Heart Beats

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Explorations of Love

Marguerite Blessington (1789-1849) remarked that "Love is, I think, like fever; one severe attack leaves the patient subject to relapses through youth, and each succeeding one renders him more weakened, and consequently, more exposed in future assaults."

If you have the 'Valentine Spirit' this is the right place to come. We explore various kinds of love here. Some of these are in a musical format and are tune suggestions. One selection is an original lyric debuted here for the first time and it awaits a musical accompaniment. You can find a Love Boat cruise on this page and view a romantic Irish Abbey and also listen to some music by an Italian ballader. By the way, this page is totally appropriate for office viewing.

Let us know what your favorite 'Heart' song is in the visitor log.

  • Chivalric Love

  • Exponential Love

  • Rock-n-roll Love

  • Crooner Love

  • Muskrat Love

  • Love on the Water

  • Love in Ireland

  • Jazzy Love

  • HipHop Love

  • Cardiac Love


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Chivalric Love

When Knighthood was in Flower

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Courtly love is a practice among the nobility that developed from around the time of the First Crusade. It began in the courts of Aquitaine,Provence,Champagne and Burgundy. It was a way of expressing love and admiration outside of marriage and was promoted by the troubadors who exalted this ideal.

The lady was wooed under strict etiquette rules and a knight might wear the colors of his lady or carry a token from her. Sometimes men would fall in love with distant women they had never seen after hearing them described. (Maybe this was a precursor to online dating, who knows).

Check out the tune under Chivalrous Love (Castle of Arthur album) on this page to get the flavor of the era.

Exponential Love

When the Consequences of Love are physically overwhelming!

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Hello. My name is Parker and you see I am a rabbit

My species sometimes takes a bad rap for overmultiplying.
We are talked about in math classes to show how South Australia was once overrun with rabbits.
When there aren't predators to eat us and when we have enough resources and we don't die quickly.our population can follow an exponential growth model. (A complete story with the equations about bunny love is available in PDF format on The Tale of 2 Rabbits.)

I myself am monogamous and have a girffriend named Lucia. She is a rabbit, of course. I see her only by long distance commuting so I personally am not going to be a population bomb and have 722 descendants in a mere two years. I am a bachelor and am busy providing for my employees. I have my own page describing my CEO activities on The Naming of the Animals. I talk at length(in fact, I never shut up!) about all my animal employees - with fur and feathers and fins.


I listen to the Muskrat Love Song and when I have trouble relaxing I play the hip-hop

Lucia always says: Life is just a ballotin of chocolates

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Parker says his animal spirits rise whenever she meets him in baggage claim after his flight from LAX to PDX. Lucia (after the hotel nearby of the same name) will tell you that 'dating Parker is the closest thing to being a Cinderella'. (My god! Is that Sees upon her face?)



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Crooner Love - The Heart Throbs

Original and Contemporary

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Crooning is a vocal form with an intimate and soft singing style.
It is associated with:

  • the use of a microphone

  • the advent of the recording industry

  • the presence of an orchestra behind the voice

  • the reliance on the talent of the male singer

  • Original crooners are Frank Sinatra,Bing Crosby,Perry Como,Paul Anka,Bobby Darin,Tony Bennett,Julius La Rosa,Louis Prima, and Andy Williams.
    Some musicians continuing a crooning style are Harry Connick Jr and Barry Manilow.

    Dean Martin happens to deliver food and love and Italy all in one song - That's amore!

    Crooner Demonstration

    Bobby Darin signs Artificial Flowers
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    Italian Crooner circa 2012

    Enjoy the emotional vocal ballads

    Love in Ireland

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    The perfect place to listen to 'Give Me Your Hand' is Kylemore Abbey in Connemara

    Amazon Love & Heart Tunes

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    Amazon Romantic Tunes

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    Cardiac Love

    A Lyric in Search of Music


    One hundred thousand times a day
    My heart beats for you.
    Why the heart loves,
    I haven't a clue.

    The four chambers move my blood
    But it's not just a pump.
    Because the sight of you
    Makes my heart jump.

    EKG's and pacemakers
    Help keep a heart going
    But love's the CPR
    That makes the best showing.

    I have a heart question
    I ask it in jest.
    If loving you was a crime
    would I get a cardiac arrest?

    If you wish to see a real beating heart, be our guest.

    Amazon - Love Your Heart by exercising with this

    Cardiac Love

    (over 133 customer reviews)
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    More Music and Other Matters of the Heart You May Enjoy

    Links to more love themes

    Piano Bar
    Indie tunes
    reviewed by Squidoo arncyn
    Am I In Love?
    Outstanding lens covers what the ancients said about love; famous lovers; signs that you are in love; Love advice; how to Love Your Wife; and How to Love Your Husband.
    The Jazz Age Lens
    References the Roaring Twenties,Flappers, Writers of the Jazz Age, Louis Armstrong, Ballroom Dancers, Vaudeville Performers, Sophie Tucker, Josephine Baker and M O R E

    And we can't forget to mention these....

    (cover below courtesy of University of Oregon Historic Sheet Music collection)

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    Young at Heart
    Heartbreak Hotel
    Don't Go Breakin' My Heart
    Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
    How Can You Mend a Broken Heart? Achy Breaky Heart

    Guestbook Comments - Name Your Love Song

    Reader Inputs on the Music

    Many of the songs here have 'love' or 'heart' in them.
    Maybe you have a favorite song you like to play when you are thinking about your significant other. Maybe you would like to tell us what it is...

    • bikerministry Feb 10, 2012 @ 8:07 am | delete
      "Did I ever tell you you're my hero?" He's so humble it embarrasses him when I play this song, but he is my hero, so I use the song to honor him. Blessings.
    • Mark Gascoigne Oct 15, 2011 @ 7:18 pm | delete
      Wow! after scanning this lens I was really pumped! Lots of great musical references. I'm a little surprised that there were no chamber music references.

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    This stars Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson in a story about the break up of a marriage. A 'Burn', not a 'Beat'.

    Love Song Singers - a DVD 

    Heart Throbs of their Era