Contextual Critiques, which is focused more on particular compositions and goes into a certain depth. 

I would like to point out that I am not a music academician by profession, and this blog is a culmination of my own personal research. I have tried to cite every source I follow. There might be some discrepancies, which I would be happy to learn about and correct. Additionally, the frequency for new posts is not fixed but I shall try to release at least one post every month or two, and hope that I remain consistent. Lastly hopefully fellow aficionados benefit from this and maybe learn something new or offer me some new learnings through interactions.


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